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bulb, terete, smooth, very light green, herbaceous, encircliug with sheaths, 

 4-5imm. across ; sheaths ample, inflated, herbaceous, thickly membranaceous, 

 oblong-lanceolate but narrowed and tubular below, acute, entire, many- 

 nerved, purpurascent, more or less greenish above, attaining about 14cm. 

 in length, the lower ones gradually shorter and imbricated, Eaceme 

 cernuous, longer than the peduncle, laxly 4-12-flowered ; rachis obtusely 

 sub-angulate, glabrous, flaccid-herbaceous, very light green, slightly })Urple 

 at nodes, 5-25cm, long ; bracts small, deltoid-subulate, sharply pointed, 

 entire, 3-8mm. long. Flower scentless. Perianth thickly membranaceous, 

 white, with a rul)escent stripe in centre, with finely crispate-crenulate 

 margins which are quite entire in f^stivation. Outer perianth patent, nar- 

 rowly oblancealate, equal in length and in size, acutish and with an apiculate 

 tip, the superior (truly inferior) one erect and the lateral ones obliquely 

 downwards, 2i-3icm. long, 7^-9imm. broad. Inner perianth shorter 

 than the outer perianth, nearly appx-oximate to one another, narrowly lan- 

 ceolate, obtuse and with a minutely apic^Ilate tip, 2-2 ^cm. long, 6-7^mm, 

 broad. Labellum horizontal, shorter than the inner jierianth, sessile with 

 an obtuse-rounded base, thickish, 3-lobed, wMth 2 longitudinal pubescent white 

 and nearly close-placed lamellee between the side lobes, yellow at the base ; 

 side lobes erect, ovate, obtuse, entire, scarcely ciliated on the inner margin, 

 purplish-red ; the mid-lobe larger than the side lobes, much recurved, 

 broadly ovate, obtuse with a minutely mucronate tip, purpurascent-red, 

 but yellowish in centre. Gynostemium equalling the side lobes of the 

 labellum in height, compressed, rounded dor^'ally, flat and slightly concave 

 in front, a little arcuate, deeply purpurascent-red, licm. long, 4^mm. wide ; 

 clinandrium deltoid, obliquely truncate ; anther ovato-hemisp;erical, truncate 

 at the base, thick at top, sub-2-celled, yellowish ; pollinia 2, dee[)ly 2- 

 partite, sessile, obovate, compressed, waxy, yellow, disk lunato-reniform. 

 Ovary cylindrical, somewhat enlarged abo^'e, glabrous, very light green, 

 usually slightly longer than the perianth including the pedicel and 2J-4icm. 

 long. Capsule oblong-fusiform, pedicellate, beaked at top, glabrous, about 

 21cm. across. 



Jfah. Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, Bot. Gard. Koishikawa, cult. (T. Mahino\ 

 Jan. 1902). 



This amiable Orchid has also been found in Formosa. Flowers in 

 winter in Tokyo. 



Saccolabium Matsuran Makino Notes on Jap. PI. XV. in Bot. 

 Mag., Tokyo, VI. (1892) p. 48. 



