NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
cm. long, ancipitously winged. Floral bracts short, in- 
fundibuliform, extended into a triangular point, dorsally 
carinate. Flowers fleshy. Sepals horizontally spreading. Lat¬ 
eral sepals obovate-elliptic, strongly oblique, 6 mm. long, 
3.9 mm. wide near the middle, acute and thickened at the 
apex, many-nerved. Dorsal sepal similar, obovate-elliptic, 
6 mm. long, about 3.4 mm. wide above the middle, subacute. 
Petals spatulate-cuneate, 5.2 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, broadly 
rounded at the apex with a minute apicule. Labellum ad- 
nate to the column to about the middle; lamina white, 
strongly concave and surrounding the column in natural 
position, semiorbicular when spread out, 3-lobed, 4.9 mm. 
long, about 8 mm. wide; lateral lobes suborbicular in out¬ 
line, irregularly and deeply lacerate with 6-8 linear or tri¬ 
angular-linear teeth of which the forward one on each side 
is abruptly recurved, a similar tooth on each side below the 
apex on the under surface; middle lobe much smaller, tri¬ 
angular-subquadrate, about 1.25 mm. long and subequally 
wide at the base, terminating abruptly in a rounded or sub¬ 
acute apex, very fleshy and subquadrate in cross-section. 
Disc traversed in the middle by 3 rather high approximate 
keels, the lateral ones ending abruptly below the base of the 
middle lobe, the central extending into the middle lobe and 
near its base raised into a blunt point. A lower indistinct 
keel lies near the base of the lamina on each side. Column 
very stout, dilated upward, about 4.1 mm. long. Pollinia 
obliquely complanate-pyriform. 
The description was made from herbarium specimens. 
Epidendrum Alfaroi is rather closely allied to E. Wercklei 
Schltr., but it differs in its racemose inflorescence, dissimilar 
lobes of the lip and keels. The color of the flowers is also 
distinctive. 
Costa Rica, La Fuente, Anastasia Alfaro 174, August 
23, 1925. 1200 meters altitude. Sepals and petals chocolate 
color, lip white. (Type in Herb. Ames No. 31331.) 
Epidendrum anoglossoides A. A S. sp. nov. Herba 
epiphytica, valde ramosa; radices e nodis orientes. Caules 
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