TROPICAL AMERICAN ORCHIDS 
Costa Riga, Cachi, C. H. Lankester 509, August 5, 1923. 
Flowers pale apple green (yellowish). 4000 feet altitude. 
(Type in Herb. Ames No. 27247.) 
Epidendrum chinense (Lindl.) Ames comb. nov. 
Broughtonia chinensis Lindl. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 1 
(1842) 492. 
Epidendrum nonchinense Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. 6 
(1862) 324. 
Laeliopsis chinensis Lindl. ex Reichb. f. in Saunders 
Refug. Rot. 2 (1882) sub. t. 139, in synon. 
A Central American species which was originally 
ascribed to China by error. Although it is unfortunate that 
a species of the American flora should have been given a 
misleading name, it is not permissible to adopt the change 
proposed by Reichenbach. 
Guatemala to San Salvador. 
Epidendrum circinatum Ames sp. nov. Rhizoma 
validum. Caules abbreviati, inter se distantes, basi teretes, 
superne complanati, di- vel trifoliati, juniores vaginis amplis 
vestiti. Folia ligulata vel elliptico-oblonga, valde coriacea, 
apice bilobata, oblique ascendentia. Pedunculus terminalis, 
e spatha oriens, paene usque ad basim florifer. Racemus 
plus minusve decemflorus, rigidus, bracteis magnis flores 
subtendentibus. Pedicellus cum ovario bracteam sub- 
tendentem vix excedens. Sepala lateralia oblongo-ovata, 
valde circinata, acuta, subtus prope apicem breviler 
carinata, carina inaequaliter denticulata. Sepalum dorsale 
simile, apice ecarinatum. Petala oblonga, circinata, sub- 
obtusa, sepalis angustiora. Labellum permagnum, basi 
cordatum, obovatum, apice leviter emarginatiim. Discus 
per medium carina angustata nunc sulcata ornatus. Col- 
umna basi labelli adhaerens, uLrinque in callum producta, 
callis disco labelli adhaerentibus. 
Rhizome about 8 mm. in diameter, rooting. Stems 
about 9 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. apart, terete at the base, com¬ 
pressed above, when immature concealed by ample loosely 
appressed sheaths, 2-3-leaved. Leaves approximate, jointed. 
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