thickly coriaceous and conduplicate in the dried speci- 
men, linear-oblanceolate, minutely tridenticulate at the 
apex, tapering below into a scarcely petioled base, up to 
4.3 em. long and 6 mm. wide above the middle (when 
softened in hot water). Inflorescence racemose, solitary, 
shorter than the leaf, rather densely flowered down to 
the base, bearing several to many flowers, up to 8 cm. 
long; rachis rather diffuse, filiform. Floral bracts infun- 
dibuliform, spreading, about 1 mm. long. Flowers mi- 
nute, rather fleshy. Sepals connate near the base, similar, 
3-nerved. Dorsal sepal rotund-ovate, acute, about 1.5 
mm. long. Lateral sepals a little smaller, apiculate, 
rather oblique, more or less carinate without. Petals 
very minute, concave, when expanded rhombic-obovate 
and about 0.6 mm. long, 1-nerved, thickened at the broad 
apex. Lip about as long as the petals, subquadrate-ovate 
with upeurved sides when viewed from the front, much 
thickened to a point above the middle, excavated in 
front, with a triangular-acute incurved apex. Column 
about equaling the petals, dilated from the base, 3-lobed 
above. 
Stelis minuta is asmaller plant than S. lamellata Lindl. 
with racemes shorter than the leaf and a rather different 
lip. It differs from S. graminea Lindl. in lacking a dis- 
tinct long petiole, in not having 1-nerved sepals and in 
its dissimilar lip. 
Junin: Chanchamayo Valley, at 1800 meters altitude, March 
*©1924-1927,’’ Carlos Schunke s.n. (Tyre in Herb. Field Mus. No. 
571642; FRAGMENT or Type in Herb. Ames No. 59570); same local- 
ity, at 1600 meters altitude, August 1930, Schunke 1668 (flowers old 
and in poor condition). 
Lepanthes alticola C. Schweinfurth sp. nov. 
Herba pusilla, caespitosa. Caules filiformes, vaginis 
paucis arctis omnino vestiti. Folium oblanceolato-ellip- 
ticum vel elliptico-obovatum, acutum, ad basim petio- 
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