NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
this orchid in its native home is that it is a terrestrial species 
accidentally epiphytic. It is only after several plants have 
been found, always epiphytic, in widely separated localities, 
and it is realized how completely they are adapted to an epi¬ 
phytic life, that the conclusion is formed that here is a species 
which may indicate in its modified vegetative parts what 
changes took place in terrestrial orchids when, as they strug¬ 
gled to reach the light, they became successfully epiphytic. 
The leaves are fleshy yet pliable and soft to the touch, the 
epidermis is as if highly varnished, extraordinarily glossy 
and adapted to withstand desiccation. 
Spiranthes Prasophyllum was first found in Guatemala 
by Wendland, the exact localization being “An Stammen 
zwischen der Hacienda de Pantaleon und Sapote in Guate¬ 
mala.” January 20, 1857. In March 1923 I found the species 
in Honduras near the town of Tela on the Atlantic coast. 
Unfortunately the type specimen of Spiranthes Praso¬ 
phyllum is missing from the Reichenbachian Herbarium so 
that our conception of the species is formed from the orig¬ 
inal description and by the process of elimination. The 
nearest ally appears to be Spiranthes costaricensis Reichb.f., 
a species which is also epiphytic. The identity of S. costari¬ 
censis is quite clear. 
Honduras, Lancetilla Farm near Tela, banks of a 
rocky mountain stream on a woody liana, Ames II 164, 
March 11, 1923. Flowers cream color; Ames II 195, March 
16, 1923, on a hardwood tree, high above ground. 400 feet 
altitude. Flowers greenish becoming flesh color. Leaves ex¬ 
traordinarily glossy, pale green. 
Eurystyles Standleyi Ames sp. nov. Herba epiphy- 
tica, pusilla, foliis rosulatis. Folia elliptico-lanceolata, acuta, 
margine minute ciliolato. Pedunculus erectus, rufo-pubes- 
cens. Racemus densus, floribus congestis. Rracteae in- 
florescentiae rhombico-lanceolatae, margine glanduloso-fim- 
briato. Sepala basi connata, oblonga, lateralibus extus 
glandulosis. Petala oblanceolata, uninervia. Labellum pan- 
duratum, basi sagittato-auriculata, ungue calcari omnino 
