Leaves linear, grass-like, 15-28 em. long, about 3 mm. 
wide, obtuse, apiculate, obliquely erect. Inflorescence 
racemose, arising 1n the axil of the leaves, 6-7 em. long, 
erect, with several imbricating scarious sheaths at the 
base, about 7-flowered. Bracts of the raceme about 5 mm. 
long, narrowly lanceolate, conduplicate. Pedicels with 
the ovary 1—1.8 em. long, slender, obliquely ascending, 
distichous. Flowers pale yellow with lavender striations 
on the labellum. Lateral sepals 5 mm. long, about 3mm. 
wide, ovate-lanceolate, acute, strongly concave, connate 
at the base forming a conspicuous rounded mentum, 
lightly carinate along the middle nerve on the outer sur- 
face. Dorsal sepal 5 mm. long, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 
closely appressed to the petals, 38-nerved to the tip. Petals 
5mm. long, about 2 mm. wide, oblong, abruptly rounded 
at the tip, subacute. Labellum about 9 mm. long, 6 mm. 
wide across the bilobed tip, obliquely ascending then 
sharply deflexed, subpandurate from a rounded base; the 
apical lobes 3 mm. long, 8 mm. wide, rounded, slightly 
divaricate, obscurely erose on the margin. Dise with two 
obliquely placed basal calli from each of which a lightly 
raised keel extends nearly to the sinus formed by the ter- 
minal lobes, with a central keel between them and a short 
supplementary keel on each side. Column about half as 
long as the dorsal sepal, produced into a conspicuous foot. 
Pollinia six. 
Repustic or Honnuras, Department of Comayagua, Minas de Oro. 
Epiphyte in open mountain forest, at 4,000 feet altitude. Sepals and 
petals pale yellow, labellum pale yellow with lavender stripes. De- 
cember 26, 1982. J. B. Edwards 334. (Vyrer in Herb. Ames No. 
39065); Epiphyte in open mountain forest, at 4,000 feet altitude. Se- 
pals and petals green with lavender ticking, labellum bronze. Decem- 
ber 28, 1982. J. B. Edwards 337. 
InLusrration: Plant natural size. 1, lateral sepal enlarged. 2, 
dorsal sepal enlarged. 3, petal enlarged. 4, flower enlarged. 5, lip 
and column viewed from the side, enlarged. 6, pollinia enlarged. 
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