NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
fleshy, panduriform, obtuse, glandulose. Disc conspicuously 
bicarinate, with the keels extending nearly to the apex of the 
labellum. Column including the foot 3 mm. long, dilated 
upward, with a tooth on each side near the summit; clinan- 
drium behind the anther sparsely and shortly laciniate or 
bifid. Pollinia two. 
A very distinct species without any close allies in 
Central America. [Fig. 4.] 
Costa Rica, Cartago, La Estrella, C. H. Lankester .& 
Alfredo Sancho 401. A delightful scandent species occurring 
in forest-ridges. (Type in Herb. Ames No. 24726.) 
Lepanthes eximia Ames sp. nov. Herba pusilla, epi- 
phytica, inconspicue hispidula. Caules caespitosi, usque ad 
quinquevaginati, erecti vel ascendentes, graciles, monophylli. 
Vaginae ore acuminato, elongatae, caules obtegentes, arete 
appressae, nervis maculatis. Folium ellipticum, mar¬ 
ginatum, bidenticulatum apiculo interjecto. Pedunculi 
singuli vel fasciculati. Racemi pauciflori. Sepala lateralia 
vix usque ad medium cohaerentia, lanceolata, subacuta, 
margine glandulosa, uninervia nervo carinato. Sepalum 
dorsale triangulare, acutum, margine sparse glandulosum, 
trinervium nervo medio carinato glanduloso. Petala lin- 
earia, margine anteriore protuberanti. Labellum sub- 
quadratum vel oblongum, antice profunde bilobatum; lo- 
bis rotundato-obtusis, porrectis. Discus glaber. Columna 
brevis. 
Epiphytic herb 2.5-3.5 cm. high. Secondary stems 
1-2.5 cm. long, caespitose, sheathed, unifoliate. Sheaths 
about five, closely oppressed, muriculate on the longitudinal 
nerves, expanded abruptly into an ovate-lanceolate acumi¬ 
nate tip which is marginate and muriculate on the margin. 
Leaf elliptical, up to 1 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, coriaceous, 
distinctly marginate, abruptly contracted at base into an 
abbreviated petiole, tridenticulate at the apex, the middle 
tooth an apiculate continuation of the mid-nerve. Pe¬ 
duncles few or solitary in the axil of the leaf, with the few- 
flowered raceme about 1 cm. long, slender. Flowers minute, 
solitary or as many as three in a loose raceme. Bracts of the 
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