NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
narrowly lanceolate to narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, 9-22 
mm. long, 2-4.5 mm. wide near the middle, acute, densely 
rugose when dry. Inflorescence commonly paniculate with 
short strict branches which have few flowers congested at 
the apices, subequaling or surpassing the leaves. Floral 
bracts lanceolate, spreading, much shorter than the slender 
pedicellate ovary. Flower large for the plant. Lateral sepals 
oblong-lanceolate, about 6 mm. long, 1.2-1.5 mm. wide, con¬ 
nate at base for almost one-third of their length, mucronate, 
2-nerved, dorsally carinate especially near the tip, cucullate. 
Dorsal sepal lanceolate-elliptic, 5-5.5 mm. long, about 2 
mm. wide, shortly acuminate, 3-nerved, cucullate. Petals 
obliquely lanceolate, about 5 mm. long, 1.1-1.6 mm. wide, 
acuminate, 3-nerved. Labellum long unguiculate, sagittate, 
5 mm. long; claw 2 mm. long, linear, slightly dilated near 
the lamina, callose-thickened especially in the dilated por¬ 
tion; lamina with a pair of fleshy retrorse auricles at the 
base, gradually contracted to a point a little beyond the 
middle where abruptly dilated into a triangular-cordate an¬ 
terior portion which is 2 mm. wide, sharply mucronate and 
has irregular crenate margins. Column slender below, dilated 
above, 2.3 mm. long, characteristic of the genus. 
Notylia paniculaia is allied to N. bicolor Lindl. and to 
N. ramonensis Schltr. It differs from both, however, in 
being smaller with branched peduncles, and with a shortly 
mucronate, not elongate-setaceous, lip-termination. 
The description was made from dried plants. 
Costa Rica, Province of Cartago, Vicinity of Pejivalle, 
Paul C. Standley & Juvenal Valerio 46858, February 7-8, 
1926. About 900 meters altitude. “On tree; flowers purple.” 
(Type in Herb. Ames No. 33252.) 
Ornithocephalus Valerio! A. & S. sp. nov. Herba 
Parva, epiphytica, caespitosa. Folia equitantia, lineari-ob- 
longa, plus minusve falcata, congesta, patentia. Inflores- 
centiae arcuatae, laxe racemosae, caule anguste alato, rachide 
flexuosa. Sepala late obovata, rotundata, conspicue mu- 
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