has larger flowers with acute or acuminate (not obtuse) 
segments and a distinctly 3-lobed lip. 
VeNezugLA: State of Bolivar, Chimanté Massif, along Rio Tirica 
(Rio Apururén), just above Techiné-meru, at 470 m. altitude, leaves 
membranaceous, ““bronze and shining above, margins buff, below 
brown-lavender. Scape buff-greenish ; cauline bracts stramineous with 
salmon above; ovary yellow-brown; spur pale greenish yellow; 2 
lateral sepals projecting forward ; margins involute, buff-creamy ; dor- 
sal sepal brownish yellow; lip recurved, white in lower half, yellow 
in other part, callosities on lip yellow; 2 lateral petals appressed to 
dorsal sepal, white.’’ January 16, 1955, Julian A. Steyermark & John 
J. Wurdack 96 (Tyrer in N.Y. Bot. Gard.). 
Spiranthes longiauriculata C. Schweinfurth sp.nov. 
Herba tenuis, aphylla, usque ad plus quam 26 em. alta. 
Radices fasciculatae, tuberosae, crassae. Caulis infra gla- 
ber, supra sparsim pilosus, vaginis pluribus tubulatis, 
strictis ornatus. Inflorescentia laxe triflora. Flores medio- 
cres, erecti. Sepalum dorsale valde concavum, anguste 
elliptico-lanceolatum, cum parte apicali longa angusta et 
recurva, apice oblique truncato-lobulatum, columnae ad- 
natum, circiter 12 mm. longum et medio 8.4 mm. latum, 
basi sparsim pilosum. Sepala lateralia linearia, cum mar- 
ginibus superioribus involutis, supra recurva, apice sub- 
acuta et plusminusve lobulata, per dimidium basalem 
connata et laminam anguste oblongam formantia, circiter 
15.2 mm. longa et 5 mm. lata expansa, basi obliqua col- 
umnae pedi infra adnata. Petala sepalo dorsali valde ad- 
nata, obliquissime oblanceolata, apice truncata vel oblique 
lobulata, basi columnae adnata, circiter 10.9 mm. longa 
et supra 2 mm. lata, uninervia. Labellum in circuitu 
obovato-oblongum, ungue lineari-lanceolato columnae 
pedis apici adnato; lamina circiter 17 mm. longa et 4.5 
mm. lata, supra constricta et deinde in lobum apicalem 
rhombico-ovatum, parvum, acutum, reduplicatum dila- 
*Spiranthes goninensis (Pulle) C. Schweinf. comb. nov. 
Syn. Stenorrhynchus goninensis Pulle in Rec. Trav. Bot. Néerl. 6 
(1909) 238, 
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