NEW OH NOTKWOirniY OHCIIIDS 
free portion about 5 mm. long, 7 mm. wide, rather fleshy, 
subequally 3-lobed, with a cordate or reniform base; lateral 
lobes suborbicular, about 3 mm. wide, obliquely ascending; 
middle lobe 3 mm. wide at the base, somewhat triangular, 
acute, with the apex triquetrously thickened and apiculate; 
mid-nerve slightly thickened and prominent on the upper 
surface of the disc. Disc bicallose at the base near the apex 
of the column, the calli divergent and more or less papilli¬ 
form, obtuse. Column 7.5 mm. long, produced posteriorly 
into a fimbriate-dentate membrane which covers the anther. 
Anther minutely and densely glandular. [Fig. 10.\ 
Epidendrum pudicurn is closely allied with /?. firmum 
Jtcichb. f., from w'hich it differs in having smaller flowers 
and a very different labellum. It is a member of the group 
to which/C dijjorme Jacq. belongs. 
Panama, Province of Ghiriqui, “ Palo alto,” C. W. 
Powell 319. Flowered under cultivation at Balboa in 
August 1923. Flowers waxy white with a faint tinge of 
green. Bright green where the labellum joins the column. 
Grows in medium sun in open places. (Type in Herb. Ames 
No. 26876.) 
Epidendrum rugosum Ames sp. nov. Ilerba epi- 
phytica, ramosa. Caules vaginis tubulatis pustuloso- 
rugosis obtecti. Folia valde coriacea, oblonga, apice bi- 
lobulata. Flores albidi, usque ad tres. Sepala lateralia tri- 
angulari-lanceolata, acuta, carinata, carina ultra apicem 
extensa. Sepalum dorsale oblongum, usque ad apicem at- 
tenuatum, leviter caring turn. Petala anguste triangulari- 
lanccolata, acuta, trinervia. Labellum triangulare, acumina¬ 
tum, acutum, basi concavum, columnae adhaerens, valde 
carnosum, quinquenervium. Columna carnosa, truncata. 
Stems much branched, with the branches 1”3 cm. long, 
concealed by tubular sheaths which are rigid and pustulose- 
wrinkled. Leaves about 2 cm. long, 4 -7 mm. wide, oblong, 
bilobulate at the tip, very coriaceous, jointed with the 
rugulose sheaths. Flowers terminal, several, whitish. I.at- 
cral sepals 7 mm. long, 2.25 mm. wide below the middle, tri¬ 
angular-lanceolate, somewhat rounded at the base, acumi- 
