Epidendrum Cogniauxii L. O. Williams nom. nov. 
Epidendrum Christa Cogniaux in Urban Symb. An- 
till. 6 (1910) 695, non EH/pidendrum Christi Reichen- 
bach filius, 1876. 
It is with pleasure that this West Indian Epidendrum 
is renamed for Cogniaux who described it originally. 
Grammatophyllum elegans Peichenbach filius in 
yard. Chron. n.s. 18 (1882) 776—Schlechter in Orchis 
9 (1915) 107. 
The plant described from the ‘‘South Sea Islands”’ 
by Reichenbach as Grammatophyllum elegans seems not 
to have been rediscovered until recently. Mr. 4. Meebold 
collected a specimen of Grammatophyllum in Fiji which 
seems to answer the description of the plant given by 
Reichenbach. 
A supplementary description based on the specimen 
in hand may be of interest. The specimen has a single 
leaf and a single flower. 
Leaf elliptic-oblong, acute, about 80 cm. long and 
5.5 em. broad. Sepals about 3 cm. long, 1.5—2 cm. broad. 
Petals about 8 cm. long and 1.5 em. broad. Lip about 
2 cm. long and 2 cm. broad, with a strongly 3-ribbed 
median callus extending from the base to the middle of 
the lip or beyond. 
In my recent account of the orchids of Fiji Gram- 
matophyllum elegans was completely overlooked. 
Fist: Suva, January 1937, Meebold 21954 (in Herb. Bishop Mu- 
seum, Honolulu). 
Dendrobium strongylanthum Reichenbach filius 
in Gard. Chron. n.s. 9 (1878) 462— Hooker filius Fl. Brit. 
India 5 (1890) 716—Krinzlin in Engl. Pflanzenr. LV. 50. 
II. B. 21 (1910) 81. 
This peculiar species of Dendrobium, which was de- 
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