NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
oblong and incurved, about 1 mm. long, rounded at the apex, 
the inner basal half marked by an oblique pubescent keel, 
the pubescent outer surface with a longer oblique keel which 
gradually diminishes toward the apex; middle lobe minute, 
ovoid, deeply saccate, acute, densely pilose without. Col- i 
umn shorter than the side lobes of the labellum, dilated | 
above, the rostellum 3-lobed. Pollinia complanate-pyri- 
form. 
The description was prepared from dried specimens. 
Lepanthes decipiens appears to be closely allied to the 
smaller forms of L. Lindleyana Reichb. f., but the flowers of 
our plant possess a very dissimilar lip and have almost equal 
petal-lobes which are merely minutely cellular-ciliolate. 
The specifie name is in allusion to the apparent similarity 
of this plant to L. Lindleyana. 
Costa Rica, Province of San Jose, Oak forest near ^ 
Quebradillas, about 7 km. North of Santa Maria de Dota, 
Paul C. Standley 43070, December 24, 1925. About 1800 
meters altitude. “On tree; flowers dark red-purple.” (Type 
in Herb. Ames No. 33487.) 
Lepanthes eximia Ames Sehed. Oreh. 5 (June 1923) 
21. L. abnormis Sehltr. in Fedde Repert. Reihefte 19 (No¬ 
vember 1923) 21. 
An analytical drawing of L. abnormis together with the 
type description shows that this species is unquestionably 
referable to the older L. eximia. 
Lepanthes fractiflexa A. & S. sp. nov. Herba gracil- 
lima, caespitosa. Caules pergraciles, pluriarticulati, vaginis 
tubularibus omnino obtecti. Folium singulum, parvum, in 
siccitate conduplicatum, expansum ellipticum. Inflorescen- 
tiae saepissime singulae, filiformes, folia multo superantes, 
multiflorae. Rhachis fractiflexa. Sepala lateralia in 1am- 
inam late ovatam aeute bidentatam connata. Sepalum 
dorsale ovatum. Petala transverse bilobata, lobo posteriore ' 
majore. Labellum perparvum, trilobatum; lobi laterales 
dolabriformes, incurvi; lobus intermedius minutus. 
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