spatulate-oblong; lamina laterally undulate (especially 
near the middle), with a pair of small fleshy papillose calli 
near the basal margins, and a broad central lightly sul- 
cate fleshy thickening. Column abruptly retrorse-arcuate 
or geniculate below the middle, about 7.5 mm. long, very 
densely tomentose in front around the stigmatic cavity ; 
clinandrium membranaceous, lacerate; anther dorsal, 
erect, 
Gomphichis Macbridei appears to lack close allies; the 
petals and lip are very characteristic. 
Hvanuco: Yanano, at about 6000 feet altitude, on grassy slopes, 
““Two upper parts w. lower green. Central green and brown lined. 
Lip white-tipt’’, J. Francis Macbride 3839. (Tyrer in Herb. Field Mu- 
seum No. 534902; Dupticare Tyvek in Herb. Ames No. 39051). 
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