NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
a single sheet. Whether or not these flowers came from 
Minas Geraes, Brazil (Ex horto Lindeniano), the source 
given for the type, one is assisted toward a conception of 
the type by means of a sketch mounted on the same sheet 
with the flowers. On the sketch Reichenbach wrote a 
description which is pretty much the same as that which 
he published in Linnaea. 
In 1915 Rudolf Schlechter proposed a new species, to 
which he gave the name Epidendrum Beyrodtianum. On 
the evidence of Schlechter’s diagnosis and plate published 
in Orchis, and on the evidence of drawings from the type, 
preserved in my herbarium, it would seem that Schlechter’s 
species is conspecific with E. pentotis. It has the elongated 
pseudobulbs characteristic of the Heyde and Lux speci¬ 
mens from Guatemala, and flowers equal in size to those of 
E. pentotis as represented in Reichenbach’s Herbarium. It 
is interesting to note that Schlechter distinguished his 
species, in part, from E. pentotis by means of its longer, 
more slender pseudobulbs, a distinction for which it is diffl- 
cult to discover justification, as Reichenbach did not des¬ 
cribe pseudobulbs or leaves. Furthermore the type speci¬ 
men of E. pentotis consists only of flowers and a sketch. 
Epidendrum propinquum A. Rich. & Gal. in Ann. 
Sci. Nat. ser. 3, 3 (1845) 21. 
Epidendrum lamprocaulon Reichb. f. in Bot. Zeit. 
10 (1852). 
Epidendrum propinquum and E. lamprocaulon were 
described from specimens of Galeotti’s no. 5265. I have 
examined the type material of both species. They agree 
in floral structure, in the elongated floral bracts which 
seem to differentiate them from E. ledifolium A. Rich. & 
Gal., and in habit. 
Epidendrum Rousseauae Schltr. in Beihefte Bot. 
Centralbl. 36, Abt. 2 (1918) 407. 
Epidendrum laterale Rolfe in Orch. Rev. 20 (1912) 
280, 319, nomen tantum; 28 (1920) 160. 
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