NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
unidentate on each side near the base, the anterior tooth be¬ 
ing prominent and falcate-lanceolate. Labellum lanceolate 
in outline, 3-lobed, about 1 cm. long including the minute 
i claw, rounded at the base with a thickened margin, abruptly 
truncate at the apex; lateral lobes very small and incon¬ 
spicuous, triangular-falcate, incurved, acuminate, setulose; 
middle lobe semiorbicular at base then abruptly narrowed 
to form an elongate oblong termination of which the mar¬ 
gins, especially the lateral ones, are shortly and irregularly 
lacerate. Disc 3-nerved, with 2 fleshy converging keels near 
the margins of the suborbicular basal portion, the oblong 
terminal part densely, papillose on the inner surface. Column 
slender, arcuate, clavate above, with a prominent triangular 
fleshy dilation at the base. 
Restrepia Lankesteri is apparently allied to R. subser- 
rata Schltr., but it has larger flowers (particularly the sepals) 
and a wider lip which is not tridentate at the apex, 
j The description was prepared from dried specimens and 
material preserved in formalin. 
Costa Rica, La Estrella de Cartago, C. H. Lankester & 
A. Sancho 423, January 12, 1923. 1500-1700 meters al¬ 
titude. (One specimen of this collection is proliferous.) 
(Type in Herb. Ames No. 26184); Lan/ces/er 1141 (flowered 
at Las Concavas, December 1926-January 1927). 4500- 
6000 feet altitude. In wet forest. The collector’s notes of 
this number state that the lower (lateral) sepals were densely 
spotted with carmine, giving a dark orange-red appearance, 
turning paler to the cream-colored tip; the lip ciliate, dull 
orange-red densely and finely spotted with two acuminate 
crescent-shaped greenish yellow processes on either side near 
the base of the column, an orange spot on each side; the 
clavate dorsal sepal and petals hyaline streaked with red- 
purple; column cream-color with central purple stripe on 
the back. 
Pleurothallis acicularis A. 3c S. sp. nov. Herba nana, 
pusilla, dense caespitosa. Caules perbreves, monophylli, 
vaginis pluribus imbricatis maxima pro parte velati. Folia 
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