liquely oblong-lanceolate, complicate and mucronate at 
the apex, dorsally carinate, about 5.8 mm. long and 2 
mm. wide, 8-nerved. Petals elliptic-linear, lightly ob- 
lique, obtuse, about 5 mm. long and 1.2 mm. wide, 1- 
nerved. Lip adnate to the column up to its apex, broadly 
ovate in outline, concave in the middle of the base, with 
a fold on each side in natural position, the lower two 
thirds on each side being prominently and irregularly 
lacerate-dentate and the anterior third triangular-ovate, 
entire and obtuse, indistinctly 8-nerved (with the mid- 
nerve prominent), lightly cordate at the base, about 4.8 
mm. long and equally wide when expanded. Column 
short, straight, somewhat dilated in front, with two teeth 
on each side (the lower tooth much the larger), about 
2.7mm. long. Anther cordate-ovoid, 2-celled with each 
cell 2-chambered. Pollinia 4, complanate-pyriform. 
This little species is apparently without close allies. 
Cuzco: Prov. of Paucartambo, Sta. Isabel to Asuncién, epiphyte at 
1800 meters altitude, January 4, 1946, C. Vargas 5583 (Typr in Herb. 
Ames No. 63168). 
Epidendrum subliberum C. Schweinfurth sp. nov. 
Herba pusilla, epiphytica, ramosa. Caulis ramosus; 
rami breves, vaginis arctis imbricatis obtecti. Folia plura, 
prope ramorum apicem congesta, linearia, apice compli- 
cato mucronata, rigida. Inflorescentiae terminales, uni- 
cae, pendulae, racemosae. Racemi subdense multiflori. 
Flores perparvi. Perianthii partes patentes vel reflexae. 
Sepalum dorsale ovale vel oblongo-ellipticum, obtusum. 
Sepala lateralia similia, leviter obliqua, subacuta. Petala 
multo angustiora, oblique lanceolata, subacuta. Label- 
lum columnae basi adnatum, transversum, in circuitu 
perlate ovatum, antice trilobatum,; lobi laterales com- 
parate magni, late patentes, ovato-rotundati; lobus 
medius comparate parvus, semiorbicularis. Columna 
parva, recta. 
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