ORCHIDACEAE QUAEDAM AMERICANAE 
Costa Rica, Forets de Nicoya, A. Tonduz 13928, May 
1900. (Type in U. S. Nat. Herb. No. 577906.): Province 
of Cartago, Atirro, J. Donnell Smith s. n., April 1896. 60(X) 
feet altitude. 
Guatemala, Skinner. (Herb. Lindl.) 
Epidendrum icthyphyllum Ames sp. nov. Radices 
crassae. Pseudobulbi validi, basi vaginati, pyriformes. 
Folia elongato-ligulata, coriacea. Scapus elongatus. Flores 
in paniculam ramosam laxam dispositi. Sepala lateralia 
lanceolata, acuta, carnosa. Petala spathulata, subacuta, 
carnosa. Labellum inaequaliter trilobatum; lobis lateral- 
ibus lineari-oblongis, acutis; lobo terminali basi oblongo, 
supra medium subelliptico. Discus inter lobos laterales 
callo elevato ornatus, per medium trinervius. Columna 
apice utrinque lobulata. 
Roots very coarse, up to 3 mm. or more thick, whitish, 
smooth. Pseudobulbs about 8 cm. long, tapering gradually 
upwards, pyriform, clothed at base with several elongated 
sheaths which soon break down into straggling fibres. 
Leaves several, up to 60 cm. or more long, 2.5-3 cm. wide, 
ligulate, tapering gradually to a pointed tip, imbricating 
at base, mid-nerve prominent. Peduncle with the paniculate 
inflorescence as much as 13 dm. long; the branches of the 
panicle obliquely ascending, 1 dm. more or less apart, 
often exceeding 30 cm. in length, subtended by triangular- 
lanceolate concave acute bracts which are 1.5 cm. long. 
Flowers numerous, about 1.5 cm. distant on the slender 
branches of the panicle, subtended by concave acute tri¬ 
angular bracts which are 5-12 mm. long. Pedicel with 
the ovary 2 cm. long in well-developed flowers, smooth, 
very slender. Lateral sepals 1-1.2 cm. long, 3.75-4 mm. 
wide near the middle, lanceolate from a broad base, acute, 
thickened at the tip, fleshy, reddish brown in dried specimens. 
Dorsal sepal 1-1.3 cm. long, narrowly oblanceolate from a 
wide base, obtuse or subacute. Petals 1-1.2 cm. long, 3 
mm. wide above the middle, about 1 mm. wide at base, 
spatulate, subacute, fleshy. Labellum 9-10 mm. long, 
unequally 3-lobed, adnate to the column only at base, fleshy 
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