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tala aequantia, oblique oblonga, subovata, obtusa, dorso angulato-con- 

 vexa, apicem versus subcaiinata, carnosa, c. 0.34 cm. longa, 0.15 cm. 

 lata. Petala erecta, ovalia, apice obtusissima, basi leviter contracta, benei 

 concava, dorso obtusaugule convexa, quam sepala multo tenuiora, c. 0.2] 

 cm. longa, 0.125 cm. lata. Labellum gynostemio adnatum, carnosum, 

 subrectum, subtus visum ambitu oblongum cum marginibus subparallelis,! 

 subtus convexum, niveum, c. 0.325 cm. loiigum; lamina vix recurvula,, 

 concava, crassa, intus inferne canalicula longitudinali angusta alta in- 

 structa, parte gynostemio adnata c, 0.125 cm. longa, parte libéra trans-' 

 verse quadrangula, truiicata, quasi 21obula, macula dilute viridi ornata, 

 c. 0.06 cm. longa, 0,12 cm. lata; calcar reversum, ovario subadpres- 

 sum, rectum, leviter a dorso compressum, oblongum, 21obulum, subtus 

 apicem versus longitudinaliter sulcatum, c. 0.14 cm. longum, bene 0.1 

 cm. latum. Gynostemium fere tota longitudine labello adnatum, latum, a 

 dorso compressum, dorso convexum, apice leviter rotundatum, c. 0.1 cm. 

 longum, bene 0.1 cm. latum. Anthera cucullata, ambitu suborbicularis, 

 transverse ovalis, apice in lobulum late rotundato-triangulum convexum 

 producta, tennis, alba, c. 0.07 cm. lata, connectivo in dimidio inferiore 

 convexo-incrassato. Pollinia 4, compressa, suborbicularia, pallide flavescen- 

 tia, cum stipite late spathulato-cuneato convexo marginibus et apice 

 bilobo recurvo seniipellucide albo et glandula angusta c. 0.08 cm. longa. 

 Rostellum adscendens, e basi late triangula angustatum, bipartitum, laci- 

 niis subulatis, gynostemio parallelis. Stigma gynostemio aequilatum, semi- 

 lunatum. Ovarium crassiusculum, album, c. 0.18 cm. longum. 



Sumatra: Craterwall of Manindjau-lake, 600—800 m. (E. Jacobson, 

 cuit. sub. n. 594). 



Nearest to M. j'avensis Bl., but with much longer branched stems, 

 smaller blunter leaves, smaller flowers, with much more erect blunter 

 latéral sepals, tlie lip with a green spot and a much shorter spur, and 

 the pollinia more rounded. 



Description from living spécimens. 



Taeniophyllum amboinenseJ.J. S. — T. minutiflorum].]. Sj 

 in Phil. Journ. Se. Xll, C. Bot. (1917), 261. 



The name ought to be changed, because of T. minitiflorum J. J. S.1 

 from New Guinea. (in Bull. Dép. Agric. Ind. Néerl. No. XXXIX (1910),| 

 21). 



