ORCHIDACEAE QUAEDAM AMERICANAE 
pubescens. Gynostemium elongatum, gracile, rostello pro- 
ducto. 
Roots stout, about 4-5 mm. in diameter, villiferous. 
Leaf long-petiolate; petiole apparently rising from the roots; 
lamina 15 cm. long, 6.7 cm. wide near the middle, elliptic, 
apex triangular-acuminate, acute, rounded at base where 
it is abruptly contracted into the sulcate petiole, charta- 
ceous when dry; petiole 16 cm. long, slender. Scape 30 cm. 
long, clothed at the base by several tubular loosely op¬ 
pressed sheaths, above the base ornamented with about three 
sheathing alternate acute bracts which are 3.7-3.9 cm. long; 
below the inflorescence there are three linear acute bracts 
which are obliquely ascending and mostly free. Raceme 
about 9 cm. long, elongating during anthesis, lax, about 
4.5 cm. in diameter; rachis glandular-pubescent. Bracts 
of the inflorescence about 2 cm. long when the flowers are 
expanded, linear, acute, ascending, somewhat glandular- 
pubescent near the base. Pedicel abbreviated, with the 
glandular-pubescent ovary about 1 cm. long. Lateral sepals, 
including the free spur-like mentum, about 2 cm. long, linear- 
oblong, glandular-pubescent, spreading. Mentum blunt. 
Dorsal sepal about 1.5 cm. long, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, 
3.5 mm. wide near the middle, tapering gradually to a broad 
base, acuminate from above the middle to form a blunt tip, 
densely glandular-pubescent, 3-nerved. Petals adherent 
to the dorsal sepal, about 1.4 cm. long, linear-lanceolate, 
acute, glandular-pubescent on the outer margin. Labellum 
1.8 cm. long, constricted near the apex where it is 3-lobed, 
when spread out elongated-panduriform with a sagittate 
base; lateral lobes rounded, small, hardly 1 mm. wide (at 
the base of the middle lobe the lamina of the lip is about 
4 mm. wide); middle lobe 3 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide; above 
the sagittate base the limb of the labellum is densely glan¬ 
dular-hairy and about 1.75 mm. wide. Gynostemium about 
1 cm. long, very slender below the dilated summit; rostel- 
lum about 1.5 mm. long. 
From Pelexia Funckiana (A. Rich. & Gal.) Schltr., with 
which it is allied, the broader leaf with elongated petiole 
and relatively shorter scape are differentiating characters. 
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