NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
Epidendrum bicameratum Reichb. f. in Gard. 
Chron. (1871) 1194. 
Epidendrum squalidum Lindl. Fol. Orch. Epid. (1853) 
8, non La Llave & Lex. Epidendrum Karwinskii Reichb. f. 
in Gard. Chron. (1869) 710, non Reichb. f. in Bonpl. 4 (1856) 
327. Encyclium squalidum Lindl. apud Stein Orchideenb. 
(1892) 224, in synon. 
The type specimen was collected by Karwinsky in 
Mexico and given to Lindley by Bateman. It consists of an 
inflorescence. Lindley confused the species with Epiden¬ 
drum squalidum La Llave & Lex. Reichenbach described it 
as a new species under the name E. Karwinskii, unmindful 
of an earlier publication in which he had given the name to 
quite another species. In Reichenbach’s Herbarium there 
is a specimen from Galeotti (No. 5313) which represents 
E. bicameratum. The specimen resembles Lindley’s. It also 
resembles material in the Kew Herbarium which Rolfe 
identified as E. bicameratum. This very interesting and ex¬ 
tremely rare species was omitted without comment from 
Schlechter’s Kritische Aufzahlung der bisher aus Zentral- 
Amerika bekanntgewordenen Orchidaceen. 
Epidendrum bisulcatum Ames sp. nov. Herba epi- 
phytica, valde ramosa, ramis plus minusve elongatis vel ab- 
breviatis, vaginis mox deciduis obtectis. Folia duo (vel 
tria?), approximata, oblonga, utrinque attenuata, acuta, 
in petiolum conduplicatum valde abbreviatum a latere com- 
pressum contracta, racemo paucifloro vix longiora. Pe- 
dunculus valde bialatus, erectus. Racemus abbreviatus, 
plus minusve septemflorus. Bracteae flores subtendentes 
ascendentes, rigidae, triangulares, acutae, ovario pedicellato 
multo breviores. Sepala lateralia patentia, late oblonga, 
abrupte et inaequaliter acuta, carnosa, in vivo olivaceo- 
viridia. Sepalum dorsale erectum, incurvatum vel supra 
medium recurvatum, oblongum, subobtusum, basi leviter 
angustatum. Petala valde reflexa, lineari-spathulata, acuta 
vel obtusa, carnosa, olivaceo-viridia. Labellum suborbicu- 
lare, valde incrassatum, simplex, apice breviter retusum, 
prope basim disci bicallosum, callis papilliformibus in- 
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