about 69 cm. or less tall, glabrous, with a small close 
tubular sheath in the lower portion and with two to four 
remote leaves above. Leaves strict, oblong-lanceolate or 
linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, sessile with an am- 
plexicaul base, up to 10 cm. long and 1.8 em. wide (the 
uppermost blade). Flowers one to three (commonly 
two), rather small for the genus, pink, about 5 cm. or 
less apart, subtended by a strict lanceolate bract which 
is similar to the leaves but shorter and often slightly 
broader. Mature ovary cylindric, about 4.5 cm. long. 
Dorsal sepal lanceolate-oblong, acute, about 3.6 cm. 
long, 7.5-8 mm. wide. Lateral sepals similar to the dor- 
sal sepal, narrowly elliptic-oblong or lanceolate-oblong, 
acute and minutely apiculate, lightly oblique, about 8.4 
em. long, 6.2-7.2 mm. wide. Petals oblong-elliptic or 
narrowly obovate-oblong, subacute, with irregular an- 
terior margins, about 3.3 cm. long, 1.1-1.3 cm. wide. 
Lip sharply 3-lobed near the apex, elliptic-ovate or 
oblong-ovate in outline, rounded at base with a minute 
gland on each side within, about 8.3 cm. long, 1.35-1.6 
cm. wide near or above the middle; lower portion rela- 
tively large, ovate-oblong or subquadrate-oblong, ter- 
minating on each side in a triangular spreading subacute 
apex; mid-lobe relatively small, suborbicular-obovate, 
retuse or rounded at the apex, with irregularly erose- 
dentate margins, 6-7.5 mm. long, about 7 mm. wide; 
dise with a broad band of more or less papillose ridges 
extending from the base nearly to the apex and narrow- 
ing above to a point. Column including the rigidly at- 
tached anther about 2.25 cm. high at the back, linear- 
oblong and sulcate when viewed from the front. 
This species is apparently similar to several Brazilian 
Pogonias of Section Cleistes, especially to Pogonia revo- 
luta Rodr., which has much broader leaves, and flowers 
about twice as large. The flowers seem to be quite like 
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