lanceolate, acute, up to 8 cm. long and 2.5 cm. wide. 
Spike usually conspicuously secund, up to 18 cm. long. 
Flowers cleistogamous, smaller than those of the typical 
form. Lip pandurate, strongly triangular-deltoid as in 
the typical form, constricted near the apex to form a 
triangular-quadrate tridentate lobule; callosities thin, 
triangular, inside the basal margin. 
Variety cleistogama differs from the typical form of the 
species mainly in its much longer scape which greatly 
exceeds the leaves, its conspicuously secund spike, and 
its cleistogamous flowers. 
GuaTeMALA: Alta Verapaz, near Coban, epiphytic, alt. 1350 m., 
March 1907 and Feb. 1908, H. von Tuerckheim II 1673 (Tyrer in Herb. 
Ames No. 1824; Isoryre in U.S. Nat. Herb. No. 825824). 
Costa Rica: Cartago, El Mufieco, south of Navarro, on tree, flow- 
ers green, alt. about 1400 m., Feb. 8, 9, 1924, P.C. Standley 33802 
(Herb. Ames). 
Spiranthes Funckiana 4. Rich. & Gal. var. oliv- 
acea (I?olfe) Ames & Correll comb. nov. 
Pelexia olivacea Rolfe in Kew Bull. (1891) 200. 
Pelevia hondurensis Ames in Sched. Orch. 2 (1928) 4. 
Pelewia subaequalis Ames in Sched. Orch. 2 (1928) 5. 
Variety olivacea may be distinguished from typical S. 
Funckiana through its narrower sepals and petals which 
are acute to acuminate instead of being obtuse. The base 
of the lip of var. olivacea has thickened, mammillate, 
semiterete calli, whereas the lip of S. F'unckiana has ob- 
long, flat, apiculate auricles. The general aspect of the 
two concepts is very similar. However, the petiole is 
longer and the lamina of the leaf is much larger in var. 
olwvacea than in the typical form of the species. The posi- 
tion and appearance of the lateral sepals is most helpful 
in separating these two entities in the field. The lateral 
sepals of var. oltvacea are not conspicuously arcuate- 
decurved and directed back toward the rachis as in S. 
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