NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
one running nearly to the apex. Column 4.5 mm. long, 
strongly clavate, conspicuously dilated in front; clinandrium 
with a blunt triangular tooth on each side. Anther semi- 
ovoid, 2-celled, with a blunt dorsal keel and short apical 
truncate wing. Pollinia complanate semiellipsoid. 
The description was made from a single herbarium 
specimen. 
Epidendrum subnutans is in the alliance of E. floribundum 
HBK. and E. myodes Reichb. f., but it has a very different 
lip from that of either of these species. It has much smaller 
flowers than E. nutans Sw. 
Costa Rica, La Palma, A. M. Brenes 593, June 4, 
1923. 1200 meters altitude. Epiphyte. Cultivated at San 
Ramon. (Type in Herb. Ames No. 31115.) 
Epidendrum triangulabium A. & S. sp. nov. Herba 
parva, epiphytica. Rhizoma repens, vaginis imbricantibus 
omnino obtectum. Caules breves, foliorum vaginis laxis 
omnino inclusi. Folia disticha, elliptica, late patentia. In- 
florescentiae perbreves, uniflorae, terminales et laterales. 
Sepala lateralia oblique lanceolata, acuminata. Sepalum 
dorsale oblongo-oblanceolatum. Petala elliptico-linearia. 
Labellum in circuitu late triangulare, obscure trilobatum, 
mucronatum. 
Plant small, up to 9 cm. tall. Rhizome creeping, 
enveloped by loose tubular imbricating membranaceous 
sheaths. Roots fibrous, filiform, flexuous, glabrous. Stem 
short, up to 7 cm. high, entirely concealed by loose dis- 
tichously imbricating leaf-sheaths. Leaves elliptic, 1.3-2.3 
em. long, 6-11 mm. wide, obtuse with a minutely and ob¬ 
liquely bilobed apiculate tip, clasping at base, about 7-15 
Kun. apart, widely spreading, chartaceous, mid-nerve sul- 
cate above and prominently carinate beneath. Inflores¬ 
cences apparently 1-flowered, solitary, lateral and terminal; 
the very short peduncle appears to have been enclosed by 
fibrous evanescent sheaths. Perianth parts connivent. Lat¬ 
eral sepals obliquely lanceolate, about 1.15 cm. long, 3.1 
Wm. wide near the middle, acuminate, 5-nerved. Dorsal 
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