NEW OR NOTKWOirnn' ORCHIDS 
apiciilata, septemnervia. Sepalum dorsale elliplicum, acu- 
lum, seplemnervium. Pelala anguste spathulata, valde 
obtusa vel nonnihil truncata, trinervia vel nonnihil bi- 
nervia. Labellum subsimplex vel obscure trilobatiim; 
lobis lateralibus minutis oblusis; lobo medio transverse 
ellipLico, leviter emarginato, septemnervio. Discus prope 
basim columnae bicarinatus vel bicallosus. Columna crassa, 
superne dilatala. 
Roots fleshy up to 6 cm. or more long, fasciculate, 
whitish in dried specimens. (Leaves wanting in the type. 
In specimen collected by Palmer & Riley 187, up to 17 cm. 
long, terete, 2.5 mm. in diameter, rigid, obliquely ascending, 
acute.) Plant about 5 dm. tall, above the leaf (at inter¬ 
vals of 3-4 cm.) provided with closely appressed nervose 
acute tubular sheaths which are about 1.5 cm. long. Ra¬ 
ceme 16-25 cm. long, bearing fifteen or more flowers. Bracts 
of the inflorescence 3-6 mm. long, lanceolate, acuminate, 
acute, spreading. Pedicel with the ovary about 1 cm. long, 
slender, obliquely ascending, smooth. Lateral sepals 7 mm. 
long, 3 mm. wide, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, obscurely 
apiculatc, 7-nerved. Dorsal sepal about 7 mm. long, el¬ 
liptical, acute, 7-nerved. Petals 7 mm. long, 1 mm. wide 
above the middle, narrowly spatulate, subacute obtuse or 
sometimes truncate, 2-3-nerved, rather fleshy. Labellum 
subsimple, the lateral lobes being much reduced, 9.75 mm. 
long; lateral lobes .75 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, obtuse; 
middle lobe including the cuneate isthmus 7 mm. long, 
1 cm. wide, transversely elliptical or reniform, shallowly emar- 
ginate, 7-nerved, with the outer nerves branched. Disc 
shortly bicarinate near the base of the column. Column 
4 mm. long, dilated upward. 
Teiramicra simplex is most closely related to T. ienera 
(A. Rich.) Rolfe, from which it differs in the reniform mid¬ 
lobe and in the much reduced obtuse lateral lobes of the 
labellum. 
Cuba, Isle of Pines, near Los Indios, Olio E. Jennings 
644, May 19, 1910. (Type): Pinar del Rio Province, near 
El Gauma in mountains, William Palmer & J. H. Riley 197, 
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