ORCHIBACEM 261 



The single specimen which constitutes the type has the habit 

 and appearance of Epipactis repens Crantz. 



Type in hb. Gray, from Sierra de Reyes, alt. 9000 ft., State of 

 Oaxaca, Mexico, November 9, 1894, C. G. Pringle (no. 5837). 



P. VENUSTULUS sp. nov. ; Ames in J. D. Smith PI. Guate- 

 mal. pt. VII., no. 8591 (1905) (nomen). Herba inter minimos 

 generis, 6 cm. alta vel major, glabra. Caulis gracilis, foliosus. 

 Folia lanceolata, acuta, 1-3 cm. longa, 5—10 mm. lata. Petiolas 

 1 cm. longus, vel longior, gracilis, ad basim caulem vaginans. 

 Bractece injlorescentiw densiflorse, racemosae, conspicuse, ovario 

 longiores, inflmse flores interdum excedentes. Flos cum calcare 

 5 mm. longus, albus. Sepala lateralia elliptico-lanceolata, obtusa, 

 1-nervia, 3.5 mm. longa, 1.5 mm. lata. Sepalum dorsale lanceo- 

 latum, obtusum, 1-nervium. Petala lineari-lanceolata, asymmetra, 

 1-nervia, sepalo superiori adhaerentia, 3.5 mm. longa, 1 mm. lata. 

 Labelli lobus terminalis suborbicularis, breviter apiculatus, 1 mm. 

 longus. Saccus 2 mm. longus, valde inflatus. 



The nearest affinity of this species appears to be with P. qicer- 

 ceticola Lindl. 



Type in hb. Ames, from Cubilquitz, Depart. Alta Verapaz, Gua- 

 temala, alt. 350 m., December, 1903, H. von Titer ckheim (no. 

 8591). 



EPIPACTIS Boehmer 



E. DECIPIENS (Hook.) comb. nov. ; S}nranthes decipiens 

 Hooker Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 203, t. 204 (1839) ; Goody era Men- 

 ziesii Lindley Orch. PI. 492 (1840) ; Peramium Menziesii Morong 

 Mem. Torr. Bot. CI. 5: 124 (1894); P. decipiens Piper Contr. 

 U. S. Nat. Herb. (Flora of Washington) 11 : 208 (1906). 



This species was first published and figured by Sir William Jack- 

 son Hooker in Flora Boreali- Americana, as Spiranthes decipiens. 

 Later Lindley assigned the plant to Goodyera, naming it in honor 



