NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
herbarium by three specimens and a series of clearly sug¬ 
gestive sketches. What I take to be the type consists of a 
few detached flowers and an outline drawing (apparently 
made hastily with a pen), which illustrates the habit of the 
plant. The other specimens are complete plants, but seem 
to represent collections made at a later date than the type. 
One of these specimens which is about 15 cm. tall was found 
in Turialba, March 27, 1857, and the other, without date, is 
a tall, slender plant (about .30 cm. tall) which was collected 
by Carl Hoffmann somewhere in Costa Rica. 
Spiranthes costaricensis appears to be normally epiphy¬ 
tic in Costa Rica, having been so reported by Brenes, in 1922, 
and by Standley, in 1924; but in Honduras, where I found 
the species in 1923, it was growing as a terrestrial in rich 
humus under trees. 
Costa Rica, Naranjo, Oersted (Type in Herb. Reichb. f. 
in Herb. Mus. Palat. Vindob. No. 35087): Turialba, Wend- 
land 513, March 27, 1857: Without locality, Carl Hoffmann: 
San Pedro de Ramon, A. M. Brenes 230, January 1922. Sur 
les vieux troncs. 1075 meters altitude: Province of Limon, 
Vicinity of Guapiles, Paul C. Standley 37306, March 12, 13, 
1924. 300-500 meters altitude. On tree trunk; flowers white; 
Standley 37136, March 12, 13, 1924. 300-500 meters alti¬ 
tude. On tree trunk; flowers white; Standley 37363, March 
12, 13, 1924. 300-500 meters altitude. On mossy trunk in 
wet forest; flowers white. 
Honduras, Guaimas, Ames II 139, March 9, 1923. In 
humid forest: Rio Pelo, Ames II 167, March 8, 1923. 260 
feet altitude. In rich humus among rocks near river. Leaves 
pale green; flowers white. 
Spiranthes Prasophyllum Reichb. f. Beitr. Orch. 
Centr. Am. (1866) 65. 
The first time I saw Spiranthes Prasophyllum alive, it 
was clinging to the limb of a large tree, growing with its roots 
partly imbedded in rotting bark. My second collection of 
the species was found on a stout liana over fifty feet above 
the ground. The first impression one gets from a study of 
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