pubescent, up to 28.2 cm. long: raceme many-flowered, 
straight or more commonly arcuate or flexuous, the ra- 
chis being 84 cm. or less long. Flowers rather small for 
the genus, with spreading or reflexed segments, ‘* pale 
bistre plentifully bestrewed with minute brown specks 
and freckles.”° Sepals membranaceous, dark-pubescent 
without. Dorsal sepal refracted, deeply cucullate, oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, up to 2em. long and 5 mm. wide when 
expanded. Lateral sepals broadly oblong-lanceolate, ob- 
lique, complicate-acute, up to 1.8 cm. long and 6 mm. 
wide. Petals oblanceolate-linear, slightly sigmoid, acute, 
up to 2.1 em. long and 2.5 mm. wide. Lip up to 1.7 em. 
long, deeply 8-lobed, sharply divided into a hypochile 
and epichile; hypochile at base with a pair of linear- 
falcate erect-spreading horns, above rather abruptly di- 
lated into a pair of erect obliquely lanceolate or lanceolate- 
triangular acuminate lateral lobes, pubescent through the 
middle where dilated above into a relatively high fleshy 
pubescent semielliptic keel; epichile relatively large, 
hastate-ovate or triangular-ovate, simple or subtrilobed 
with more or less conspicuous rounded subbasal angles, 
acuminate to a complicate-acute apex, densely bearded 
except near the apex. Column very slender, arcuate, 
abruptly bialate at the apex, about 2 cm. long. 
Peru: Junin, Chanchamayo Valley, at 1200-1500 meters altitude, 
Carlos Schunke 1120, 1290, s.n.; Schunke Hacienda, above San Ramon, 
at 1300-1700 meters altitude, in dense forest, Schunke 469. 
Gongora maculata Lindley var. bufonia (Lind/.) 
C. Schweinfurth comb. nov. 
Gongora bufonia Lindley in Bot. Reg. 27 (1841) t. 2 
—Cogniaux in Martius FI. Bras. 3, pt. 5 (1902) 542. 
Gongora bufonia Lindl. var. leucochila Lindley in Bot. 
Reg. 88 (1847) t. 17. 
An intensive study has convinced me that the concept 
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