NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
Plant small and slender, 5-6 cm. tall, epiphytic. Stems 
up to 3.7 cm. tall, filiform, consisting of 4-8 internodes 
tightly clothed with tubular sheaths of which the nerves 
and infundibuliform mouths are minutely hispid. Leaf ellip¬ 
tic or ovate-elliptic, 1.4-2 cm. long, 4.5-8 mm. wide, erect, 
acute or acutish, minutely tridenticulate at the apex, very 
shortly petioled, coriaceous, more or less purplish-tinted. 
Inflorescences 1-4, axillary, subequaling or slightly surpass¬ 
ing the leaf; peduncles up to the raceme filiform, rarely up 
to 2 cm. long. Raceme densely distichous-flowered above 
the base, the lowermost flowers often subremote; rachis up 
to 1 cm. long. Floral bracts shallowly infundibuliform, his¬ 
pid on the outer surface. Flowers very small. Lateral 
sepals lanceolate, about one-third connate, 4 mm. long, up 
to 1.8 mm. wide at base of free portion, oblique with slightly 
outcurving acute apices, 2-nerved, prominently unicarinate 
on the outer surface, minutely cellular-ciliolate. Dorsal sepal 
similar but a little broader, 3-nerved, smooth on the mar¬ 
gin. Petals sigmoid in outline, transversely bilobed; pos¬ 
terior lobe oblong-linear, nearly 2.5 mm. long, slightly out- 
curved, obtuse, 1-nerved; anterior lobe smaller, falcate-lan¬ 
ceolate, incurved, about 1.5 mm. long. Labellum minute, 
transversely oblong, very obscurely 3-lobed, about .5 mm. 
long and 2 mm. wide across the spreading lobes; lateral lobes 
obliquely oblong or dolabriform, gently incurved, obtuse; 
niiddle lobe indistinct, very broadly rounded to semior- 
bicular, apiculate. Column minute, dilated upward. 
This description was made from dried specimens. 
Lepanthes acoridilabia is remarkable because of its 
strange lip which strongly recalls the lip of some Philippine 
^coridium. Vegetatively similar to L. Acostaei Schltr. and 
L. oreocharis Schltr. 
Costa Rica, Province of San Jose, near Finca La Cima, 
above Los Lotes, North of El Copey, Paul C. Standley 
42717, December 21-22, 1925. 2100-2400 meters altitude. 
On oak tree; flowers purple-red.” (Type in Herb. Ames 
No. 33482.) 
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