NEW OR NO'niWORTIIY 0]U:HIDS 
C.osTA Rica, Peralta, C. H. Lankester 484, July 13, 1923. 
Leaves dull purplish beneath. Sepals and labellum dark 
maroon, the upper sepal paler than the laterals. Petals 
hyaline faintly tipped with purple. 2500 feet altitude. 
(Type in Herb. Ames No. 26973.) 
Pleurothallis peregrina Ames sp. nov. Radices 
libratae, glabrae. Caules secundarii caespitosi, elongati, 
vaginis tubulatis arete appressis vestiti. Folium clliplico- 
oblongum, apice valde obtusum. Pedunculi fasciculati, 
folium superantes, racemo multilloro. Sepala lateralia usque 
ad basim libera, anguste lanceolata, intus glandulosa, apice 
incrassata. Sepalum dorsale simile, apice triquetrum. Pe- 
tala oblonga, obtusa, leviter concava, nervo medio extus 
per medium prominenti. Labellum breviter unguiculatum, 
infra medium valde incrassatum, supra medium in laminam 
suborbicularem expansum, trinervium, nervis lateralibus in 
Carinas elevatas productis, nervo medio leviter prominenti. 
Columna gracilis, apice minute dentata. 
Roots elongated, branching, smooth, whitish. Rhizome 
abbreviated. Secondary stems densely caespitosc, 10-17 
cm. long, slender, at the base about 2 mm. in diameter, erect, 
provided with several elongated tubular closely appressed 
brownish sheaths, monophyllous. Leaf petiolate; petiole 
1.5-2 cm. long, slender, sulcate above; lamina 6-8 cm. long, 
2-3 cm. wide, elliptic-oblong, rounded at the tip, incon¬ 
spicuously apiculate, rigid. Peduncles fasciculate in the 
axil of the leaf, arising from a short spathaceous bract which 
is 1 cm. long, floriferous almost to the base. Raceme in¬ 
cluding the peduncle 10-14 cm. long, about twice longer than 
the leaf. Rracts of the raceme tubular, scarious, 3-1 mm. 
long. Pedicels with the ovary 5 mm. long, smooth. Lateral 
sepals 1.1-1.5 cm. long, about 3 mm. wide below the middle, 
narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, acute, 3-nerved, free to the 
base, glandular on the inner surface. Dorsal sepal similar to 
the laterals, tric{uetrously thickened near the lip, 3-nerved. 
Petals 4-4.5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, oblong or slightly di¬ 
lated upward, rounded at the tip, with the mid-nerve promi¬ 
nent on the outer surface. Labellum 5 mm. long, 1 mm. 
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