NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
oblong, tapering gradually to an acute tip, undulate on the 
margin, 3-nerved. Labellum 8 mm. long, entire, 4.5 mm. 
wide above the middle, about 2 mm. wide at base where 
it is contracted into an oblong 5-nerved claw, expanded in 
front of the claw into an elliptical obtuse lamina. Crest in 
front of the claw about 3 mm. long, very fleshy, composed 
of seven porrect keels, the central one tridentate at the 
apex, the others laterally compressed and obtuse. Column 
simple, about 7 mm. long, fleshy. Pollinia two, subsessile 
on an oblong disc. 
Trinidad, B. W. I., Rio Claro — Guyaguayare Road, 
7th mile, R. A. Farfan s. n., December 5, 1922. (Type in 
Herb. N. Y. Rot. Card.) 
Bulbophyllum lipense Ames sp. nov. Rhizoma longe 
repens. Pseudobulbi semifusiformes, monophylli, inter se 
distantes. Folium ligulatum, apiculatum, utrinque at- 
tenuatum, septemnervium. Scapus quam folium longior, 
gracilis, uniflorus. Sepala lateralia triangularia, acuminata, 
subcaudata, trinervia, mentum obtusum formantia. Se- 
palum dorsale lanceolatum, in apicem caudatum productum. 
Petala lanceolata, margine glanduloso-ciliata, uninervia. 
Labellum supra medium valde deflexum, dense glanduloso- 
pubescens, basi rotundata duplicatum. Columna in pedem 
longum producta, apice in stelidia lineari-triangularia erecta 
producta. 
Roots slender, fibrous, from the base of the pseudobulbs. 
Rhizome creeping, elongated, very slender, .75 mm. thick. 
Pseudobulbs 5-10 mm. apart, 1 cm. long, tapering upward 
from a broad base, monophyllous. Leaf 2-3 cm. long, 3 
mm. wide, narrowly ligulate, tapering to both ends, apiculate, 
contracted at base into a short petiole or epetiolate, char- 
taceous when dry, 7-nerved, nerves unequal in length, closed. 
Scapes up to 3.5 cm. long, filiform, with a single tubular 
sheath near the base, bearing a single flower at the summit. 
Pedicel with the ovary about 3 mm. long, slender, smooth, 
subtended by an infundibuliform bract about 1 mm. long. 
Lateral sepals 6-7 mm. long, about 2 mm. wide near the 
base, decurrent on the slender foot of the column, forming 
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