lar leaf-sheaths. Leaves distichous, oblong or elliptic- 
oblong, minutely bilobulate at the rounded apex, cuneate 
at the sessile clasping base, up to 11.5 em. long and 2.: 
cm. wide, spreading, subcoriaceous. Inflorescence termi- 
nal, consisting of a large spreading panicle of about 5 dis- 
tichous arcuate, many-flowered branches which are 26.5 
cm. or less long; rachis finely pubescent. Floral bracts 
inconspicuous, lanceolate, shorter than 
the short gradually dilated pedicellate 
ovary. Pedicellate ovary and outer sur- 
fuce of the sepals densely short-pu- 
bescent. Flowers small, rather fleshy. 
Dorsal sepal obovate-oblong or oblan- 
ceolate-oblong, obtuse and dorsally 
subapically mucronate, 9-10 mm. 
long, 8-8.2 mm. wide, 3-nerved, light- — Epidendrum pubiflo- 
ly concave. Lateral sepals obliquely 7™™, flower expand- 
ed, one and one half 
times natural size. 
elliptic-obovate, acute with a promi- 
nent dorsal mucro, 10.8—11 mm. long, 
4.6-4.8 mm. wide, concave, 5-nerved. Petals linear- 
oblanceolate, lightly oblique, 9.5-9.9 mm. long, 1.9-2 
mm. wide above, subacute, l-nerved. Lip adnate to the 
column nearly to its apex ; lamina suborbicular in outline, 
sharply 8-lobed, deeply cordate at base, about 7 mm. in 
greatest length and 9-9.5 mm. wide across the lateral 
lobes; lateral lobes spreading, obliquely dolabriform- 
ovate, with the rounded outer margins irregularly cren- 
ulate and the anterior margin (forming the posterior wall 
of the sinus) straight ; mid-lobe subequal, shortly cuneate- 
obovate, lightly retuse, with the lobules undulate-crenate ; 
dise bicallose at base with three short fleshy approximate 
keels (the central one longest) just in front. Column 
short, strongly dilated in front Just above the base, about 
5.5 mm. long on the dorsal surface, produced on each 
side into a pair of shallowly transverse-oblong auricles. 
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