NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
vaginis maxima pro parte obtecti. Folia ligulata, in apice 
prominenter bilobata, patenlia. Racemi terminales, pauci- 
flori, floribus distichis. Sepala lateralia triangulari-lanceo- 
lata, acuminata. Sepalum dorsale oblongo-lanceolatum. 
Petala oblique linearia. Labellum tubulari-involutum, tri- 
angulari-cordatum, obscure trilobatum. 
Plant epiphytic, diffusely branching. Roots fibrous, 
filiform, glabrous, issuing from the nodes of the stem com¬ 
monly in the lower portion. Stem widely branching, mostly 
concealed by the rugose leaf-sheaths which are evanescent 
in the lower part, complanate. Leaves lanceolate-oblong to 
figulate, up to 5.2 cm. long and 7 mm. wide (usually much 
smaller), abruptly bilobed at the apex with rounded lobules, 
sessile, spreading, coriaceous but apparently not fleshy, the 
mid-nerve more or less sulcate above and carinate beneath. 
Racemes simple, terminal, often on short lateral branches, 
loosely few- (up to 9) flowered. Rachis ancipitous, stout. 
Ploral bracts complanate, equitant, deltoid, very obtuse, 
dorsally keeled, conspicuous, about 5-7 mm. long on the 
outer side, the lowermost commonly sterile. Perianth parts 
Spreading, fleshy-rigid. Lateral sepals triangular-lanceolate, 
^•1-9.5 mm. long, about 3 mm. wide near the base, slightly 
oblique, acuminate with a thickened dorsally carinate apex. 
Rorsal sepal oblong-lanceolate, 8-8.9 mm. long, about 2 
mm. wide, acute, dorsally keeled at the apex. Petals nar¬ 
rowly linear, more or less oblique, 7.7-8.2 mm. long, acute or 
obtuse. Labellum adnate to the column up to the tip, tubu¬ 
lar-involute with the semiorbicular base of the lamina en- 
"^cloping the apex of the column, very fleshy; lamina when 
expanded ovate-cordate, obscurely 3-lobed, 6 mm. long, 
nearly 6 mm. wide near the base, slightly indented in the 
middle of each side, acuminate; disc with a 3-lobulate ex¬ 
cavated callus at base. Column stout, fleshy, about 3 mm. 
long. 
The description was made from herbarium specimens. 
Epidendrum anoglossoides is closely allied to E. anoglos- 
^tn Schltr., but it differs markedly in its prominent obtuse 
Oral bracts, thinner leaves and presence of a lip-callus. Its 
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