CENTRAL AMERICAN ORCHIDS 
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crescentiform and retuse-apiculate in front, with a spread of 
6 mm., about 1 mm. wide; lateral lobes divaricate, 3 mm. 
long, up to 2 mm. wide, oblong, obtuse, together equaling 
the spread of the terminal lobe; isthmus of the labellum ab¬ 
breviated, hardly 1 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide. Disc of the 
labellum with a sulcate callus between the lateral lobes and 
a thickened ridge through the middle. Column 6-7 mm. 
long, bilobed at the summit, with the lobes minutely den¬ 
ticulate. 
The nearest affinity of this species appears to heEpiden- 
drum pansamalae Schltr., which has larger flowers and a 
very different labellum and column. 
Costa Rica, Cascajal, C. H. Lankester 60. Flowers 
rose-purple, fragrant. 5500 feet altitude. (Type in Herb. 
K-ew.)-, Lankester K359. Flowers rose. 5500 feet altitude. 
(Herb. Kew.); Lankester K367. Flowers rose. 6000 feet 
altitude. (Herb. Kew.) 
Epidendrum cristobalense Ames sp. nov. Caules 
elongati, foliosi. Folia ligulata, usque ad apicem attenuata, 
valde coriacea, acuta, basi vaginantia. Pedunculus valde 
elongatus, in racemum multiflorum productus. Bracteae 
pedunculi arete vaginantes, complanatae, imbricatae, acu- 
tae, elongatae. Bracteae inflorescentiae lineari-triangulares, 
acutae. Flores carnosi, inter se distantes. Sepala lateralia 
deflexa, oblongo-elliptica, obtusa, valde incrassata. Sepalum 
dorsale simile, concavum. Petala spathulata, valde carnosa, 
carinata. Labellum cum columna cohaerens, cordatum, 
valde carnosum, subconduplicatum, carinatum. Columna 
brevis, carnosa. 
Stems elongated, leafy. Leaves coriaceous, up to 19 
cm. long, 8 mm. or more wide, narrowed toward the apex, 
acute. Peduncle sheathed by several elongated complanate 
imbricating bracts, which are from 5 to 12 cm. long, and 
acute at the tip. Raceme 5 dm. or more long, 1.5 cm. in 
diameter, bearing as many as fifty pinkish flowers, arching 
or drooping. Flowers 1 cm., more or less, apart. Floral 
bracts rigid, linear-triangular, acute, about 5 mm. long. 
Pedicels with the ovary about 5 mm. long. Lateral sepals 
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