NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
1.4-2 mm. wide, broadly rounded at the apex, 1-nerved. 
Labellum sigmoid and deeply saccate in the lower half, 
about 4.4 mm. long in natural position, 3-nerved. The an¬ 
terior half is dilated with erect margins and broadly ovate- 
triangular when expanded with rounded apex. Disc with 
conical fleshy callus beyond the middle, the branches of 
the lateral veins prominent. Column stout, shorter than 
the labellum with a pair of prominent semiorbicular porrect 
wings near the base. 
The description was prepared from dried specimens. 
Cranichis acuminatissima appears to be nearly related 
to C. sylvatica A. Rich. & Gal., but differs in its very acu¬ 
minate leaves which are cauline as well as basal, and in its 
pubescent ovaries and larger lip. In habit, this plant is 
very similar to C. saccata Ames, but it has a very different 
lip. 
The specific name refers to the very acuminate leaves. 
Costa Rica, Province of Heredia, Cerros de Zurqui, 
Northeast of San Isidro, Paul C. Standley & Juvenal Valerio 
50409, March 3, 1926. 2000-2400 meters altitude. “On 
log; sepals green; lip and petals white.” (Type in Herb. 
Ames No. 33210); Standley & Valerio 50428. “Wet forest, 
terrestrial”: Province of Heredia, Cerro de las Caricias, 
North of San Isidro, Standley & Valerio 52156, March 11, 
1926. 2000-2400 meters altitude. “On log in forest.” 
(Plants immature.) 
Ponthieva maculata Lindl. in Ann. & Mag. Nat. 
Hist. 15 (1845) 385. P. Rrenesii Schltr. in Fedde Repert. 
Beihefte 19 (1923) 165. 
Ponthieva maculata was originally found in Colombia 
(Bogota) and was subsequently discovered in Venezuela and 
Mexico. Later a Costa Rican specimen, found by Biolley, 
Was referred to this species by Schlechter. A number of 
collections from Costa Rica, made by Standley, are refer¬ 
able to the same species. 
The plants collected by Standley are rather low herbs 
with the inflorescence sometimes conspicuously surpassing 
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