base. Petals transversely bipartite with the lobes hori¬ 
zontal, continuous and very unequal; posterior lobe elon¬ 
gate, very narrowly triangular-linear, about 3.2 mm. 
long; anterior lobe very short, ovate, about 0.7 mm. 
long. Lip sharply bilobed (with the lobes semiovate, 
about 1 mm. long and fleshy-thickened on the lateral 
margins), protuberant in the sinus into a minute porrect 
apicule. Column slender, surpassing the lip, about 1.6 
mm. long, above with a relatively large hemispherical 
cavity below and posterior to the clinandrium. 
This species differs from Lepanthes tipulifera Reichb.f. 
in having rather longer stems and very unequal lobes of 
the petals. It appeared in a mixture with another spe¬ 
cies of Lepanthes. 
Panama: Province of Chiriqui, Boquete District, Bajo Chorro, at 
6000 feet altitude, epiphyte in rain forest, 2 to 4 inches high, flowers 
burnt orange (?), January 22, 1938 M.E.Davidson 185 (Type in Herb. 
Field Mus. No. 915594; Duplicate type in Herb. Ames No. 49038). 
Epidendrum confertum Ames $ Schweinfurth in 
Sched. Orch. 10 (1930) 61. 
Epidendrum prostratum Schlechter in Beihefte Bot. 
Centralbl. 36, Abt. 2 (1918) 407, non Cogn. 
Bajo Chorro, in rain forests, at 6000-7000 feet altitude, flower 
reddish brown, Davidson 246. 
Epidendrum paranthicum Reichenbach filius in 
Bot. Zeit. 10 (1852) 732. 
Epidendrum Sancti Ramoni Kranzlin in Vierteljahrs- 
schr. Naturforsch. Gesell. Zurich 74 (1929) 187. 
Bajo Chorro, in rain forest, at 6000-7000 feet altitude, Davidson 
121 . 
Epidendrum ramosum Jacq. var. imbricatum 
(Lindl.) Ames , Hubbard Schweinfurth in Bot. Mus. 
Leaf!. Harv. Univ. 2 (1934) 47. 
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