NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
basi cordata auriculis obtusis incurvis. Columna apice 
lacerato-dentato. 
Roots whitish, glabrous. Secondary stems caespitose, 
more or less erect, 6 cm. long when mature, concealed by 
closely appressed sheaths, monophyllous. Sheaths four to 
seven, brownish when dry, conspicuously nerved, with the 
nerves prominent and more or less hispidulous, dilated at 
the tip into a round-ovate marginate hispid lamina which 
is 3 mm. long on the uppermost sheaths. Leaf 2-3 cm. long, 
up to 1.4 cm. wide, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, weakly margi¬ 
nate, narrowed into a short sulcate rigid petiole, glabrous. 
Peduncles several, concealed at the base by an elongated 
slenderly infundibuliform brownish sheath which is more or 
less hispid on the nerves, fasciculate, shorter than the leaf, 
flowering in succession, bearing as many as six dark red and 
greenish flowers in a slender raceme. Floral bracts hyales- 
cent, glabrous, enclosing the pedicels. Raceme up to 12 
mm. long, the terminal flower sometimes reaching to the 
middle of the leaf. Rachis smooth. Ovary scarcely 1 mm. 
long, glabrous. Lateral sepals smooth on the outer surface, 
3.5 mm. long, united to about the middle, narrowly triangu¬ 
lar, obtuse, forming with the foot of the column a distinct 
mentum which is 1 mm. long, margins finely glandular- 
ciliate, the free portion of each sepal distinctly 3-nerved. 
Dorsal sepal 4 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, oblong-lanceolate, 
obtuse, strongly concave at the base, 3-nerved, margin in¬ 
conspicuously glandular-ciliolate above the middle. Petals 
2 mm. long, scarcely 1 mm. wide, oblong to oblong-lanceo¬ 
late, narrowed to a very acute tip, irregularly flmbrillate on 
the margin above the middle, 1-nerved. Labellum 2.5 mm. 
long, about 1 mm. wide, narrowly oblong, obtuse, 3-nerved, 
with the margin glandular-ciliolate, at the base shortly 
clawed with an auricle on each side of the claw and a thick¬ 
ening in front of it. Column about 2 mm. long, produced 
into a conspicuous foot, dilated upward to the finely den¬ 
ticulate or flmbrillate apex. 
Closely allied to Pleurothallis peraltensis Ames, which is 
distinct in its subpandurate labellum with more conspicuous 
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