ORCHIDACEAE QUAEDAM AMERICANAE 
the tip, acute. Dorsal sepal 1.5 cm. long, 7 mm. wide, 
elliptic-oblong, cuspidate-acute, 5-nerved. Petals 12-13 
mm. long, 7 mm. wide, oval, rounded at the tip, narrowed 
at the base, 3-nerved, each nerve prominent and more or 
less branched. Labellum with the column 1.8 cm. long, 
conspicuously 3-lobed; lateral lobes suborbicular, 7 mm. 
long, 5 mm. wide, margin irregularly denticulate; middle 
lobe cuneate, emarginate, obscurely and bluntly apiculate, 
6.5 mm. long, 7 mm. wide across the tip. Disc shortly bi- 
carinate beneath the summit of the column, with three 
conspicuous nerves. Column fleshy, 1 cm. long. 
Allied with Epidendmm torquatum Lindl., from which 
it differs conspicuously in the larger flowers, less capitate 
and much longer inflorescence. 
Colombia, State of Cauca, Headwaters of Rio Lopez, 
Rio Palo basin, Tierra Adentro, H. Pittier 1066, January 
1906. 2500-3000 meters altitude. (Type in U. S. Nat. 
Herb. No. 531268.) 
Elleanthus tovarensis Ames sp. nov. Aff. E. fur- 
furaceo Lindl. Caules elongati, simplices, foliosi. Folia 
anguste oblongo-lanceolata, nervosa, basi vaginantia. Ra- 
cemus abbreviatus, plus minusve decemflorus. Bracteae in- 
florescentiae cymbiformes, acutae, flores excendentes. Pedi- 
cellus furfuraceus. Sepala lateralia oblonga, acuta. Se- 
palum dorsale simile. Petala oblonga, apice irregulariter 
crenulata. Labellum suborbiculare, margine irregulariter 
dentatum, prope basim bicallosum. Calli permagni, in 
sicco nigrescentes. Columna crassa. 
Plant about 56 cm. tall, unbranched. Stems erect, 3 mm. 
thick, with several tubular sheaths. Leaves distichous, 4-5 
cm. apart, 8.5-13 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. wide, narrowly oblong- 
lanceolate, tapering to a blunt tip, contracted at base into a 
sheathing tubular petiole, nervose. Peduncle arising from a 
complanate spathe-like bract, with the raceme 4.5 cm. long 
(spathe 3 cm. long), furfuraceous, blackish when dry. 
Raceme about ten-flowered, 3.5 cm. long in the type (longer 
as the apical flowers mature). Floral bracts cymbiform, 
2 cm. long when fully developed, lanceolate, acuminate. 
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