ORCHIDACEAE QUAEDAM AMERICANAE 
lum dorsale ovato-lanceolatum, usque ad apicem attenua- 
tum, acutum, basi rotundatum. Petala transverse sub- 
crescentiformia, antice rotundata, utrinque attenuata, ad 
apices laterales acuta vel subacuta, margine minute et 
breviter ciliolata. Labellum subquadratum, antice profunde 
bilobatum, lobis obtusis ciliolatis. Columna apice bilobata. 
Roots fibrous, spreading. Secondary stems erect or 
ascending, when mature about 3 cm. long, with four elon¬ 
gated tubular sheaths which are lanceolate and acute at the 
summit, nerves of the sheaths hispidulous. Leaves with 
the abbreviated petiole up to 22 mm. long, 8-13 mm. wide; 
lamina orbicular, apiculate, tridenticulate at the apex, 
marginate, coriaceous, up to 1.9 cm. long; petiole deeply 
sulcate. Peduncle arising from the axil of the leaf, about 
9 mm. long, with a closely appressed bract near the middle, 
few-flowered. Bracts subtending the flowers infundibuli- 
form. Lateral sepals coherent to about the middle, about 
2 mm. long, forming a suborbicular bilobed lamina 2 mm. 
wide, lobes somewhat deltoid, acute, 1 mm. wide. Dorsal 
sepal coherent at base with the laterals, about 3 mm. long, 
ovate-lanceolate, acute, tapering to the tip from about the 
middle, rounded at base. Petals transversely 4 mm. long, 
1 mm. long through the longitudinal middle, subcrescenti- 
form, the apex nearest the labellum acute, the apex nearest 
the dorsal sepal obtuse, margin minutely ciliolate. Label¬ 
lum 1.5 mm. long, up to 1.25 mm. wide, subquadrate-cordate, 
the base with a rounded lobe on each side, apex deeply 
cleft to about the middle or bilobed, lobes subquadrate, 
obtuse, ciliate, convergent. Column slender up to the 
bilobed apex. 
Allied to Lepanthes iurialvae Reichb. f., but in part 
distinguished by the ciliate terminal lobes of the labellum. 
Guatemala, Department of Alta Verapaz, Samac, 
Harry Johnson 880, October 20, 1920. On trees. 4500 
feet altitude. (Type in Herb. Ames No. 22748.) 
Epidendrum benignum Ames sp. nov. Caules elon- 
gati, foliosi. Folia disticha, elliptico-oblonga, utrinque at¬ 
tenuata, coriacea, persistentia. Pedunculus terminalis. 
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