Peru: San Martin, Zepelacio near Moyobamba, at 1200-1600 meters 
altitude, epiphyte in forest, flowers cream-color, January 19384, G. 
Klug 3520. 
Lepanthes tracheia Reichenbach filius in Flora 69 
(1886) 557. 
A Peruvian collection, which has been referred to this 
Colombian species, is characterized as follows. 
Plants very small, 4 cm. or less tall, as compared with 
2.6-6.2 em. high as shown by a drawing of L. tracheia 
from the Reichenbach Herbarium. Leaf suborbicular- 
ovate (rarely triangular-ovate), with a subcordate base, 
rather than elliptic-ovate as shown in the drawing, the 
size being about 1.2 cm. long and 9-10 mm. wide, as 
compared with 1.5—2.5 em. long and 9-17 mm. wide in 
the figure. The sepals appear to be very similar to those 
depicted in an analysis of L. tracheia from the Reichen- 
bach Herbarium. The petals are ciliate and pubescent 
(not depicted nor described) and the posterior lobe is 
oblong-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate and is narrower 
than shown in the analysis. 
Peru: Cuzco, Prov. of Paucartambo, San Pedro to Sta. Isabel, at 
1350 meters altitude, on old tree trunks, flowers reddish wine-color, 
C. Vargas 006783. 
Lepanthes trachysepala Schlechter. in Fedde Re- 
pert. Beih. 7 (1920) 100; Mansfeld in Fedde Repert. 
Beih. 57 (1929) t. 84, nr. 1380. 
A Peruvian collection, consisting of a single specimen, 
has been referred to this Colombian species. 
Plant about 25 em. high, as in the type. Stem about 
14 cm. long, contrasted with 5-7 cm. long as described. 
Leaf oblong-elliptic, acute and 4.9 cm. long, as com- 
pared with oblong, obtuse and 2.5-8.5 cm. long in the 
type. Raceme about 8-flowered, rather than 8- to 12- 
flowered. Flowers red with yellow spots, as contrasted 
with pale brown. Sepals about 9 mm. long, only 7 mm. 
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