BOTANICAL 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
CampripGe, MassacnuseTts, Fesruary 1, 1938 Voi. 5, No. 6 
NEW ORCHIDS FROM CENTRAL AMERICA 
BY 
CHARLES SCHWEINFURTH 
THE FOLLOWING NEW SPECIES from Central America, 
mostly from Costa Rica, have been proposed as the result 
of a study of a large collection recently made in Costa 
Rica. 
The arrangement of the genera is in accordance with 
the Engler and Prantl system of classification. 
Malaxis nana C.Schweinfurth sp. nov. 
Herba nana, epiphytica. Caulis brevis, inferne bul- 
bosus, prope medium bifoliatus. Folia inaequalia, ovata. 
Inflorescentia umbelliformis. Flores pro planta magni. 
Perianthii partes late patentes. Sepala anguste triangu- 
lari-lanceolata, perlonge acuminata; lateralia obliqua. 
Petala triangulari-linearia. Labellum triangulari-ovatum 
vel ovato-lanceolatum,longe acuminatum, paene planum. 
Columna minuta. 
Plant dwarf, up to 6.5 cm. high to the tip of the larg- 
est erect leaf. Roots fibrous, lanuginose. Stem about 2 
em. long, bulbose-thickened at the base, clothed below 
with two imbricating sheaths and with the sheathing pet- 
ioles of the leaves. Leaves two, about opposite, erect or 
widely spreading, very unequal in size, sessile except for 
the long-sheathing base, broadly ovate, acute,in the dried 
plant membranaceous with a prominently carinate mid- 
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