CENTRAL AMERICAN ORCHIDS 
Costa Rica, Peralta, C. H. Lankester & Alfredo Sancho 
378. 1500 feet altitude. (Type in Herb. Ames No. 23726.) 
Epidendrum Porpax Reichb. f. in Bonpl. 3 (1855) 220, 
non Reichb. f. in Flora 48 (1865) 278. 
This species is a native of Panama, Costa Rica, and 
Nicaragua. 
Unfortunately Reichenbach described two distinct 
species under the name Epidendrum Porpax. One of these 
is a native of Cuba, the other one was described from Nica¬ 
raguan material. By an error in bibliographical citation, 
Schlechter, in his enumeration of C. W. Powell’s Panama 
orchids, indicates that the Cuban E. Porpax is a native of 
Central America. The same error occurs in Schlechter’s earlier 
paper entitled “ Kritische Aufzahlung der bisher aus Zen- 
tral-Amerika bekanntgewordenen Orchidaceen,” published 
as a supplement to the Botanischen Centralblatt in 1918. 
For the Cuban species (c/. infra) I have proposed the 
new combination Epidendrum vest it um. 
Epidendrum Sanchoii Ames sp. nov. Herba epi- 
phytica, valde ramosa. Caulis primarius validus, elon- 
gatus; caules secundarii abbreviati, foliosi. Folia linearia, 
coriacea, ad vaginas verruculosas articulata, obtusa. Racemi 
pauciflori, terminales. Rachis valde fractiflexa. Bracteae 
inflorescentiae pedicellum cum ovario aequantes, scariosae. 
Flores virides. Sepala lateralia oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, 
apice conduplicata, carinata. Sepalum dorsale simile. 
Petala linearia, acuta. Labellum simplex, triangulare, sub- 
acutum, apice incrassatum, ecallosum, nervis incrassatis. 
Columna labello adnata, ecornuta. 
Epiphytic herb up to 30 cm. tall, with thickened pri¬ 
mary stem, much branched, fruticose. Secondary branches 
up to 2 cm. long, concealed by the verruculose closely 
oppressed sheaths of the leaves, somewhat compla- 
nate. Leaves 1.5 cm. long, about 2 mm. wide, linear, ob¬ 
tuse or subtruncate at the apex, coriaceous, distichous. 
Racemes terminal on the branches, usually 3-flowered, 
about 1 cm. long, the smooth rachis flexuose. Bracts of the 
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