SCHEDULAE ORCHIDIANAE 
NO. 3 
New or Noteworthy Orchids 
BY 
OAKES AMES 
I N the following pages new or noteworthy orchids re¬ 
ceive attention. With one exception the new species 
are natives of tropical America. Several Central American 
species have been reduced to synonymy after a careful 
examination of type material. 
The arrangement of the genera follows the sequence 
proposed by Pfitzer in Engler and Prantl’s “Die naturlichen 
Pflanzenf amilien. ’ ’ 
Descriptions of new species have been prepared from 
herbarium material. 
Reference is made under Epidendrum luteoroseum A. 
Rich. & Gal. to specimens and drawings of Achille Richard’s 
types which are to be found in H. G. Reichenbach’s Her¬ 
barium in Vienna. These specimens and drawings represent 
some of the Mexican species described by Richard and 
Galeotti in 1845. It would seem that this precious material 
was loaned to Reichenbach by the Museum d’Histoire 
Naturelle of Paris. That Reichenbach intended to return 
this material to those who loaned it to him is indicated by 
the tracings he made from the colored drawings of the habit 
and from the analytical drawings of the floral structure 
of types. The tracings are now mounted on the same 
sheets that bear the drawings, a few of them actually 
superimposed on the originals. The most charitable view 
to take of this extraordinary situation is the one which 
leads us to believe that Reichenbach’s efforts to incorporate 
in his herbarium tracings of Richard’s species were inter¬ 
rupted by death, and that if he had lived he would have 
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