NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
and typical plants of E. miserrimum are so subtle that spe¬ 
cific distinction is questionable, and it seems best to rele¬ 
gate E. poaeforme to synonymy. 
Costa Rica, C. Werckle. 
Haiti, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Grenada. 
Epidendrum Standleyi Ames sp. nov. Herba epiphy- 
tica. Caules erecti, approximati, paucifoliati. Folia semi- 
teretia, acuta. Flos terminalis. Sepala lateralia anguste 
oblongo-lanceolata, apice incrassato. Sepalum dorsale simile. 
Petala anguste lanceolata, apice plus minusve triquetro. 
Labellum semiliberum, trilobatum; lobis lateralibus erectis; 
lobo medio supra medium tereti, valde incrassato. Discus 
trinervius. Columna infra apicem labello adnata. 
Epiphytic herb allied to Epidendrum teretifolium Sw. 
and to E. cobanense Ames & Schltr. Roots branching, whit¬ 
ish, glabrous. Stems approximate on a creeping rhizome, 
erect, cylindrical, slender, 8-20 cm. tall, about 2 mm. in 
diameter when dry, partly concealed by the cinnamon- 
brown rather closely oppressed rugulose sheaths of the leaves. 
Leaf-sheaths tubular, up to 2.2 cm. long, 3.5-4 mm. in 
diameter at the truncate summit. Leaves about four, ob¬ 
liquely ascending, 3.5-5.5 cm. long, semiterete, 2.5 mm. in 
diameter in the dried specimens, acute. Inflorescence arising 
from the axil of the uppermost leaf, subtended by a scarious 
sheath which arises opposite the leaf-axil. Pedicel, ovary, 
and tubular base of the flower about 1.7 cm. long. Flowers 
purplish-bronze, solitary. Lateral sepals forming with the 
base of the labellum a tubular sac which is adnate to the 
lower portion of the elongated column; free portion of each 
sepal 1.1 cm. long, about 2 mm. wide, narrowly oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, 5-nerved, complanate-thickened near the 
apex. Dorsal sepal similar, about 3 mm. wide near the mid¬ 
dle, and at the apex simply thickened, subacute. Petals 1 
cm. long, 2 mm. wide, narrowly lanceolate, somewhat tri¬ 
quetrous at the tip, subacute, fleshy, 3-nerved. Labellum 
adnate to the column 4 mm. from the summit; free portion 
9 mm. long, distinctly 3-lobed, fleshy, more or less condu- 
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