around and surpassing the pedicellate ovary, strongly 
‘arinate above, up to 13 mm. long. Sepals and _ petals 
rigid-nervose. Lateral sepals ovate-oblong, asymmetric, 
about 9 mm. long and 3.5 mm. wide, acute, prominently 
sarinate near the apex dorsally. Dorsal sepal lanceolate- 
oblong, 8-8.4 mm. long, about 83 mm. wide, subacute to 
obtuse, strongly convex, slightly carinate above dorsally. 
Petals linear-oblanceolate, 7.7—8 mm. long, 1.8—-2 mm. 
wide, subacute to obtuse. Lip simple, adnate nearly to 
the apex of the column, cordate-ovate, obtuse, subcon- 
duplicate, 5 mm. long (from the middle of the base to 
the apex), about 4.7 mm. broad near the base when ex- 
panded; disc provided with three low fleshy keels of 
which the central keel is much more prominent, each 
lateral keel dilated at the base into an erect semirhombic 
lamina and at its apex convergent with the central keel. 
Column short, very stout, dilated above, crenate-dentate 
at the summit, 4 mm. long, slightly reflexed in the 
middle. 
Epidendrum cocléense is an ally of I. ramosum, but 
differs in having a tricarinate lip and acuminate acute 
(often apiculate) leaves. 
Panama, Province of Coclé. Lower portion of valley and marshes 
along R. Antén. Kl Valle de Antén, About 500 meters altitude. 
February 2, 1935. A. A. Hunter & P. H. Allen 889 (Tyee in Herb. 
Ames No. 41863.) 
