NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
Epidendrum porphyreum Lindl. in Hook. Journ. 
Bot. 3 (1841) 86, tt. 7, 8. 
On the evidence of a Bernoulli specimen preserved in 
the Kew Herbarium, the range of this Peruvian species was 
extended to Guatemala by Hemsley in Biologia Centrali- 
Americana. Schlechter, in his Kritische Aufzahlung der 
bisher aus Zentral-Amerika bekanntgewordenen Orchidaceen 
(Bot. Centralbl. 36, Abt. 2 (1918) 466), admitted the species 
to his list without comment. The Bernoulli specimen is very 
different from E. porphyreum, and seems to be conspecific 
with Epidendrum Clowesii Batem. From available evidence 
it would seem that E. porphyreum is not a native of Central 
America. 
Eria Taylori Ames sp. nov. Herba epiphytica, pauci- 
ramosa, foliis prope apicem ramorum confertis. Caules 
rigidi ramis foliosis distantibus. Folia in sicco plus minusve 
chartacea, anguste lanceolata, nervosa, acuminata, acuta, 
plus minusve quattuor. Pedunculi ex axillis foliorum 
orientes, folia aequantes vel excedentes. Racemus multi- 
florus, arcuatus. Pedicelli cum ovario fusco-glandulosi. 
Bracteae glabrae. Sepala lateralia triangulari-ovata, sub- 
acuta, quinquenervia, membranacea, mentum obtusum 
formantia. Sepalum dorsale lanceolatum, subacutum, basi 
valde concavum. Petala elliptico-lanceolata, subacuta, tri- 
nervia, nervis lateralibus ramosis. Labellum ovatum, ob¬ 
tusum, margine prope medium labelli inaequaliter dentatum, 
ecallosum. Columna carnosa, sepalo dorsali plus minusve 
duplo brevior. 
Roots fibrous, stiff, spreading. Stems 30 cm. or more 
long, sparingly branched, about 5 mm. in diameter near the 
base, concealed for the most part by elongated tubular 
sheaths which in dried specimens are rubeolus. Leaves up 
to 12 cm. long, 1-1.6 cm. wide below the middle, narrowly 
lanceolate, rounded at the base, tapering gradually from 
above the middle to an acute tip, chartaceous when dry, 
crowded on the upper part of the branches, usually four or 
five in number. Peduncles ascending from the axils of the 
leaves, densely and shortly glandular, with the raceme 12 cm. 
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