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formantibus, clinandrio convaco, margine postico aequilateraliter trapeziformi 

 late retuso, pede brevi. Anthera non abscondita, cucullata, ovata, obtusa, c. 0.1 

 cm. lata, connectivo alte obtuse conico. Poilinia 4, obovato-ovalia, caudiculis 

 aequilongis filiformibus clavata, c. 0.1 cm. longa. Rostellum corispicuum, 

 aiitheram beiie aequans, ovatum, apice brevissinie contractum truncatum et 

 recurvuliim, concavum. Stigma oblique suborbiculare, margine elevatum. 

 Ovarium ôsuicatum, c. 0.2 cm. longum; pedicellus curvatus, c. 0.275 cm. 

 longus. 



Sumatra: West coast, Goenoeng Singgalaiig, 1700 m. (E. JACOBSON, 

 cuit, sub n. 1203). 



An interesting species allied to D. fiiscescens SCUTR. et J. J. S., charac- 

 terized by the curions appendages of the almost entire lip. 



,,Peduncle, bracts and ovary dark sienna-brown, sepals and petals 

 liglit sienna-brown darker at the tips, column greenish light sienna-brown, 

 antiier light sienna-brown." (E. jACOBSON). 



Description from small portions of the plant preserved in alcohol. 



Dendrochilum (sect. Platyclinis) fruticicola J. J. S. n. sp. 



Rhizoma repens, ramosum, initio vaginis tubulosis imbricantibus sicco 

 dense prominenter nervosis opacis atrofusce punctatis ad basin pseudobul- 

 borum accrescentibus superioribus acutis ad c. 4.5 cm. longis tectum, 

 radicibus crassiusculis. Pseudobulbi approximati, usque c. 1 cm. dissiti, 

 cum rhizomate angulum acutum facientes, sicco cylindracei, ovales vel 

 ovoidei, c. 1.7 — 3.6 cm. longi. Folium lanceolatum ad elliptico-lanceolatum, 

 apice contractum, subacutum vel subobtusum, apiculatum, basi acuta abrupte 

 in petiolum contractum, nervis c. 7 majoribus et pluribus minoribus subtus 

 in sicco prominentibus, coriaceum, c. 7.75 — 13 cm. longum, 1.6 — 2.9 cm. 

 latum; petiolus canaliculatus, c. 2— 4.5 cm. longum. Inflorescentia synantha, in 

 pseudobulbo immature cum folio fere evoluto, laxa, pedunculo c. 4.5 — 12.5 cm. 

 longo, rachide lateraliter compressa, quadrangula, lateribus angustis sulcata, 

 inferne furfuracea, c. 7.25 — 11 cm. longa, internodiis c. 0.6— 0.7 cm. longis. 

 Bracteae persistentes, patentissimae, marginibus involutae, pedicellum am- 

 plectentes, subquinquangulari-obovatae, obtusae, minute apiculatae, basi late 

 truncatae et utrinque in rachide decurrentes, 3nerviae, costa média dorso 

 prominente, dorso atrofusce furfuraceo-punctatae, c. 0.575 cm. longae, 

 0.47 cm. latae, bractea iiiferiore plerumque sterilis et adpressa. Flores 

 c. 10 — 16, magni. Sepalum dorsale incurvum, ovato-lanceolatum, acutum 

 canaliculato-concavum cum lateribus convexis, 3nervium, c. 1.2 cm. longum, 

 0.425 cm. latum. Scpala lateralia oblique ovato-lanceolata, acuta, obtusangule 

 canaliculata cum lateribus convexis, 3nervia, c. 1 .2 cm. longa, 0.4 cm. lata. Petala 

 incurva, e basi contracta oblique ovata, subacuminata, acuta, concava, apice vix 

 recurvulo convexa, 3nervia, fere 1.2 cm. longa, 0.46 cm. lata. Labellum elastice 

 insertum, in c. '/.t — '/a parte supra basin obtusangule recurvum, marginibus. 



