ers cream-colored, July 1937, G. Klug 10117 (Tyre in Herb. Ames 
No. 61552); Mishuyacu, near Iquitos, at 100 meters altitude, in forest, 
flowers white and lilac, February-March 1930, Klug 984. 
Epidendrum microtos Reichenbach filius var. 
grandiflorum C. Schweinfurth var. nov. 
Herba pseudobulbosa, foliis angustissime linearibus, 
floribus satis majoribus et petalis minus spathulatis sub- 
acutis et labelli lobo medio emarginato a specie differt. 
Plant epiphytic, variable vegetatively. Pseudobulbs 
ovoid, concealed and surpassed by the fibres of evanes- 
cent sheaths, up to 5.2 em. high, two- to three-leaved at 
the summit. Leaves very narrowly linear, up to 50 cm. 
long and 7.5 mm. wide, acute, rigidly coriaceous, often 
conduplicate in the dried specimen. Inflorescence either 
racemose or loosely paniculate, subequaling or shorter 
than the leaves, with the branches of the peduncle and 
the pedicellate ovary densely scabrous or verruculose., 
Flowers medium-sized, with spreading segments, rather 
fleshy, dark rose or carmine. Dorsal sepal oblong-oblan- 
ceolate, obtuse or subacute, about 1.7 em. long and 5.5 
mm. wide. Lateral sepals similar, obliquely oblanceolate- 
oblong, subacute, up to 1.9 em. long and 6.5 mm. wide. 
Petals oblanceolate to subspatulate, subacute, about 1.65 
em. long, 5-6 mm. wide. Lip nearly free from the col- 
umn; lamina cuneate at base, emarginate at the apex, 
sharply 3-lobed; lateral lobes triangular-oblong, lightly 
retrorse, rather obtuse, with rounded angle in the middle 
of the posterior margin; mid-lobe much larger, obovate- 
subrotund with strongly recurved sides and slightly undu- 
late margins; disc with a broad flattened basal thickening 
which extends into three thickened lines, with nerves 
densely minute-papillose. Column short, stout, lightly 
recurved on the back, irregularly crenate-dentate at the 
apex, with a pair of small angulate or auriculate append- 
ages in front near the apex, about 7.3 mm. long. 
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