NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
structum, ante callos breviter bisulcatum. Columna carnosa, 
labello adhaerens. Cl. Powell, qui plantam vivam exam- 
inavit, addit, quae supra de coloribus dicta sunt. 
A much-branched epiphytic herb with two, or perhaps 
sometimes three, leaves at the summit of each flower-bearing 
branch. Roots coarse, spreading, 3-4 mm. in diameter, 
longitudinally sulcate when dry. Primary stem rigid, about 
3 mm. thick, smooth, with the nodes 1.5-2 cm. apart, about 
7 cm. long to the first branch, leaf-bearing branches 3-3.5 
cm. long, clothed with whitish elongated tubular sheaths 
which are more or less dilated at the mouth, 2-leaved. 
Leaves subcoriaceous, approximate, 4-5.5 cm. long, up to 
1.2 cm. wide, oblong, tapering from above the middle to an 
acute tip, at base narrowed and abruptly contracted into a 
short conduplicate petiole. Peduncle with the rachis of the 
abbreviated raceme up to 3.3 cm. long, bialate, with a large 
triangular bract below the raceme, complanate. Raceme up 
to 1.2 cm. long, bearing seven or more fleshy olive-green 
flowers. Bracts of the raceme 3-6 mm. long, rigid, concave, 
triangular, acute, obliquely ascending, shorter than the 
pedicellate ovary. Pedicel with the ovary smooth, about 
1 cm. long. Lateral sepals up to 1.5 cm. long, 6.5 mm. wide, 
oblong, acute, asymmetrical. Dorsal sepal 12 mm. long, 
6 mm. wide, oblong, acute. Petals 11-12 mm. long, 2.5 mm. 
wide above the middle, linear-spatulate, acute or obtuse. 
Labellum adherent to the column, expanded above into a 
suborbicular retuse lamina, including the adherent base 
1.5 cm. long; lamina 9 mm. long, 11-12 mm. wide, strongly 
convex. Disc smooth, with two papilliform calli at base 
in front of the tip of the column, shortly bisulcate in front of 
the calli. Column fleshy, 7 mm. long. 
The nearest allies of this species are Epidendrum Viejii 
Reichb. f., E. propinquum A. Rich. & Gal., E. ledifolium 
A. Rich. & Gal. and A. tetraceros Reichb. f. Fromi?. Viejii, 
which is more similar to it than any of the other species 
named, it is distinguished by its much larger flowers, erect, 
not decurved, peduncles and by the different calli on the disc 
of the labellum. It belongs to that section of Euepidendrum 
which lacks large spathaceous bracts subtending the pe- 
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