NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
Plant small and very slender, caespitose, up to 7.2 cm. 
m height. Roots fibrous, flexuous, filiform, glabrous. Stems 
fdiform, up to 2.1 cm. long, entirely concealed by 4-5 close 
tubular glabrous sheaths which have spreading infundibuli- 
form mouths. Leaf solitary, at the summit of the stems, 
elliptic, 8.5-9.5 mm. long including the very short petiole, 
about 3.4-3.8 mm. wide, coriaceous, conduplicate in the 
dried specimen, minutely tridenticulate at the tip, margined. 
Inflorescence commonly solitary (rarely the remnants of 3 
peduncles persist), much surpassing the leaf, about 4.7-5.6 
cm. long. Peduncle up to the raceme very slender, with 
several remote inconspicuous tubular sheaths. Raceme 
up to 2.2 cm. long, suberect to arcuate, distichously many- 
flowered; rachis fractiflex, the lowermost flowers subremote. 
Floral bracts minute, shallowly infundibuliform, glabrous, 
niuch shorter than the pedicellate ovary. Flowers small, 
yellow in the herbarium specimen. Lateral sepals connate 
into a broadly ovate lamina which is about 3.8 mm. long, 
3 mm. wide near the base, sharply bidentate to about one- 
third the length, 4-nerved. Dorsal sepal ovate or triangular- 
ovate, about 4 mm. long, 2.3-2.5 mm. wide, subacuminate, 
3-nerved. Petals transversely bilobed, pubescent; posterior 
lobe oblong, slightly falcate and outcurved, about 1.4 mm. 
long, rounded at the tip; anterior lobe smaller, ovate, about 
1 mm. long, rounded at the apex. Labellum 3-lobed, about 
•9 mm. long in the middle, about 1.4 mm. wide at base; 
lateral lobes relatively large, dolabriform-incurved with a 
stout oblique keel running along near the rounded outer 
margin; middle lobe minute. Column a little shorter than 
the labellum, dilated above; clinandrium slightly retuse at 
the back; rostellum 3-dentate. 
Lepanthes fractiflexa was described from herbarium 
specimens. It recalls L. Loddigesiana Reichb. f., but differs 
Irom that species in its smaller leaves, relatively much longer 
peduncles, larger flowers and obscure middle lobe of lip. 
L- Dussii Urb. is apparently similar in habit. 
Cuba, Province of Oriente, Curva de I’Aura, Loma 
Cardero, Pico Turquino, G. C. Rucker 30, October 12- 
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