Maxillaria floribunda Lindley in Bentham PI. 
Hartw. (1845) 154. 
In accordance with a photograph of the type of this 
species from the Lindley Herbarium at Kew and witha 
recent collection (Vargas 2650) which seems to be surely 
referable to this concept, certain corrections and amplifi- 
‘ations of the original description appear to be advisable. 
Both the type and the collection show that the leaves 
are elliptic to oblong, rather than ovate-oblong as speci- 
fied. Vargas 2650 also shows a well-defined pseudobulb 
(that of the type specimen is obscure at best) which is 
complanate-ellipsoid, about 8.5 cm. long, unifoliate and 
surrounded by several distichous conduplicate leat-bear- 
ing sheaths. he peduncle in this collection measures 
about 19.5 em. or less long, whereas the description notes 
the scapes as “‘tripollicares,”” signifying 7.6 cm. ‘The se- 
pals and petals appear to be decurved with strongly revo- 
lute sides. The sepals, which are rather short-acuminate, 
are linear-oblong (dorsal) to linear-lanceolate (lateral) and 
about 6.4 em. long and 8 mm. wide. The petals are 
linear-lanceolate and similar to the lateral sepals, but 
much smaller. The relatively small lip appears to be 
subquadrate-oval when expanded and about 1.4 cm. 
long; the lobing seems to be near the apex, the mid-lobe 
is transversely broad-oblong or reniform and retuse, un- 
like that of the pen-drawing on the type sheet which is 
elliptic-ovate. The column is about 7 mm. long, pro- 
duced into a bisulcate foot. 
Cuzco: Prov. of Urubamba, Tuncapata-Santa Rita, at 2800 meters 
altitude, epiphyte in forest, perianth white, March 28, 1942, C. Var- 
gas 2650. 
Maxillaria funicaulis C. Schweinfurth sp. nov. 
Herba robusta, caulescens. Pseudobulbi rari, compla- 
nato-cylindracei, diphylli. Caules vaginis numerosis, dis- 
tichis, conduplicatis, valde imbricatis omnino obtecti. 
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