petiole very short and indistinct, channelled, expanded 
below into a loose infundibuliform membranaceous 
sheath that surrounds the stem, up to about 2.4 em. 
long. Stem glabrous below, sparingly glandular-pilose 
above, provided with two or three lanceolate scarious 
sheaths. Spike cylindric, more or less elongate, up to 11 
em. long, many-flowered, becoming loose below. Flowers 
small, spreading. Floral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 
scarious, the lower ones nearly equaling the flower. 
Ovary arcuate-cylindric, glandular-pilose. Sepals sparing- 
ly glandular-pilose. Dorsal sepal ovate-elliptic, obtuse, 
concave, up to about 4.5 mm. long and 2.2 mm. wide, 1- 
nerved. Lateral sepals similar to the dorsal sepal, elliptic, 
obtuse, concave, up to about 5.5 mm. long and 2.5 mm. 
wide, l-nerved throughout. Petals obliquely rhombic- 
oblanceolate, subacute, about 4.9 mm. long and 2 mm. 
wide, l-nerved. Lip 8-lobed, tubular-involute below in 
natural position with the terminal lobe recurved, when 
expanded about 4.9 mm. long; the lower portion is sub- 
orbicular-obovate, about 4 mm. wide, contracted into a 
short broad claw above; apical lobe abrupt, reniform- 
lunate, broadly rounded in front with a minute apicule, 
rounded on each side, up to about 4.2 mm. wide. Spur 
slightly shorter than the ovary, dorso-ventrally flattened, 
cylindric-clavate, obtusely 3-lobulate at the apex, about 
5 mm. long, somewhat arcuate. Column short, with a 
prominent suborbicular-ovate erose-margined rostellar 
process. 
Erythrodes lobatocalecar appears to be allied to FZ. 
repens (Poepp. & Endl.) Ames, but differs in having 
generally broader leaves, smaller flowers and a stouter 
lobulate spur. 
San Martin: San Roque, at 1350-1500 meters altitude, in forest, 
January 7, 1930, Llewelyn Williams 6998 (Tyre in Herb. Field Mus. 
No. 620932; Dupticarr type in Herb. Ames No. 59580.) 
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