TROPICAL AMERICAN ORCHIDS 
striate-rugose in the dried specimen, obtuse or acutish, the 
lower and larger 7-14 cm. long, the average 2-3 cm. long, 
the smallest 8 mm. long, all 1-1.5 mm. wide. Inflorescences 
very short, racemes at the tips of lateral branches (lateral 
branchlets sometimes minute and consequently the inflo¬ 
rescence appears to be lateral), laxly 1-3-flowered; rachis 
slender, fractiflex, with the peduncle about 1.5 cm. long, 
1-sheathed at base. Floral bracts about 5 mm. long, scarious, 
spreading, striate-nervose, dorsally carinate. Flower small, 
6.8 mm. long, perianth parts rigid-nervose. Lateral sepals 
obliquely lanceolate, about 6.8 mm. long, 2 mm. wide below 
the middle, acuminate, apical margins complicate, 5-nerved. 
Dorsal sepal similar, narrowly lanceolate, slightly narrower. 
Petals linear, 6 mm. long, .75 mm. wide near the base, ob- 
tusish. Labellum sessile, tubular-involute in natural position, 
when expanded triangular, lightly constricted above the 
middle, 4 mm. long, 3 mm. wide at the subcordate base, a 
3-toothed keel in the middle, the central tooth extending 
nearly to the acute apex of the labellum. Column short and 
stout, 3 mm. long. 
Epidendrum ramosissimum is allied to E. lancilabium 
Schltr., but is distinct in its smaller flowers, 3-nerved petals, 
and 3-carinate lip. [Plate 24: habit life size. 1, labellum and 
column, side view X 3. 2, dorsal sepal X 2 <?, lateral 
sepal X 2 4, petal X 2 3^. 3, labellum, front view X 
Costa Rica, El Calvario, Ujarras, C. H. Lankester 581, 
January 12, 1924. 3600 feet altitude. “Very common at this 
wind swept locality.” (Type in Herb. Ames No. 28129.) 
Epidendrum reflexum A. <& S. sp. nov. Herba caes- 
pitosa. Caules vaginis omnino inclusi, prope basim aphylli. 
Folia disticha, lanceolata vel oblongo-lanceolata, promi- 
nenter acuminata, quam inflorescentia paulo longiora. Pe- 
dunculus trivaginatus. Flores pro sectione parvi. Sepala lat- 
eralia oblanceolato-oblonga, acuta, valde carinata. Sepalum 
dorsale anguste ellipticum. Petala filiformia. Labellum tri- 
lobatum; lobi laterales transverse oblongi; lobus medius in 
lobulos lineares transverse divergens. 
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