Lepanthes insectiflora C. Schweinfurth sp. nov. 
Herba epiphytica, pusilla. Caules caespitosi, fili- 
formes, patentes, apice monophylli, vaginis arctis tubu- 
laribus cum ostiis ovatis ciliatis ornati. Folium ovatum 
vel elliptico-ovatum, erectum, apice acuminato tridenta- 
tum, basi cuneatum. Inflorescentiae singulae vel paucae, 
folii medium superantes. Racemi pauciflori. Bracteae 
extus muriculatae. Sepala triangulari-linearia, dorso alti- 
carinata. Sepalum dorsale trinervium. Sepala lateralia 
uninervia. Petala transverse bilobata lobis valdissime 
inaequalibris; lobus posterior elongatus, angustissime 
triangulari-linearis; lobus anterior perparvus, ovatus. 
Labellum acriter bilobatum, lobis semiovatis. Columna 
gracilis labelli lobos superans. 
Plant caespitose, spreading, very slender. Roots fi¬ 
brous, flexuous, apparently pubescent. Stems filiform, 
about 2.6-7.5 cm. long, almost entirely invested by about 
six to sixteen close tubular minutely muriculate sheaths 
which terminate abruptly in spreading ovate mucronate 
ciliate mouths. Leaf solitary, erect, ovate to elliptic- 
ovate, up to 2.4 cm. long and 8 mm. wide, somewhat 
acuminate above with a tridenticulate apex of which the 
central tooth is slender and projecting, cuneate below to 
a subpetiolate base. Inflorescences one to five, shorter 
than the leaf, about 2- to 12-flowered; bracts infundibu- 
liform, muriculate on the outer surface, about half as 
long as the slender pedicels. Flower membranaceous, 
segments spreading. Sepals triangular-linear, long-acu¬ 
minate with a complicate apex. Dorsal sepal about 5 
mm. long and 1 mm. wide at the base, 3-nerved through 
the basal third with the nerves carinate on the outer 
surface (the median keel is relatively high, thin and cel¬ 
lular-denticulate). Lateral sepals similar but narrower, 
1-nerved and dorsally carinate with the keel cellular- 
denticulate, about 5 mm. long and 0.8 mm. wide at the 
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