devoid of leaves and sometimes terminated by the rigid 
remains of the rachis of a raceme. Leaves crowded, coria- 
ceous, 4-10 cm. long, up to 2.5 em. wide, elliptic-ovate 
or oblong-lanceolate, tapering gradually to a subacute 
apex, the terminal one exceeding the raceme. Leat-sheaths 
somewhat complanate, 1.5-8 em. long. Inflorescence 3—5 
cm. long, from the axil of a terminal leaf. Peduncle below 
the flowers conspicuously complanate and __ slightly 
winged. Bracts of the inflorescence 1—1.5 em. long, linear- 
lanceolate, acute. Pedicel and ovary 1.5 em. long, rigid. 
I‘lowers three to nine, very fleshy. Lateral sepals about 
2 cm. long, 9 mm. wide, strongly concave, porrect, asym 
metrically ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, acute, with the 
median nerve lightly carinate. Dorsal sepal 1.8 em. long, 
about 7 mm. wide, slightly concave, lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, acute. Petals 1.7 cm. long, 8 mm. wide, linear- 
lanceolate, acute, margin entire or minutely scabrid. 
Labellum up to 2.5 em. long, 2 em. or more wide, sim- 
ple, suborbicular, deflexed, very finely and irregularly 
fimbriate on the margin. Dise smooth, ecallose. Column 
extraordinarily fleshy, deeply excavated in front with the 
lateral walls strongly thickened and rounded at the en- 
trance to the excavation ; stigma concealed ; androclinium 
entire, with the margin forming an almost perfect circle: 
pollinia four, completely filling the androclinium. 
Repusric or Honpuras, Department of Comayagua, Minas de Oro. 
Epiphyte in open mountain forest at 4,000 feet altitude. Sepals and 
petals dirty lavender with bright lavender veining, lip and column very 
dark, dull lavender. December 25, 1982. J. B. Edwards 333. (Typr 
in Herb. Ames No. 39042.) 
ILLusTRATION: Plant drawn natural size. 1, labellum much en- 
larged. 2, column much enlarged. 
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