CENTRAL AMERICAN ORCHIDS 
Plant similar to Lepanthes inaequalis Schltr., but dis¬ 
similar to it in the long acuminate leaves and overlapping 
petals. The conspicuously tridentate leaves are characteristic, 
and in this peculiarity it also resembles L. inaequalis Schltr. 
Costa Rica, Cartago, road to La Estrella, C. H. 
Lankester & Alfredo Sancho 432, February 9, 1923. Stem 
and bracts dull straw-color, leaves dull, velvety, horn-green, 
trifid at the apex. Sepals yellowish, hyaline, other segments 
pruinose orange-purple. 1700 meters altitude. (Type in 
Herb. Ames No. 23747.) 
Lepanthes Sanchoii Ames sp. nov. Herba epiphytica. 
Radices fibratae. Caules secundarii erecti vel ascendentes, 
vaginis dense muricatis vestiti, monophylli. Vaginae apice 
dilatatae, marginatae. Folium ellipticum, coriaceum, apice 
bidentatuni apiculo interjecto. Pedunculi graciles, fascicu- 
lati. Racemus distichiflorus, flexuosus. Pedicelli oblique 
ascendentes. Bracteae inflorescentiae glandulosae. Sepala 
lateralia longe triangularia, supra sparse glandulosa, acuta 
vel subobtusa, margine conspicue glandulosa. Sepalum 
dorsale prope basim oblongum, longe acuminatum, in 
caudam filiformem productum, margine glandulosum, tri- 
nervium, nervis prominentibus, extus glandulosis. Petala 
transverse elongata, latiora quam longiora, vel transverse 
bilobata lobo posteriore oblongo-lanceolato, obtuso, lobo 
anteriore lineari-triangulari, subacuto. Labellum triloba- 
tum; lobis lateralibus unguiculatis, subellipticis, glandulosis, 
utrinque obtusis, margine interiore carinatis; lobo medio 
lineari, parvo, inter lobos laterales, porrecto, dense glandu- 
loso. Columna gracilis, apice crasse fimbriata vel laciniata, 
laciniis valde inaequalibus. 
Epiphytic herb with slenderly fibrous roots. Secondary 
stems 3-6 cm. long, concealed by from six to eleven elon¬ 
gated muricate closely oppressed sheaths, monophyllous. 
Sheaths about 6 mm. long, dilated at the apex, the ex¬ 
panded rim marginate and muricate. Leaf about 2.7 cm. 
long, 6 mm. wide, elliptical, marginate, bidentate-apiculate 
at the apex, contracted below into an abbreviated con- 
duplicate base. Peduncles fasciculate, with the raceme up 
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