mucro, coriaceous, about 1.5-8.6 cm. long, up to 2.5 
cm. wide. Inflorescence divaricately paniculate, much 
surpassing the leaves, with the peduncle and rachis mark- 
edly fractiflex; peduncle 3-4.5 cm. long, complanate 
and narrowly bialate with two to four prominent spread- 
ing bracts which are conduplicate, broadly winged on 
the back and 1.2 em. or less long. Bracts subtending 
the branches of the panicle similar but smaller. Panicle 
loosely several- to many-flowered, with spreading or re- 
curved few-flowered branches. Flowers small, pale green- 
ish yellow, with spreading segments. Dorsal sepal elliptic- 
lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate or short- 
acuminate, 3-nerved, about 8 mm. long and 2.2—2.9 mm. 
wide, dorsally keeled toward the apex. Lateral sepals 
very obliquely elliptic-lanceolate, complicate-acuminate 
above, concave, 3-nerved, prominently keeled toward 
the apex, 8.1-8.4 mm. long measured along the posterior 
margin, about 38 mm. wide. Petals linear, lightly sig- 
moid, acuminate, 1-nerved, with the margins densely 
ciliate, about 7 mm. long and 1.1 mm. wide. Lip adnate 
to the column nearly to the apex; lamina fleshy, concave 
below, 3-lobed near the middle, cordate at the base, acute 
or acuminate at the tip, 4-5 mm. long in the center; 
lateral lobes erect-incurved, semiovate or aliform, with or 
without a free apex; mid-lobe about equally large with 
the lateral lobes, porrect, triangular or ovate-triangular. 
Column stout and dilated upward when seen from the 
side, subentire at the apex, about 4mm. long at the back. 
This little species does not appear to have any near 
allies. 
Panama: Coclé, Cerro Pajita, hills north of El Valle, at 1100 
meters altitude, October 27, 1946, Paul H. Allen 3780 (Tyrer in Herb. 
Ames No. 65445). 
Epidendrum pajitense C. Schweinfurth sp. nov. 
Herba elata. Caulis suberectus, gracilior, vaginis arctis 
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