CENTRAL AMERICAN ORCHIDS 
to 3.5 cm. long. Raceme up to 1.5 cm. long, flexuose. 
Flowers seven or more, 2 mm. apart on obliquely ascending 
rigid pedicels, usually only one flower open at a time. Bracts 
glandulose. Lateral sepals 1.4 cm. long, about 2 mm. wide 
near the base, oblong-triangular, acute, sparsely glandulose 
on the upper surface to about the middle, densely glandular- 
ciliate on the margin, lightly carinate near the outer margin. 
Dorsal sepal 1.4 cm. long, about 4 mm. wide near the base, 
coherent with the lateral sepals, more or less oblong below 
the middle, from below the middle more or less elongated, 
triangular, abruptly contracted above to form a slender 
caudate tip, margin glandulose, prominently 3-nerved on 
the outer surface, the nerves glandulose. Petals transversely 
elongated, 4 mm. wide, hardly 1 mm. long, posterior portion 
oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, the anterior portion linear-tri¬ 
angular. Labellum 3-lobed, about 1.5 mm. long; lateral 
lobes subelliptical-dolabriform, extended posteriorly into 
blunt triangular auricles, in front more or less oblong, 
minutely ciliate on the margin, longitudinally carinate near 
the inner margin on the upper surface; mid-lobe about 
.5 mm. long, linear, about equaling the anterior portion of 
the lateral lobes, porrect, densely glandular, somewhat 
bulbous at the apex. Column slender, coarsely and un¬ 
equally fringed at the apex. 
In habit similar to Lepanthes horrida Reichb. f., but with 
a very different labellum and petals. 
Costa Rica, Road to La Estrella, C. H. Lankester & 
Alfredo Sancho 441, February 9, 1923. Sepals acajou-red or 
jasper-red (Ridgway) on inner surface. Dorsal sepal 
3-keeled, the keels hispid, bordered on either side with a 
stripe of red, otherwise hyaline, yellowish green. 1700 
meters altitude. (Type in Herb. Ames No. 23162.) 
Epidendrum alanjense Ames Sched. Orch. 1 (1922) 13. 
Encyclia Powellii Schltr. in Fedde Repert. Beihefte 17 
(1922) 46. 
I have examined the type number of Encyclia Powellii 
Schltr. without being able to detect specific characters to 
separate it from Epidendrum alanjense. 
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