COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 205 



covered with very curious scale-hairs, flat elongate triangular or lanceolate and pustular. 

 The petals are much larger tlian the sepals, and the author is very large in projiortion 

 to the column, with large dark red-purple pollen-masses. 



T^NIOPHYLLUM GRANDIFLOKUM, Schlcclitcr, in K. Schum. & Lauterb. El. Deutsch. 

 Schutzg. Siidsee, 221. 



Camp VI a, 3100 ft. 



A very fine species with very large flowers for the genus. The fruit is cylindrical, 

 7 cm. long and ?> mm. throvigh, with hardly elevated ribs. 



Blstrib. Endemic in New Guinea. 



MiCROTATpRCHIS ALATA, Ridl., Sp. nOV. 



Caulis brevissimus. Folia linearia, falcata, obtusa, 1-2 cm. longa, 3 mm. lata, costa 

 elevata mucronulo terminata. Racemi graciles, 2-3 cm. longi, omnino floriferi, 

 rhachi tenui bracteis decurrentibus alata. i?r«c/e(? lineares, acuminatse, vix 1 mm. 

 longae. Flores dissiti, 4 mm. lorfgi, pedicellis 2 mm. longis. Sepala linearia, 

 acuminata, caudata, fere ad basin libera, angustissima, 4 mm. longa. Petula 

 similia. Lahellum lanceolatum, acuminatum, acutum, 4 mm. longum, basi 1 mm. 

 latum, calcare saccato globoso brevi. Colmnna brevissima, stelidiis longis erectis 

 lanceolatis acutis. PolUnia 2, elliptica, rufo-brunnea, caudiculo apice lato trian- 

 gulari, disco lougo lineari. Capsida lageniformis, oblonga, costis vix elevatis, 

 8 mm. longa, 2 mm. lata. 

 Camp VI a, 3100 ft. 



Allied to 31. perpusilla, Schlechter, but with larger leaves, very much smaller bracts, 

 and a winged rhachis. The wings are rather peculiar, they are quite thin and gi'een, 

 widest ]ust below each bract, and gradually narrowing to the next one below. 



MiCROTATORCniS MTTLTIFLORA, UidL, sp. nov. 



Radices crassi, suberosi, nee complanati. Caulis 3 mm. longus vel brevior. Folia 

 oblonga, coriacea, abrupte in cuspidein acutum angustata, 4 mm. longa, 1-5 mm. lata. 

 Scapi 5 mm. longi, ad basin floriferi, flexuosi, quadrangulares. Bractece ovatte, 

 lanceolatae, cymbiformes, patentes, 1 mm. longae. Flores parvi, flavi. Pedicellus 

 cum ovario quam bractea brevior. Sepala ovata, triangularia, acuta, fere ad basin 

 libera, lateralia angustiora, et magis lanceolata. Petala anguste lanceolata, sepalis 

 aequilonga. Lahellum late ovatum, excavatum, abrupte cuspidatum, sequilongum, 

 calcare subgloboso basi angustato. Columna brevis, stelidiis brevibiis obtusis. 

 JPollinia 2, minutissima, elliptica, caudiculo filiformi gracili, disco longiore lineari 

 oblongo. Capsula oblique pyriformis, 4 mm. longa, 2 mm. crassa, pedicello 1 mm. 

 Ion go. 

 Camps XIII to XIV, 10,500 to 12,500 ft. 



Allied to M. papuana, Schlechter, but a taller plant with free sepals and petals. The 

 llowers appear to have been orange-yellow. 



