nearly 5 cm. long. Sepals pale cream-color, minutely 
spotted with red. Dorsal sepal erect and cucullate, obo- 
vate, acute, about 1.8 cm. long and 1.2 cm. wide above, 
with the mid-nerve slightly carinate without. Lateral 
sepals spreading-reflexed, very obliquely elliptic-ovate 
with the anterior margin nearly semicircular and the pos- 
terior margin nearly straight when expanded, acute, the 
mid-nerve distinctly carinate without, long-adnate to the 
column-foot at the base, about 1.9 cm. long to the pos- 
terior point of attachment and nearly 1.5 cm. wide. 
Petals small, dark red, very obliquely inserted on the 
column, sigmoid, oblong-lanceolate, with an upcurved, 
acute or acuminate apex. Lip very fleshy, with a broad 
abbreviated claw, about 1.5 cm. long in natural position, 
rich waxy orange with a dark red tip to the epichile; 
hypochile, when viewed from the side, terminating on 
each side in a conspicuous lightly incurved horn, with a 
short but prominent tooth near the middle of the upper 
surface, subquadrate-pandurate when viewed from above ; 
epichile upeurved and inserted at nearly a right angle to 
the hypochile, triangular-lanceolate with an uncinate tip 
when viewed from the side, linear-triangular and sulcate 
when viewed from above. Column relatively short, pale 
cream-color dotted with red, arcuate, clavate, with a 
prominent angle on each side of the apex, about 1.2 cm. 
long, extended into a stout sulcate pubescent foot. 
This concept differs rather strikingly from Gongora 
armeniaca in the color of the flowers, in the cornute an- 
terior projections of the hypochile, in the conspicuous 
middle tooth on its upper surface and in the angulate 
apex of the column. 
Panama: Prov. of Veraguas, region west of Santa Fé, Cerro Tute, 
at 1000 meters altitude, June 24, 1947, P. H. Allen 4648 (Typr in 
Herb. Ames No. 64263). 
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