TROPICAL AMERICAN ORCHIDS 
Sepala lateralia extus glanduloso-pubescentia, men turn 
elongalum saccatum formantia, basi cohaerenlia, lanceolata. 
Sepalum dorsale erectum cum pelalis in galeam elongatam 
connatum, extus glanduloso-pubescens. Petala inaequaliter 
spathulala, margine anteriore sparse glanduloso-pubescentia 
infra medium. Labellum elongalum, columnae adhaerens, 
explanatum subpanduriforme, basi sagitlatum, supra me¬ 
dium valde dilalatum, prope apicem valde constrictum, 
rotundatum, obtusum. Discus glanduloso-pubescens, callo 
forcipato ornatus. Columna elongata; rostellum in mem- 
branam oblongo-linearem productum. 
l^ools fasciculate, fleshy, 4-8 cm. long, up to 7 mm. in 
diameter, villous. Stem abbreviated, entirely concealed by 
an ample scarious loosely appressed sheath which is about 
1.5 cm. long. Leaves two. Petioles 15-16 cm. long, slender, 
obliquely ascending, sulcate, winged on each side; lamina 
of the leaf 13-18 cm. long, 6-8 cm. wide, narrowly to broadly 
ovate, acuminate, acute, dark green above with a distinct 
mid-nerve. Scape excluding the raceme 20 cm. long, with 
about six lanceolate closely appressed bracts, pubescent 
above. Raceme about 12 cm. long, 3-4 cm. in diameter, 
loosely many-flowered. Rachis glandular-pubescent. Pedi¬ 
cels obliquely ascending, with the ovary about 1 cm. long, 
subtended by linear-lanceolate ascending bracts. Lateral 
sepals including the mentum 2.4 cm. long, about 3 mm. 
wide above the middle, glandular-pubescent on the outer 
surface, above the base narrowly oblong, upper half lanceo¬ 
late, acute. Mentum glandular-pubescent, the free portion 
4 mm. long, obtuse. Dorsal sepal L7-L8 cm. long, 4.5 mm. 
wide, somewhat spatulate, obtuse, adherent to the petals 
and with them forming a slender hood. Petals up to 1.8 cm. 
long, about 3 mm. wide above the middle, spatulate from a 
slender base, obtuse, sparsely glandular on the anterior 
margin below the middle. Labellum adnate to the column, 
2.1-2.2 cm. long, 6 mm. wide above the middle, when de¬ 
tached and spread out narrowly panduriform from a sagit¬ 
tate base, dilated above the middle, strongly constricted 
3 mm. below the rounded obtuse apical lamina, scurfy on the 
outer surface, pubescent within below the middle. Auricles 
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