NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
Limodorum Lankesteri A. & S. sp. nov. Herba terres- 
tris, data. Folia stricta, lanceolato-linearia, longe acuminata. 
Pedunculus glaber, apice laxe bi- vel triflorifero. Flores gran- 
des. Sepala lateralia lanceolata, acuminata, in dorso valde 
carinata. Sepalum dorsale oblanceolatum. Petala oblance- 
olata, apice acuto vel bidentato. Labellum ultra medium 
conspicue trilobatum; discus carinis quinque ornatus. 
Plant tall, 45.5 cm. high (bulbous (?) base missing). 
Leaves 2 in our specimen, lanceolate-linear, acuminate, very 
gradually tapering to a channeled petiole, about 25-27 cm. 
long, 8-8.5 mm. wide, many-nerved with 3-5 conspicuous 
ones, strict, base enclosed—together with the base of the 
peduncle—by 2 imbricating unequal scarious oblong-lance¬ 
olate sheaths. Inflorescence 43.8 cm. tall, erect, loosely 2- 
to 3-flowered at the summit, provided below the middle with 
1 close tubular sheath which is 2.3-2.5 cm. long. Floral 
bracts lanceolate, up to 2 cm. long, long acuminate, scarious, 
subequaling the pedicellate ovary, erect. Flowers large. 
Lateral sepals lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 3.15-3.4 cm. 
long, about 8-11 mm. wide, acuminate, complicate-mucro- 
nate, conspicuously unicarinate dorsally especially above, 
8- to 11-nerved, somewhat oblique. Dorsal sepal oblance- 
olate, 3.2 cm. long, 7.9-8 mm. wide above the middle, acute 
or acuminate with margins complicate at the tip, 9-nerved 
near the base. Petals similar to the dorsal sepal but thinner 
in texture, narrowly oblanceolate, about 3-3.4 cm. long, 
7-7.8 mm. wide above the middle, acute, sometimes ob¬ 
liquely bidentate at the apex, anterior margins more or less 
irregular, 5-nerved near the base. Labellum elliptic in out¬ 
line, conspicuously 3-lobed in the fourth anterior part with 
the lateral lobes and the sides of the middle lobe incurved in 
natural position, 2.85-3.2 cm. long, 1.8-2.2 cm. wide in the 
middle when expanded; free portion of the lateral lobes 
broadly rounded, the anterior margins irregularly crenate; 
middle lobe ovate or ovate-subquadrate, abruptly acute or 
mucronate, 8.1-11 mm. long, 8.1-8.3 mm. wide, margins 
undulate, lateral edges irregularly crenate. Disc traversed 
in the center by 5 nerves which are fleshy-thickened near 
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