son, opening in succession, 2~4 em. distant from one an- 
other, the lowermost one with maturing capsule while 
the terminal one is in the bud. Bracts of the inflorescence 
about 1 cm. long, lanceolate, tapering gradually to an 
acute tip. Pedicels about 1 cm. long, slender. Ovary 
about 1 em. long. Lateral sepals 12-14 mm. long, 3.5 
mm. wide, oblong, acute, lightly carinate beneath the 
tip or simply thickened, nervose. Dorsal sepal about 14 
mm. long, similar to the laterals. Petals 14 mm. long, 
3.5mm. wide, narrowly oblong-elliptical, tapering rather 
gradually to a rounded tip, many-nerved. Labellum 14 
mm. long, 8-lobed; lateral lobes triangular, obtuse, erect, 
arising just above the middle, 9 mm. long to the base of 
the column, the nerves nearest the sinus thickened or 
verrucose; middle lobe 5—6 mm. long, 7.5 mm. wide near 
the middle, 3.5 mm. wide at the base, obcordate or cu- 
neate with a rounded retuse tip, with about eleven irregu- 
larly carinate or verrucose nerves, apical margin turned 
upward. Dise papilliferous along the nerves up to the 
base of the middle lobe, the papillae purplish. Column 
about 7 mm. long, dilated upward, with a rounded wing 
or lobe on each side at the base; anther 2.5 mm. long, 
conical, long-stipitate. Pollinia eight. 
Rereusirc oF Honpuras, Department of Comayagua, Kilometer 
154, Tegucigalpa Highway. Terrestrial in marshy ground in open pine 
forest, 3,400 feet altitude. Sepals and petals cream with a scarlet tint; 
lip cream with many scarlet stripes. October 6, 1982. J. B. Edwards 
277. (Tyrer in Herb. Ames No. 39066). 
ILLustrRATION: Plant natural size. 1, flower, front view, enlarged. 
2, flower, side view, enlarged. 3, column enlarged. 
