wide, about five in number, alternate, loosely sheathing 
the stem, narrowly to broadly elliptic, acute or obtuse, 
diminishing above into narrowly lanceolate, acute bracts. 
Raceme slender, 9-12 cm. long, 1.5—2.5 cm. in diameter, 
bearing twenty to thirty or more greenish flowers. Bracts 
of the raceme 0.5—-1 cm. long, ascending, equalling or 
shorter than the pedicellate ovary, narrowly lanceolate, 
acuminate, acute. Pedicellate ovary about 1 cm. long, 
obliquely ascending, conspicuously alate with the edges 
of the alae papillose. Flowers about 5 mm. apart in the 
raceme. Lateral sepals 5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, asym- 
metrically lanceolate, cymbiform at the apex with the 
mid-nerve prominent on the outer surface and produced 
into a rostrate point. Dorsal sepal similar, 5 mm. long, 
3-4 mm. wide, ovate, acute, strongly concave, 8-nerved. 
Petals bipartite with the posterior segment 4-5 mm. long, 
0.75-1 mm. wide, narrowly oblong, acute, 1-nerved 
through the middle with a supplementary nerve arising 
as a branch from the nerve of the anterior segment; an- 
terior segment 7 mm. long, filiform, erect. Labellum 
tripartite, lateral segments 8-9 mm. long, filiform; middle 
segment 5 mm. long, scarcely 1 mm. wide, linear-oblong, 
3-nerved, acute. Spur pendent, 8 mm. long, hardly in- 
flated below the middle, cylindrical. Stigmatic processes 
prominent, semi-ovoid. 
Closely allied to Habenaria tetranema Schitr., a 
Guatemalan species, from which it differs conspicuously 
in the shorter spurs and in the aspect of the foliage. From 
H..novemfida Laindl., it is easily distinguishable in having 
much smaller flowers in more slender racemes. 
Department or Comayaaua, Vicinity of Siguatepeque(El Achote). 
Terrestrial in open mountain-forest at 3,900 feet altitude. Flowers 
pea-green. September 27, 1932. Edwards 267. (Tyrerin Herb, Ames 
No. 40088.) 
6. Habenaria novemfida Lindley in Bentham PI. 
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