NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
Costa Rica, Province of Guanacaste, Vicinity of Til- 
aran, Paul C. Standley & Juvenal Valerio 44933, January 10- 
31, 1926. 500-650 meters altitude. “On tree; flowers red¬ 
dish green.” (Type in Herb. Ames No. 33595); Standley & 
Valerio 44205. “Flowers bronze green or sometimes pale 
green throughout”; Standley & Valerio 44206a: Northeast of 
Tilarhn, C. W. Dodge 7148, February 20, 1930. 680 meters 
altitude. Flowers greenish; Province of Cartago, Vicinity 
of Pejivalle, Standley cfc Valerio 47299, February 7-8, 1926. 
About 900 meters altitude. “Leaves often dark purple- 
red; flowers green.” (Advanced specimen): Lower Rio Tur- 
rialba, H. E. Stork 2446, June 9, 1928. 2000 feet altitude. 
‘FIs. inconspicuous, pale green.” 
Epidendrum exiguum A. & S. sp. nov. Herba epiphyt- 
lea, pusilla. Caules humiles, simplices vel paulo ramosi, 
distichophylli, foliorum vaginis omnino obtecti. Folia par- 
"vula, ovalia, in apice bilobata, late patentia. Inflores- 
eentiae terminales; racemi abbreviati, pauciflori. Rracteae 
eonspicuae, conduplicatae. Sepala lateralia oblique trian- 
gulari-lanceolata, in apice carinata. Sepalum dorsale lanceo- 
lato-oblongum. Petala linearia. Labellum columnae valde 
adnatum; lamina anguste triangularis, in basi cordata. 
Plant epiphytic, dwarf, up to 9.2 cm. tall. Roots fi¬ 
brous, filiform, glabrous. Stems simple or often with one 
short branch, entirely concealed by sheaths of which 
the lower ones appear scarious and without leaf-blades. 
Leaves oval or round-elliptic, up to 1 cm. long and 5 mm. 
^ide, obtusely bilobed, clasping at the rounded base, cori¬ 
aceous, the mid-nerve sulcate above and sharply carinate 
beneath, horizontally spreading. Inflorescence racemose, ter¬ 
minal, abbreviated, 2- to 4-flowered, erect. Floral bracts 
conspicuous, broadly ovate, up to 6.5 mm. long, condupli- 
cate, scarious, rigid-nervose. Flowers small, rigid-nervose. 
Lateral sepals obliquely triangular-lanceolate, anterior mar- 
Sm at base gradually dilated, 5-5.5 mm. long, about 1.7 
mm. wide near the base, acute, with a prominent dorsal keel 
extended into a mucro at the apex. Dorsal sepal lanceolate- 
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