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a dorso compressum, pallide flavescens, c. 0.225 cm. longum, 

 filamento longe subulato, auriculis triangulis, obtusis, apice recur- 

 vulis. Anthera cucuUata, antice subplana, leviter convexa, quin- 

 quangularis, apice truncata puberulaque, alba, c. 0.17 cm. lata. 

 Pollinia 4, lateraliter compressa, in corpusculum obovatum supra 

 convexum unita, nitide flava. Rostellum conspicuum. Stigma 

 quadrangulum. Pes gynostemii cum ovario angulum obtusum 

 faciens, valde incurvus, linearis, intus costa longitudinali infra 

 apicem violacea apice glandula verruculosa instructus, pallide 

 flavus, c. 1.6 cm. longus. Ovarium teres, 6sulcatum, viride, 

 minute violaceo-puncticulatum, c. 0.4 cm. longum ; pedicellus 

 vix tenuior, c. 1.4 cm. longus. 



Soela-Islands: Poeloe Seho. (Exp. P. van Hulstijn, 1914, 

 Saanan, liv. pi. cuit, in Hort. Bog. sub n. 84). 



An al]>- of D. Mac Farlanei F. v. Muell. with larger different- 

 ^ly coloured flowers, and a differently shaped lip. proportionally 

 with a much larger lamina. 



Description from a living plant. 



llcii(lD'o9»iiiiii. (sect. Strongyle) CciiiitcSEiiIttidC!» J. J. 



S. n. sp. 



Gaules numerosi, approximati, compressi, longitudinaliter sul- 

 cati, flexuosi, nitide flavo virides, ad c. 15 cm. longi, deinde 

 plus minusve ramosi, internodiis e basi tenui oblique dilatatis, 

 c. 1 — 1.5 cm. longis, apice obliquo ad c. 0.45 cm. latis, inferio- 

 ribus tenuioribus. Polia patentia, lateraliter compressa, lineari-lan- 

 ceolata, margine superiore curvata, margine inferiore subi-ecta, 

 acutiuscula, basi articulata rotundata, rigide carnosa, opaca, satis 

 dilute viridia, margine superiore c. 1.3- 2.45 cm. longa, 0.475 — 0.77 

 cm. alta; vaginae tubulosae, lateraliter compressae, opacae, 

 satis dilute virides, internodia superantes, sub folio ad c. 0.75 

 cm. latae. Intlorescentiae ad nodos superiores caulium, fascicula- 

 tae, squamis siccis ad basin, flores 1 — 2 simultanée gignentes. 

 Flores médiocres, nutantus, virescenti- vel flavescenti albi, in- 

 terdum pallide purpureo striati, dulce suaveolentes, c. 1.2—1.5 

 cm. lati, 1.75 cm. longi. ^^epalum dorsale erectum, ovato-triangu- 

 lum, obtusum, convexum, c. 0.65 — 0.7 cm. longum, 0.38 — 0.425 

 cm. latum. Sepala lateralia lacinia magna falcata oblongo-trian- 



