NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
Mexico, State of Jalisco, Bolanos, Hort. Loddiges 
(Type of E. Ovulum in Herb. Kew. (Lindley Coll.) ): State 
of Oaxaca, Galeotti 5188, 1840. On trees. 7000 feet altitude. 
(Type of E. sisyrinchiifolium in Herb. Mus. Par. (Richard 
Coll.) ); Ghiesbreght 5, 1842. Flowers in March; Ghiesbreght 
s. n., 1842; Cerro San Felipe C. Conzatti 1447, August 13, 
1905: Without localization C.G. Pringle s. n. Living plants 
collected in December 1905. Flowered under cultivation 
at North Easton in July 1907. 
Epidendrum pentotis Reichb. f. in Linnaea 41 
(1876) 81. 
Epidendrum fragrans Sw. var. megalanthum Lindl. 
Fob Orch. Epid. (1853) 39. Epidendrum confusum Rolfe 
in Orch. Rev. 7 (1899) 197. Epidendrum Beyrodtianum 
Schltr. in Orchis 9 (1915) 49, t. 4, figs. 14-21. 
Rolfe based his Epidendrum confusum on the type of 
E. fragrans Sw. var. megalanthum Lindl. which is preserved 
in Lindley’s Herbarium at Kew. The type consists of two 
flowers which Rolfe recognized as the Guatemalan material 
collected by Skinner. In the Orchid Review for June 1908 
(p. 189) he reduced E. confusum, referring it to synonymy 
under E. pentotis Reichb. f. He effected this reduction on 
the evidence furnished by the drawing of a flower, presu¬ 
mably identified by Reichenbach, which is part of the Day 
Collection of drawings preserved at Kew. Rolfe also was 
influenced in arriving at this conclusion by specimens from 
the Glasnevin Botanic Garden which he identified as E. 
pentotis. In the Orchid Review for 1914 he published ad¬ 
ditional notes on the history ofE. pentotis in which he showed 
that the Guatemalan origin of the species rests on substan¬ 
tial evidence through material distributed by John Donnell 
Smith (no. 3499) collected by Heyde and Lux near Santa 
Rosa, in the Department of Santa Rosa, Guatemala, in 
May 1892. At this point in his studies he realized that the 
Brazilian habitat originally given by Reichenbach was 
erroneous or at least in need of confirmation. 
Epidendrum pentotis is represented in Reichenbach’s 
Herbarium at Vienna by about twelve flowers mounted on 
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