NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
Costa Rica, Curidabad, Hoffmann s. n. [570], May 
1857. (Type in Herb. Reichenbach at Vienna.) 
Salvador, Volcan de San Salvador {1), Salvador Calderon 
684, May 2, 1922. 
Guatemala, Department of Quezaltenango, Jardin 
de San Carlos Miramar, Tonduz Sc Rojas 181, March 19, 
1921. 750 meters altitude. 
Epidendrum luteoroseum A. Rich. & Gal. in Ann. 
Sci. Nat. ser. 3, 3 (1845) 19. 
Epidendrum seriatum Lind/. Fob Orch. Epid. (1853) 59. 
Lindley in his Folia Orchidacea referred Epidendrum 
luteoroseum A. Rich. & Gal. and E. seriatum Lindl. to widely 
separated sections of Epidendrum, the former to Sect. Ency- 
clium, the latter to Sect. Amphiglottium. Nevertheless, they 
are conspecific; E. luteoroseum by priority of publication is 
the name by which the species should be known. Schlechter 
in his list of Central American Orchids (in Beihefte Rot. 
Centralbl. 36, Abt. 2 (1918) ) recognized E. luteoroseum and 
E. seriatum as distinct species, notwithstanding Reichen- 
bach’s illuminating discussion in Saunders’ Refugium Botan- 
icum 2 (1869) sub. t. 90, in which he pointed out that these 
species are conspecific and that E. luteoroseum was the 
earliest name. Reichenbach, it is true, adopted the name 
E. seriatum, but for reasons which modern rules of nomen¬ 
clature do not sanction. “Dr. Lindley,” he wrote, “having 
obtained a garden specimen from J. Bateman, Esq., was 
so unfortunate as to place it in a wrong section, as well as 
to speak of the lip as being linear, an error which arose 
from his specimens not being well pressed. Yet Dr. Lindley 
has well described the inflorescence and the flower, when 
Achille Richard had given such a diagnosis ‘that (Edipus 
himself would not have guessed the plant,’ speaking even 
from glandulae, where there are none. According to our 
principles we have preferred Lindley’s name. We are quite 
disposed to leave to Achille Richard the priority for all 
species not described later by Lindley or by ourselves, and 
we possess now types of nearly all his species.” 
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