NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
duncle or pedicels, and is characterized in part by a more or 
less simple labellum and much-branched stems. [Fig. 5.] 
Panama, Province of Chiriqui, Palo-alto Hill, C. W. 
Powell 280, February to March 1923. Grows in medium 
sunny places, rare. Sepals and petals olive-green, labellum 
green with a purple sheen. 6000 feet altitude. (Type in 
Herb. Ames No. 25006.) 
Epidendrum cobanense Ames A: Schltr. sp. nov. 
Herba epiphytica. Caules caespitosi, erecti vel ascendentes, 
vaginati, paucifolii. Vaginae foliorum usque ad ostium 
dilatatae, transverse rugosae, rigidae. Folia teretia ut 
videtur, carnosa, acuta, oblique ascendentia, disticha, inter 
se satis distantia, rigida, in sicco longitudinaliter rugosa. 
Inflorescentia ex axilla folii superioris oriens. Bracteae infra 
pedunculum duae, spathaceae, imbricatae, in sicco scariosae, 
pedicellum cum ovario excedentes, valde complanatae. 
Pedicellus cum ovario in sicco longitudinaliter plurisulcatus. 
Sepala lateralia valde carnosa, rigida, ligulata, acuta, 
margine nonnihil revoluto. Sepalum dorsale simile. Petala 
valde carnosa, anguste oblonga, apice hamata, supra me¬ 
dium triquetra. Labellum trilobatum, supra medium valde 
deflexum; lobis lateralibus erectis, columnae appressis, sub- 
carnosis, antice rotundatis, quam lobo medio multo bre- 
vioribus; lobo medio valde incrassato, subtereti, apice sub- 
acuto vel obtuso. Discus callosus. Columna carnosa, abbre- 
viata, semilibera, apice integra. 
Epiphytic herb with stems 10-30 cm. high, character¬ 
ized by obliquely ascending distichous terete leaves and by 
fleshy flowers borne singly at the summit of each stem. 
Stems eaespitose or crowded, rising from a dense mass of 
fibrous roots, simple, concealed by the sheathing bases of the 
leaves. Sheaths 1-2.5 cm. long, rigid, dilated upward to a 
wide opening, 5 mm. wide at the summit, transversely 
wrinkled. Leaves six to eight, jointed to the sheaths, 
3-7 cm. long, apparently terete, 2-3 mm. in diameter in 
dried specimens, obliquely ascending, somewhat curved, 
the uppermost leaf subtending the spathaceous bracts of 
the infloreseence. Flower solitary. Pedieellate ovary about 
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