seems advisable to give a few additional notes based on 
a photograph of the type which is in the Lindley Her- 
barium at Kew. 
Rhizome relatively slender, sparingly branched, bear- 
ing stems at intervals of 6 to9 em. Stems short, robust, 
simple, arcuate, wholly destitute of pseudobulbs, entirely 
concealed by distichous densely imbricating leaf-sheaths 
(the blades deciduous below), up to 9 cm. long. Leaves 
obtuse to subacute, sessile at the conduplicate base, 
spreading, up to 8.8 cm. long and 8 mm. wide. Flowers 
small, axillary. Dorsal sepal lanceolate or ovate-lanceo- 
late, concave, about 6 mm. long and 3.8 mm. wide. Lat- 
eral sepals oblong-lanceolate or triangular-lanceolate, 
oblique, forming a short rounded mentum. 
‘Peru’? (2), fide Schlechter in Fedde Repert. Beih. 9 (1921) 
166. 
Ecuapor: near Loxa (Type). 
Maxillaria elegantula Po/fe in Kew Bull. (1898) 
196. 
Mawillaria dichroma Rolfe in Kew Bull. (1898) 197. 
Judging by the descriptions of these species supple- 
mented by excellent photographic records in the Ames 
Herbarium of the types, these concepts appear to be 
inseparable. 
Aside from the fact that M. elegantula has sometimes 
a slightly longer scape and floral segments than M.di- 
chroma, the only discrepancy is a slight difference in the 
reported color of the flowers. 
With the appearance of one certain and two probable 
collections of Mawillaria elegantula from Peru, it seems 
advisable to give a few supplementary remarks. 
There appears to be a stout creeping rhizome (not 
mentioned in the description of either concept). The 
pseudobulb (also neither mentioned nor shown in the 
photographs of the types) is narrowly complanate-ellip- 
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