loose flaring unjointed imbricating leaf-sheaths, about 5.8 
mm. long. Leaves very small, distichous, approximate, 
spreading-recurved, oblong-ovate, about 7.5 mm. or less 
long and 4.4 mm. wide when expanded, rounded at the 
apex with a minutely bilobulate and mucronate tip, con- 
vex with a sulcate center, apparently very fleshy. Flow- 
ers apparently solitary, sessile, green-rose, much smaller 
than in the usual typical form of the species. Dorsal se- 
pal elliptic-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or sub- 
acute and apiculate, about 8.9 mm. long and 8.4 mm. 
wide, dorsally carinate. Lateral sepals similar to the dor- 
sal sepal, elliptic-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute and 
apiculate, oblique at base with center adnate to the col- 
umn, 8.7-9 mm. long and 8mm. wide, with a prominent 
dorsal winged keel which is denticulate above. Petals 
oblong or elliptic-oblong, acute, about 8 mm. long, 2.8-38 
mm. wide, obliquely adnate to the column at base. Lip 
adnate to the column nearly to the apex; lamina subor- 
bicular-cordate or broadly ovate-cordate, rounded and 
abruptly apiculate at the apex, about 5mm. long and 5.9 
mm. wide, fleshy with finely denticulate margins. Col- 
umn abbreviated, terminating on each side in a prominent 
obliquely rounded-subquadrate auricle, denticulate on 
the retuse middle portion, about 3.9 mm. long to the 
tip of an auricle. 
The differences of this variety from the highly variable 
E. Schlechterianum are chiefly vegetative. The long creep- 
ing rhizome and small leaves are distinctly divergent. As 
to size, the flower is smaller than usual in the typical 
form, but some flowers of 27. Schlechterianum are quite 
as small. The petals of the variety, however, tend to be 
broader and the column shorter than in the species. 
Loreto: Mishuyacu, near Iquitos, at 100 meters altitude, in forest, 
April 1930, G. Klug 1274 (Tyre in U.S. Nat. Herb. No. 1456070; 
Isoryres in Herb. Field Mus. No, 624992 and in Herb. Ames No, 
G1887). 
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