NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
Standley & Valerio 50365. “Flowers dull yellow”; Standley 
& Valerio 50411. “Flowers yellow”; Standley & Valerio 
50427. “Flowers reddish yellow”; Standley & Valerio 
50538. “Flowers red-yellow”; Standley & Valerio 50565. 
“Flowers dull pale red”; Standley & Valerio 50594. “Flow¬ 
ers pale green”; Standley & Valerio 50660. “Flowers reddish 
yellow”; Standley & Valerio 50680. “Flowers pale greenish 
red”: Cerro de las Caricias, North of San Isidro, Standley & 
Valerio 52076, March 11, 1926. 2000-2400 meters altitude. 
“On tree; flowers dull yellow”; Standley & Valerio 52093 (no 
flowers); Standley & Valerio 52420. “Flowers straw-yellow.” 
Octomeria Valerioi A. & S. sp. nov. Herba epiphytica, 
pro genere magna. Rhizoma repens, lignosum. Caules sub- 
approximati, quadriarticulati, monophylli. Folium lineari- 
oblongum, erectum. Flores fasciculati, perparvi. Sepala 
lateralia oblongo-lanceolata. Sepalum dorsale latius. Petala 
elliptico-lanceolata. Labellum subquadrato-ovatum, prope 
basim utrinque minute lobatum, bicarinatum, in apice trun- 
eato trilobulatum. 
Plant large for the genus, over 38 cm. tall. Rhizome 
stout, creeping, branching, woody, concealed by evanescent 
sheaths. Roots fibrous, flexuous, stout, glabrous. Stems 
subapproximate, 11-19.2 cm. long, monophyllous, erect 
from a decumbent base, composed of 5 internodes, mostly 
concealed by 5 tubular sheaths which are successively larger 
Upward and waste into fibers in anthesis. Leaf linear-oblong, 
15.6- over 19.4 cm. long (most of the blades broken off be¬ 
low the tip), 1.15-1.65 cm. wide, rigidly erect, somewhat 
narrowed above to a minutely bilobed and apiculate apex, 
cuneate-narrowed to a scarcely petioled sulcate base, thickly 
coriaceous, mid-nerve sulcate above and carinate beneath. 
Flowers fascicled in the axil of the leaf, small (buds only are 
present). Lateral sepals oblong-lanceolate, 4.9 mm. long, 
f-9 mm. wide, 3-nerved, obtuse with a short apical mucro 
on the outer surface. Dorsal sepal similar but broader, lan¬ 
ceolate, about 2.4 mm. wide. Petals elliptic-lanceolate, very 
Similar to the dorsal sepal but slightly shorter. Labellum 
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