NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
Lepanthes confusa >4. & S. sp. nov. Herba caespitosa, 
in magnitudine valde variabilis. Caulis pluriarticulatus, 
monophyllus. Folium ellipticum vel suborbiculare. In- 
florescentiae singulae vel duae, folio breviores, superne ra- 
cemosae. Sepala conspicue cellulari-ciliata, ovata, lateralia 
obliqua. Petala in lobos triangulari-lanceolatos transverse 
extensa. Labellum trifidum; lobi laterales dolabriformes; 
lobus intermedins minutus, quadratus. 
Plant epiphytic, extremely variable in size, up to 7.7 
cm. high. Stems (flower-bearing) slender, 5 mm.-5.4 cm. 
long, consisting of 3-8 internodes enveloped in minutely 
hispid sheaths of which the infundibuliform mouths are 
somewhat spreading and hispid-margined. Leaf solitary, 
elliptic to suborbicular, 1-2.7 cm. long, 7-13.5 mm. wide, 
acute or rounded at the apex, cuneate and shortly petioled 
at base, erect, coriaceous, margined, often violet-tinged. 
Inflorescences commonly 1-2, more or less shorter than the 
leaf, densely few- to many-flowered above. Flowers small, 
membranaceous. Sepals densely cellular-ciliate. Lateral 
sepals obliquely lanceolate-ovate, semiconnate, up to 2.3 
mm. long, acute, 2-nerved, the inner nerve running to the 
apex and prominently carinate on the outer surface. Dor¬ 
sal sepal ovate, up to 3 mm. long, acuminate, 3-nerved, the 
mid-nerve carinate on the outer surface. Petals transversely 
extended into two lobes, pubescent; posterior lobe narrowly 
triangular-lanceolate, up to 1.9 mm. long, broadest at base, 
abruptly obtuse, slightly outcurved; anterior lobe somewhat 
shorter, oblong-triangular, up to 1.3 mm. long, straight, acute 
or obtuse. Labellum tripartite, about equaling the column; 
lateral lobes dolabriform, peltate at the dilated apex with 
narrowly ovate pubescent surfaces which are about 1 mm. 
long, acute at the tip; middle lobe minute, quadrate, densely 
pilose. Column about 1 mm. long, somewhat dilated above. 
Pollinia 2, pyriform. 
This deseription was made from several dried speci¬ 
mens. 
Lepanthes confusa is closely allied to L. blepharistes 
Reichb. f., but it differs from that species in having rounded 
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