NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
or merely acute leaves, fewer cauline sheaths with incon¬ 
spicuous mouths, and lanceolate petal-lobes. 
Costa Rica, Province of Limon, Hamburg Finca, on 
the Rio Reventazon below Cairo, Paul C. Standley & Juvenal 
Valerio 48709, February 19, 1926. About 55 meters al¬ 
titude. “On cacao tree; sepals reddish green; lip dark red; 
petals dull yellow.” (Type in Herb. Ames No. 33489): 
Province of Guanacaste, Naranjos Agrios, Standley & 
Valerio 46439, January 29, 1926. 600-700 meters altitude. 
“On tree; flowers red and green”; Standley & Valerio 
46440a. 
Lepanthes decipiens A. & 5. sp. nov. Herba pusilla, 
caespitosa. Caules fdiformes, pauciarticulati, vaginarum 
ostiis patentibus hispidis. Folium ellipticum. Inflores- 
centiae singulae vel duae, folii dimidium aequantes, dense 
racemosae. Sepala lateralia oblique ovata, semiconnata. 
Sepalum dorsale elliptico-ovatum. Petala obverse reni- 
formia, lobis subaequalibus. Labellum trilobatum; lobi lat- 
erales obovato-oblongi, comparate conspicui; lobus inter- 
Riedius minutus, saccatus. 
Plant epiphytic, caespitose, small, up to 4.3 cm. tall. 
Roots fibrous, filiform, flexuous, glabrous. Stems filiform, 
Up to 3 cm. long, composed of 5-6 internodes, tightly en¬ 
closed in minutely scabrous sheaths which flare into prom¬ 
inent hispid infundibuliform mouths. Leaf solitary, elliptic, 
up to 14 mm. long, 5-7 mm. wide, obtuse or subacute with a 
uiinutely tridenticulate apex, cuneate at base with a very 
short petiole, erect, chartaceous. Inflorescences 1-2, equal¬ 
ing about one-half the leaf, densely few-flowered. Flowers 
uiinute, membranaceous. Lateral sepals obliquely ovate, 
about 2.1 mm. long, very little over half connate, acute, 
2-nerved, the inner nerve dorsally carinate. Dorsal sepal 
elliptic-ovate, about 3 mm. long, up to 1.75 mm. wide in the 
Uiiddle, acute, 3-nerved. Petals obversely reniform, 2-lobed, 
uiargins minutely cellular; posterior lobe obliquely ovate- 
ublong, about 1.6 mm. long, rounded at the apex; anterior 
lobe very similar. Labellum 3-lobed; lateral lobes obovate- 
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