NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
minal, 1-flowered, much shorter than the leaves, with several 
closely imbricating sheaths which reach to the base of the 
ovary. Flower-stalk and ovary about 3 cm. long, slender, 
glabrous. Lateral sepals about 11 mm. long, 5 mm. wide 
below the middle, triangular, acute, 7-nerved. Dorsal sepal 
about 11 mm. long, carinate beneath the acute apex, tri¬ 
angular, 7-nerved. Petals about 11 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, 
narrowly oblong or ligulate, narrowed above the middle into 
a subacute tip, membranaceous, 5-nerved. Labellum 1 cm. 
long, 8 mm. wide above the middle, broadly pandurate, 
entire, obtuse, inserted on the broad foot of the column. 
Column about 5 mm. long, fleshy at the base, dilated above, 
conspicuously winged on each side above the middle. 
Allied to Pachystele densa Schltr., but much larger in 
all its parts, with different sepals and petals, and with pustu¬ 
lar roots. 
Costa Rica, Province of San Jose, Las Nubes, Paul C. 
Standley 38909, March 20-22, 1924. 1500-1900 meters alti¬ 
tude. On tree. (Type in Herb. Ames No. 29711.) 
Ponera striata Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 28 (1842) Misc. 
18, 19. 
Specimens referable to this species have been received 
from C. H. Lankester. My records do not show that Ponera 
striata has been heretofore reported from Costa Rica. 
Costa Rica, Peralta, C. H. Lankester 955. (Material in 
alcohol: No. 940.) Flowers hyaline, streaked with pink-pur¬ 
ple. In cultivation at Las Concavas, November 9, 1924. 
Jacquiniella globosa {Jacq.) Schltr. in Fedde Repert. 
Beihefte 7 (1920) 124. 
Epidendrum globosum Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. (1760) 
29; Jacq. Sel. Stirp. Am. (1763) 222, t. 133, fig. 1. 
This species has not been reported heretofore from 
Costa Rica. Although the Costa Rican specimens examined 
are in bud, they are clearly referable to Jacquiniella globosa 
(Jacq.) Schltr. 
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