long in the description. Lateral sepals long-acuminate, 
rather than acute or subacute. Petals 6.5, not 5.5, mm. 
long. Lamina of lip not embracing the column at the 
base, when expanded, triangular-ovate, not lanceolate- 
triangular as described. 
Peru: Cuzco, Prov. of Urubamba, near Wenner Gren ruins, at 
3400-3600 meters altitude, in dense wet dark forest with much fog 
and rain, Rk. D. Metcalf 30769. 
Pleurothallis citrina Sch/tr. var. elliptica C. 
Schweinfurth var. nov. 
Planta major, caulibus altioribus, foliorum lamina el- 
liptica vel oblongo-elliptica, inflorescentiis duplo longi- 
oribus et labello majore a specie differt. 
Stems more or less arcuate, up to 15 em. long, with 
several (up to 7), close, tubular sheaths. Leaf short- 
petioled, 4.1-11.5 cm. long; lamina elliptic to oblong- 
elliptic, 3.5-10 cm. long, up to 2.8 em. wide. Inflores- 
cences about 4-6 cm. long. Flowers yellow, very similar 
to those of the type. Lip somewhat larger than that of 
the species, oblong, about 3 mm. long. 
Peru: Puno, Prov. of Carabaya, Ollachea (abajo), at 2500 meters 
altitude, on rocks, December 30, 1947, C. Vargas 6936 (Tyre in 
Herb. Ames No. 65081). 
Lepanthopsis microlepanthes (Griseb.) Ames in 
Bot. Mus. Leafl. Harvard Univ. 1, No. 9 (1988) 24, fig. 
Pleurothallis microlepanthes Grisebach FI. Brit. W. 
Ind. Isl. (1864) 610; Cogniaux, in Urban Symb. An- 
till. 6 (1909) 480; Fawcett & Rendle F]. Jam. 1 (1910) 
65. 
Lepanthes Leonn C. Schweinfurth in H. Léon. FI. 
de Cuba 1 (1946) 862. 
A recent review of the concept, Lepanthes Leoni, 
which was described in Dr. Hermano Leon’s Flora de 
Cuba, has indicated that this little orchid is referable to 
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