NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
The description was made from dried specimens and 
from a flower preserved in formalin. 
Costa Rica, Pejivalle, C. H.Lankesier 928 {1109), June 
1924. (Flowered at Las Concavas, December 1925.) Sepals 
Old Gold (Ridgway XVI), cream-colored at tips and cen¬ 
trally along keel to apical fourth. Petals similar, a warmer 
tinge. Lip vinaceous purple, fringes and edges above whitish, 
beneath amber-yellow. (Type in Herb. Ames No. 35585.) 
Sobralia Bouchei A. & S. sp. nov. Herba epiphytica 
vel terrestris. Caulis teres, glaber. Folia disticha, oblongo- 
elliptica vel lanceolata, sessilia, novem nervis subtus con- 
spicuis. Flos terminalis, singulus. Sepala lateralia elliptico- 
oblonga, acuta. Sepalum dorsale simile, paulo longius. 
Petala latiora, elliptico-oblanceolata. Labellum in basi con- 
volutum; lamina expansa obovata, bilobata, carinis novem 
percursa. 
Plant epiphytic or terrestrial, 50-75 cm. tall. Stem 
terete, glabrous, about 3 mm. in diameter, the lower portion 
partially enveloped by close tubular striate leaf-sheaths, the 
upper part almost entirely enveloped by them. Leaves 
lanceolate to oblong-elliptic (the uppermost blades lanceo¬ 
late-ovate), up to 17.7 cm. long and 4.7 cm. wide, shortly 
acuminate with a tridenticulate tip, sessile with a cuneate or 
subrounded base, subcoriaceous, with 9 nerves rather prom¬ 
inent beneath (the outer ones marginal), erect-spreading, 
the lower blades remote, the upper ones subapproximate. 
Flower solitary, showy, the ovary enclosed by 3 close im¬ 
bricating sheaths of which the lower ones are leaf-bearing. 
Sepals and petals lilac or rose-purple, spreading. Labellum 
yellow in the throat shading to red on the sides and apex, 
the margins strongly undulate and lacerate. Lateral sepals 
elliptic-oblong, 5.7 cm. long, 1.7 cm. wide, acute with a dor¬ 
sal mucro. Dorsal sepal similar, slightly broader above the 
middle, 6.2 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide. Petals broader than the 
sepals, elliptic-oblanceolate, slightly oblique, about 5.9 cm. 
long and 2.2 cm. wide beyond the middle, acute, anterior 
margins somewhat lobulate. Labellum convolute at base; 
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