NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
This description was prepared from a series of dried 
specimens. 
Lepanthes inaequiloba bears a general resemblance to 
L. Turialvae Reichb. f., but it has very different petals from 
that species. It is apparently closely allied to L. Barbae 
Schltr., but it differs in having ovate instead of lanceolate 
sepals, dissimilar petals and longer column. The specific 
name is in reference to the very unequal lobes of the petals. 
Costa Rica, Province of San Jose, Laguna de la Chonta, 
Northeast of Santa Maria de Dota, Paul C. Standley 42304, 
December 18, 1925. 2000-2100 meters altitude. “On tree; 
flowers pale yellow-green; lip yellow.” (Type in Herb. Ames 
No. 33488); Standley 42312. “Flowers pale greenish yellow; 
lip yellow”; Standley 42318. “In wet forest; flowers pale 
greenish yellow; lip yellowish white with dark red spot”; ' 
Standley 42591. “Sepals pale reddish yellow; lip red-pur- ] 
pie”: Near Finca La Cima, above Los Lotes, North of El 
Copey, Standley 42678, December 21-22, 1925. 2100-2400 
meters altitude. “On oak tree; flowers greenish yellow with 
dark red center; leaves purple beneath.” 
Lepanthes latisepala A. & S. sp. nov. Herba parvula, 
caespitosa. Caules filiformes, vaginis arctis hispidis tubulari- 
bus omnino inclusi. Folium ellipticum vel ovatum, valde 
coriaceum. Inflorescentiae saepissime singulae, folio sub- 
aequales. Sepala persimilia, latissime ovata, acuta. Petala 
transverse bilobata, in circuitu sigmoidea; lobo anteriore 
minore, falcato-incurvo. Labellum trilobatum; lobi laterales 
peltato-dolabriformes; lobus intermedins minutus, recurvus. 
Plant small, caespitose, 2.8-7 cm. high to the tip of the 
erect leaf. Roots fibrous, filiform, flexuous, glabrous, longi¬ 
tudinally sulcate in the dried specimen. Stems 1-6.3 cm. 
long, very slender, composed of 2 to 8 internodes, entirely 
concealed by close tubular sheaths which are hispid on the 
longitudinal nerves and terminate in flaring infundibuliform j 
long-mucronate hispid mouths. Leaf solitary, elliptic to 
ovate, indistinctly petioled, 1.35-2.6 cm. long, 4-10.6 mm. 
wide in the dried plant, minutely tridenticulate at the tip, | 
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