In one Peruvian collection (Weberbauer 6828) refer- 
able to B. seabrum, the leaves appear to vary from ovate- 
lanceolate to ovate in different plants, but the flowers are 
closely similar to those of #7. lowense. 
It therefore seems advisable to consider all of these 
concepts as representing a single variable species. 
The habitat of 7. scabrum was cited as ‘‘rocky moun- 
tains,’ that of J. /owense amid low thickets at 8000 to 
3300 meters altitude, while 27. cardiophyllum was said to 
grow in damp open woods mingled with shrubs at 2600 
to 83000 meters altitude. A Peruvian collection (Macbride 
4887) is cited as growing on a ‘‘wet rocky sphagnum 
slope,’ at about 2700 meters elevation. 
The color of the flowers is given as sulphur yellow to 
clear yellow. 
This species is found in Colombia, Ecuador (type of 
E. lowense) and Peru (type of EH. seabrum and E. cardi- 
ophyllum). 
Epidendrum Scutella Lindley in Bot. Reg. 30 
(1844) Mise. p. 88; Fol. Orch. Epidendrum (1858) p. 
49, no. 154. 
Epidendrum platyoon Schlechter in Fedde Repert. 
Beih. 9 (1921) 91; ex Mansfeld in Fedde Repert. Beih. 
57 (1929) t. 120, nr. 473. 
A photograph of the type specimens of the Ecuadorian 
Epidendrum Scutella from the Lindley Herbarium at 
Kew shows that it includes Weberbauer 4101 which 
Kriinzlin determined as 27. Scutella but which Schlechter 
made the type of the Peruvian 27. platyoon. The only 
notable discrepancies between the concepts are that the 
leaves of 7. Scutella appear to be acute or subacute rather 
than obtusely bilobed, the inflorescences seem to be 8- 
or 4-flowered rather than commonly 1-flowered and the 
lip appears to be subobtuse to acute rather than strongly 
obtuse. 
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