leaf is missing from the type specimen and only a few 
buds are evident at the apex of the raceme. The floral 
measurements agree with those of the smallest specimens 
we have seen of this species from Florida and the West 
Indies. 
This species is found in Virginia, South Carolina, 
Georgia, Florida, the Bahama Islands and throughout 
the West Indies. 
Cuba: Camagiiey, Caobilla, finca “‘La Ciega,’’ Sept. 2, 1926, 
Acuna 4026 (Tyrer of M. Brittonii, photograph seen); Oriente, Wright 
1696; Santa Clara, western slopes of Mt. Naranjal above San Blas, 
Trinidad Mountains, Smith, Hodgdon & Gonzalez 3244. 
Epidendrum pygmaeum Hooker in Bot. Mag. 60 
(1833) t. 32388. 
Coelogyne ¢ triptera Brongniart in Duperry Voyage 
Coquille Phanerog. (1884) 201, t. 42, fig. A, nee 
Epidendrum tripterum Sm., nee E. tripterum Lindl. 
Epidendrum caespitosum Poeppig & Endlicher Nov. 
Gen. ac Sp. 2 (1838) 1, t. 101. 
Epidendrum uniflorum Lindley in Bot. Reg. 25 (1839) 
Mise. p. 15. 
Epidendrum monanthum Steudel Nomencl. Bot. ed. 
2 (1840) 558. 
Hormidium uniflorum Heynhold Nomencel. Bot. Nach- 
tr. (1841) 880. 
Hormidium pygmaeum Bentham & Hooker filius ex 
Hemsley in Gard. Chron. n.s. 19 (June 1883) 700 and 
in Godman & Salvin Biol. Centr.-Am. Bot. 8 (Nov. 
1883) 218. 
Aulizeum pymaeum ‘‘Ldl.’’ ex Stein Orchideenb. 
(1892) 236, sphalm, in synon. 
Hormidium tripterum Cogniaux in Martius Fl. Bras. 
3, pt. 5 (1898) 29. 
Hormidium pseudo-pygmaeum A. Finet in Bull. Herb. 
Boiss. 7 (1899) 121, t. 3. 
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