ORCHIDACEAE QUAEDAM AMERICANAE 
Petals about 6 mm. long, linear-spatulate, hardly .5 mm. 
wide near the tip. Labellum simple, obscurely apiculate, 
adnate to the column, expanded part 3 mm. long, 4 mm. 
wide, transversely elliptical, fleshy, many-nerved, with two 
minute rounded confluent calli at base beneath the summit of 
the column. Column slender, 5 mm. long, anther simple. 
Closely allied to Epidendrum soratae Reichb. f. which 
it resembles in habit, but from which it is distinct in having 
a simple, obscurely apiculate lip. Another difference from 
E. soratae is found in the more slender petals. In E. soratae 
the lip is obscurely 3-lobed above the middle, with the 
middle lobe retuse. Reichenbach’s sketch of the flower of 
Mandon No. 1138 (the type oiE. soratae) plainly shows the 
lobing of the lip which was apparent in the flowers of speci¬ 
mens preserved in Vienna. 
Bolivia, Province of Sacaba, Department of Cocha¬ 
bamba, Steinbach 5926, November 19, 1921. On trees. 
Flowers greenish yellow. Plants .50-1 meter high. 2500 
meters altitude. (Type in the Gray Herbarium. Frag¬ 
ment OF TYPE in Herb. Ames No. 22529.) 
Epidendrum suaveolens Ames sp. nov. Caules ramosi, 
foliosi. Folia elliptico-oblonga. Flores in racemo sublaxo 
dispositi. Sepala ligulata, apice conduplicato-carinata. 
Labellum trilobatum, lobis subaequalibus, lateralibus denti- 
culatis. Columna sectionis. 
Stems several decimeters tall, branching near the 
summit, stout, 8 mm. or more in diameter, leafy. Leaves 
elliptic-oblong, 4-7 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. wide, obtuse, 
coriaceous, 1-3 cm. apart, subdistichous, rigid, mid-nerve 
prominent beneath, soon deciduous from the closely op¬ 
pressed cylindrical rugose sheaths that conceal the stems. 
Peduncle with the raceme 5-6 cm. long, nodding, bearing 
ten or more greenish white very odorous fleshy flowers in a 
rather compact terminal raceme. Floral bracts linear- 
lanceolate, 5-8 mm. long. Pedicel with the ovary 15 mm. 
long, non-scabrous. Flowers about 5 mm. apart. Lateral 
sepals ovate-oblong, 1.5 cm. long, about 6 mm. wide near the 
middle, conspicuously 5-nerved, conduplicate-thickened at 
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