NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
lobe, obliquely porrect, 1-2 mm. wide, densely papillose 
on the veins; middle lobe including the slender isthmus 
8-9.5 long, 6-7 mm. wide, suborbicular, margin crenulate, 
obtuse or retuse at the rounded apex, upper surface densely 
papillose to the base of the isthmus. Disc ecallose. Column 
free, 6.5-8.5 mm. long, tinged with purple, on each side 
(in front) prolonged into a triangular erect subacute or 
obtuse lobe. 
This species was originally described by Lindley from 
material collected near Bolanos, Mexico. In 1845 what 
appears to be the same species was published by Achille 
Richard and Galeotti under the name Epidendrum sisy- 
rinchiifolium, the brief description having been drawn from 
a specimen collected in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico. Rep¬ 
resentative material of this Mexican Epidendrum is very 
scarce in herbaria. In addition to the type of E. Ovulum I 
have only seen five other collections: the solitary specimen 
of E. sisyrinchiifolium represented by Galeotti’s 5188 in 
Herb. Mus. Par., two Ghiesbreght specimens from Oaxaca 
also preserved in Herb. Mus. Par., a specimen collected in 
Oaxaca by Conzatti (no. 1447) preserved in the Gray Her¬ 
barium and a Pringle specimen in my herbarium. The 
Pringle specimen was prepared from plants received alive 
from Mexico in December 1905 and cultivated in my green¬ 
houses at North Easton, Mass. In Reichenbach’s Herba¬ 
rium in Vienna there is a colored sketch of Galeotti’s speci¬ 
men apparently made from living material. This is num¬ 
ber 118 of the Galeotti series of drawings. It is accom¬ 
panied by a note which gives the source of the plant as 
Cerro San Felipe, at an altitude of 7000 feet. A note on 
the drawing gives March as the flowering season. 
One of the characteristic peculiarities of E. Ovulum is 
the scaly surface of the labellum, the numerous radiating 
veins being thickly beset with papillose emergences. In 
dried specimens these emergences become flattened and 
suggest the scales of a butterfly wing. 
The original descriptions of the species are inadequate, 
and as there are no published plates wliich set forth the 
specific characters, the above redescription is offered. 
