Nasu: Costa RICAN ORCHIDS 117 
Panama, which flowered in the collection of Mr. W. W. Saunders. 
Its detection in the above locality extends its range considerably 
to the north and west of its place of discovery. The flowers in 
our specimens have the sepals and petals more acute and the 
terminal lobe of the lip somewhat narrower than indicated in the 
plate referred to above, but they agree essentially in all the other 
particulars. The hollow at the base of the column, represented 
in the drawing and rather questionably referred to by Reichen- 
bach, is quite manifest in the flowers of the Costa Rican plant. 
The lip, however, has no such hollow at the base, but, on the 
contrary, is noticeably thickened at that point. 
EpIDENDRUM COCHLEATUM L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 1351. 1763 
On trees in humid forest, Santiago, zo. ror. On tree-trunk in 
forest, Turrialba, ”o. 779. Quite widely distributed in tropical 
America, ranging from southern Mexico to Venezuela, and com- 
mon in the West Indies ; also frequent in southern Florida. 
The type locality is the Bahamas. Linnaeus appears to have 
had two things in his species. He gives three citations, as fol- 
lows: Sloane, Jam. 250. pl. 121. f. 2; Catesby, Car. 2: 88. pe. 
88; and Plum. Pl. Am. Icon, f/. 785. f. 2. In his description 
he says: “nectario cordato.”’ This effectually disposes of the 
first citation above, as that figure has a broadly obcordate or 
almost orbicular lip. The plant is figured, moreover, with very 
short round pseudobulbs, and has the sepals and petals repre- 
sented as much broader and of a different shape than those in the 
plant commonly accepted as this species. The flowers are also 
described by Sloane as ‘‘ reddish purple.” One could hardly mis- 
take this figure for what is commonly known as £&. cochleatuim. 
The other two figures cited represent what has been widely 
known as this species, that of Catesby being in color and allow- 
ing of no doubt. The lip is also decidedly cordate, as called for 
by Linnaeus, thus permitting us to retain the common conception 
of this species. Catesby’s plant was from the Bahamas, and 
Plumier gives no origin for his, but cites Catesby’s plate; the 
type locality is thus pretty clearly as indicated above. 
