NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
spreading-pubescent. Lateral sepals 11.6 mm. long, abruptly 
caudate, connate to a point beyond the middle into a deeply 
concave lamina which is 4-nerved with nerves deeply carinate 
on the outer surface, loosely long hairy dorsally especially 
on the margins, oblique at the base; free part excluding the 
tails ovate, oblique, 3.6 mm. long; tails nearly 4 mm. long, 
thickened. Dorsal sepal apparently free from the lateral 
sepals (as in M. picturata Reichb. f.), lanceolate, long caudate, 
8.7 mm. long, about 2.5 mm. wide across the basal concave 
portion, 3-nerved with nerves carinate dorsally, outer sur¬ 
face with sparse long hairs. Petals long for the genus, lan¬ 
ceolate, long caudate above, 6.5 mm. long, about 1.9 mm. 
wide near the base, central margins irregularly fimbriate, 
prominently 1-nerved. Labellum obovate in outline, deeply 
and densely fimbriate except near the base, about 6 mm. 
long and 4.5 mm. wide, broadly rounded in front, cuneate 
at base with smooth margins, slightly constricted below the 
middle. Thus the labellum might be called obscurely 3- 
lobed. Disc 3-nerved with the mid-nerve long and thickened 
near the apex, divided into 2 portions; basal part minutely 
biauriculate, entirely without hairs or papillae, bounded in 
front by concave converging keels which extend retrorsely 
to each side, smooth at the very base, then abruptly callose- 
thickened through the center, the thickening soon dividing 
into 2 branches which extend to the tips of the converging 
keels; anterior portion much larger, suborbicular, densely 
studded with pointed papillae. Column about 3.3 mm. long, 
rather broadly winged above the base, a pair of thin lon¬ 
gitudinal keels near the center. Anther 2-celled. 
Masdevallia funbriata was described from a little plant 
preserved in formalin. It appears to be most nearly allied 
to M. triaristella Reichb. f., and to M. linearifolia Ames, 
but it has markedly dissimilar petals and lip from those 
species. 
Costa Rica, “52 Miles” (the new forest opened up 
across the Reventazon River by the bridge built at that 
mile-post on the F. C. C. R.), C. II. Lankester 1176. 900- 
1700 feet altitude. (Type in Herb. Ames No. 34219.) 
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