NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
Sepalum dorsale ovato-lanceolatum. Petala oblongo-Ian- 
ceolata. Labellum apici columnae adnatum; lamina reni- 
formi-semiorbicularis, mucronata. 
Plant dwarf, epiphytic, forming dense mats, rarely up 
to 6.6 cm. tall, often much branched. Roots fibrous, filiform, 
glabrous. Stem entirely concealed by densely imbricating 
leaf-sheaths which are about twice the length of the inter¬ 
nodes. Leaves approximate, distichous, widely spreading, 
oblong or ovate-oblong, strongly clasping at base, reach¬ 
ing 1.9 cm. in length, about 6 mm. wide when expanded, 
sharply carinate beneath, obtuse, the sides strongly revo¬ 
lute and rugose in the dried specimen, margins minutely 
erose. Inflorescences terminal, commonly 2-flowered, ses¬ 
sile. Floral bracts ovate, conduplicate, imbricated, den¬ 
ticulate. Flowers green, bronze green or reddish green. 
Lateral sepals and petals obliquely inserted on the column. 
Lateral sepals very obliquely ovate-lanceolate, 9-13 mm. 
in length along the decurrent posterior margin, 3.2-4.2 
mm. wide, acuminate, with a high dorsal keel which is 
denticulate above, 2- to 3-nerved. Dorsal sepal ovate-lan¬ 
ceolate, 8.8-13 mm. long, 4.1-4.7 mm. wide, acuminate, 3- 
nerved, with a low entire dorsal keel near the apex. Petals 
oblong-lanceolate, nearly as long as the sepals, 2.5-3 mm. 
wide, acute or subacute, 3-nerved, margins minutely dentic¬ 
ulate. Labellum adnate to the column to its apex; lamina 
with sides upcurved in natural position, very shortly and 
broadly unguiculate, then abruptly reniform-semiorbicular, 
sharply mucronate, 4.5-6.1 mm. long to the tip of the cusp, 
5-7.6 mm. wide, fleshy, margins thin and minutely erose. 
Column stout, 5-6.6 mm. long; clinandrium fimbriate- 
dentate. 
This description was made from dried specimens. 
Epidendrum congestoides is closely allied to F. congestum 
Rolfe, but it differs from that species in its narrower petals, 
in the apiculate reniform-semiorbicular lamina of the lip and 
in the lacerate clinandrium. This species is doubtless what 
Schlechter refers to (Fedde Report. Beih. 19 (1923) 118) as 
E. congestum. 
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