NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
1925-January 1, 1926. 2700-3000 meters altitude. “On 
tree.” (Type in Herb. Ames No. 33498.) 
Epidendrum carnosum Lindl. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 
3 (1841) 87. Cogn. in Mart. FI. Bras. 3, pt. 5 (1898) 157, 
t. 45, fig. 2. E. Ulei Schltr. in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 6 
(1914) 124. 
It is clear from the original description of E. carnosum 
and from the treatment of Cogniaux in the Flora Brasiliensis 
that we have to do with a variable species. In fact the 
Brazilian material appears usually to be more slender and to 
have longer narrower leaves than recently received specimens 
of F. carnosum from Mt. Duida, Venezuela. But the nearly 
identical flowers show that the plants are inseparable. 
Habitally E. Ulei from Mt. Roraima, British Guiana, 
appears to be conspecific with the plants from Mt. Duida, 
Venezuela. Also a flower from the type plant of E. Ulei is 
nearly identical with Cogniaux’s excellent figure ofE.carnosum. 
Epidendrum confertum A. & S. nom. nov. E. pros¬ 
tratum Schltr. in Beihefte. Bot. Centralbl. 36 (1918) Abt. 
2, p. 407, not E. prostratum (Lindl.) Cogn. in Mart. FI. 
Bras. 3, pt. 5 (1898) 112. 
The name Epidendrum prostraium was first applied by 
Cogniaux to Physinga prostrata Lindl., a plant of British 
Guiana. 
The following collection appears to represent E. con¬ 
fertum. 
Costa Rica, Province of Heredia, Gerros de Zurqui, 
Northeast of San Isidro, Paul C. Standley & Juvenal Valerio 
^0830, March 3,1926. 2000-2400 meters altitude. “On tree.” 
Epidendrum congestoides A. & S. sp. nov. Herba 
^ana, caespitosa, epiphytica. Caules foliorum vaginis dense 
inibricantibus inclusi. Folia approximata, disticha, late pa- 
tentia, oblonga, in siccitate lateribus revolutis. Inflores- 
oentiae terminales, saepissime biflorae. Sepala lateralia 
ovato-lanceolata, basi valdissime obliqua, in dorso carinata. 
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