NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
by the reflexed sepals to summit of the ovary. (Type in 
Herb. Ames No. 24135.) 
Notylia Lankesteri Ames sp. nov. Pseudobulbi mihi 
non visi. Folium coriaceum, oblongum, obtusum, nervo 
medio subtus prominenti, basi rotundatum. Pedunculus 
validus, infra racemum bracteis scariosis acuminatis vesti- 
tus, dependens. Racemus cylindricus, densiflorus, bracteis 
flores subtendentibus lineari-triangularibus scariosis ova¬ 
rium pedicellatum excedentibus. Flores albidi.petalis auran- 
tiaco-maculatis. Sepala lateralia usque ad basim libera, 
vix patentia, elliptico-ovata, valde concava, acuta, apice 
incrassata, breviter et obscure apiculata. Sepalum dorsale 
simile. Petala elliptica, basi breviter et late unguiculata, 
leviter concaviuscula, intus prope basim aurantiaco-macu- 
lata. Labellum valde carnosum, ovato-lanceolatum, acutum, 
apice lateraliter compressum, margine plus minusve erecto, 
prope basim callo triangular! valde complanato erecto in 
medio disci ornatum. Callus antice in carinam prominentem 
productus. Columna generis. 
Pseudobulbs not seen. Leaf with the abbreviated pet¬ 
iole 12.5 cm. long, 3 cm. wide, oblong, obtuse, with the 
median nerve prominent beneath, rounded at the base and 
rather abruptly contracted to form the conduplicate petiole, 
coriaceous, bilobed at the apex. Petiole about 1 cm. long. 
Peduncle pendent, about 2 mm. thick, clothed below the 
raceme with several elongated scarious acuminate bracts. 
Raceme 4 cm. or more long, about 1 cm. in diameter, 
cylindrical, densely many-flowered. Bracts of the raceme 
4-5 mm. long, linear-acuminate, scarious, exceeding the 
pedicellate ovary. Flowers white with the petals finely 
spotted with orange, aromatic, fleshy. Lateral sepals free, 
5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide near the middle, elliptic-ovate, 
acute, thickened near the tip, shortly apiculate, 3-nerved, 
fleshy, very strongly concave, hardly spreading, rather 
porrect beneath the labellum. Dorsal sepal similar, 5 mm. 
long, strongly concave, obscurely, if at all, apiculate. Petals 
4.5 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide near the middle, lightly concave, 
elliptical, obtuse from a broad abbreviated unguiculate base. 
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