NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
with a membranaceous keel. Column slender, about 1.5 
mm. long. 
Plant similar in habit and in the size of the flowers 
to Lepanthes guatemalensis Schltr., from which it differs 
in the lateral sepals being protuberant on the inner margin 
near the base of a caudate tip. 
Guatemala, Department of Alta Verapaz, Ainal, H. v. 
Tuerckheim 967, July 1886. 4500 pp. altitude. (Type in 
U. S. Nat. Herb. No. 814565. Duplicate Type in Herb. 
Ames No. 22852.) 
Epidendrum Chloe Reichb. f. in Bonpl. 4 (1856) 327. 
Epidendrum culmiforme Schltr. in Fedde Report. 10 
(1912) 485. 
The type of this species is preserved in Lindley’s 
Herbarium at the Royal Gardens, Kew. It was collected 
by Skinner in Guatemala. In habit it resembles Epidendrum 
filicaule Lindl. I have compared Epidendrum culmiforme 
Schltr. with Lindley’s specimens without being able to 
detect specific differences. 
Guatemala, Department of Alta Verapaz, Coban, 
H. V. Tuerckheim 804, 1887. 550 meters altitude; (The 
type of E. culmiforme Schltr. is v. Tuerckheim 804 from 
Pansamala.): H. v. Tuerckheim 2489, July 1912. Epiphy- 
tisch im Wald. 1550 meters altitude. 
Epidendrum cnemidophorum Lindl. Fob Orch. 
Epid. (1853) 53. 
Epidendrum affine Reichb. f. in Bonpl. 4 (1856) 327. 
Encyclia affinis Schltr. in Beihefte Bot. Centralbl. 36, Abt. 
2 (1918) 471. 
From my studies it would seem that Epidendrum affine 
Reichb. f. is hardly distinct from E. cnemidophorum Lindl. 
Schlechter in his Kritische Aufzahlung der bisher aus Zen- 
tral-Amerika bekanntgewordenen Orchideen,referred£'pzden- 
drum affine Reichb. f. to Encyclia and proposed the new 
combination Encycfl'a affinis. I have been unable to discover 
on what evidence he relied in making this change, as the 
type of Epidendrum affine Reichb. f. is a representative of 
