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eu m mucrone interposito, leviter canalieulata, costa intermedia 

 supra subtiliter sulcata, subtus vix prominente, tenuiter coriacea, 

 nitida, dilate viridia, c 4.5 cm. longa, 0.6 cm. lata; vaginae 

 internodiis duplo longiores, tubulosae, antice usque ad médium 

 latiuscule excisae. Infloiescentiae numerosae, latérales, solita- 

 riae, brevissimae, glabrae, c. 2— éflorae, ad c. 1 cm. longae, 

 pedunculo filiformi, dilute viridi, c. 0.2—0.35 cm. longo, rachi- 

 de filiformi, flexuosa, dilute viridi, c. 0.2—0.4 cm. longa. 

 Bracteae semiamplexicaules, triangulae, acute acuminatae, val- 

 de concavae, glabrae, dilute virides, 0.15 cm. longae. Flores 

 bifarii, minuti, glabri, c. 0.4 cm. longi et lati, sepalis petalisque 

 subparallelis, dilute viridibus. Sepalum dorsale oblongo-triangulum, 

 acute acuminatum, concavum, apice recurvum, c. 0.275 cm. 

 longum, 0.125 cm. latum. Sepala lateralia ad pedem columnae 

 decurrentia, oblongo-triangula, acute acuminata, apice leviter 

 falcato-incurvo, extus valde carinata, intus utrinque leviter 

 convexa, c. 0.33 cm. longa, 0.15 cm. lata. Petala sepalo dorsali 

 approximata, oblique lanecolata, abrupte subulato-acuminata, 

 apice leviter falcato-incurvo, c. 0.27 cm. longa, 0.06 cm. lata. La- 

 bellumbasi pedi columnae in formam calcaris saccati, nectariflui, 

 0.05 cm. longi adnatum, indivisum, spathulatum, glabrum, album, 

 expansum c. 0.35 cm. longum, ungue erecto, columnae adpresso, 

 late lineari, concavo, sulca longitudinali instructo, c. 0.17 cm. 

 longo, 0.1 cm. lato, lamina decurva, transverse ovali, obtuse api- 

 culata, transverse plicata, intus costa longitudinali validiore 

 carnosa munita, c. 0.24 cm. lata. Gynostemium cum ovario 

 angulum obtusum faciens, brevissimum, a dorso compressum, 

 apice lato obtuso, infra stigma breviter bigibbum, pallide virescens, 

 c. 0.075 cm. longum, auriculis brevibus. Anthera cucullata, 

 cordata, dorso incrassata, albescens, apice late bidentata, dentibus 

 triangulis acutis sordide purpureis, 0.06 cm. longa. Pollinia 8, 

 caudiculis deficientibus, in corpusculum obovatum unita, clavato- 

 lanceolata, praesertim exteriora curvata, basi attenuata acuta 



