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mote, ovate and evaginate, embracing. Raceme erect, laxly 1-5-flowered ; 

 rachis attaining 5cm. long, straight or somewhat fiexuous, glabrous; bracts 

 erect-patent, subulate to subulato-ovate, elliptical-ovate or elliptical, acute, mem- 

 branaceous, colourless when recent, many-nerved, embracing, 3-13 mm. long. 

 Flowers medium-sized, pedicellate, erect-patent ; pedicel slightly longer than 

 bracts. Sepals free, semi-patent, equal in form, linear-lanceolate or lato- 

 linear, acute, 5-7-nerved, entire, pale when recent ; the upper one slightly 

 longer, 20-26 mm. long, 5 mm. wide ; lateral ones 20-23 mm. long, 5 mm. 

 wide. Petals free, shorter than sepals, pale with longitudinal large purple 

 lines sometimes mixed with a few blotches, erect, parallel to the gyno- 

 stemium, angustato-elliptical or subrhombeo-oblong, acute, scarcely oblique 

 in form, sometimes with a narrow elevated line in centre in the lower 

 half. Labellum, erect, shorter than sepals and petals, sessile to the very 

 base of the gynostemium, 16-18 mm. long, subcarnose, elliptical and entire- 

 margined in the lower half, cuneate towards the base, sub-3-lobed, purple 

 excepting the upper and middle portions, the mid-lobe deltoid-ovate, acute, 

 entire, about i of the whole length of labellum, the lateral lobes very 

 small and slightly distinct, calli two, subparallel, with a deep subsaccato- 

 groove between them, slightly elevated above and obtuse at the front end. 

 Gynostemium erect, shorter than the labellum, lato-linear, often more or 

 less thick at apex, 12-14 mm. long, hardly arcuate, sessile, compressed- 

 subse mi terete, carnose, pale and with light purple colour towards the edges 

 and often with thinly disparsed light purple spots on the front surface, 

 very sharply acute and very narrowly marginate on edges, slightly convex 

 on the front surface. Anther terminal, depressed, reniform, emarginate in 

 front, refuse in the posterior, convex, minutely dense-papillose on surface, 2- 

 celled, thick-walled, yellow ; pollinia 4, sessile, obovoid, 2-collected in each 

 cell, waxy, pale-yellow, retinaculum thin ; clinandrium truncate, perpendicular, 

 broadly triangular, slightly subangulato-convex longitudinally in centre, the 

 posterior margin raised ; rostellum shortly projecting. Stigma transverse, 

 angustate, closely placed under the clinandrium. Ovary hardly arcuate, nar- 

 rowly cylindrical, glabrous, 23-30 mm. long including the pedicel. Cap- 

 sule Flowers in June-August. 



Nom. Jap. Maya-ran. 



Hal. Prov. Settsu: Mt. Maya (Herb. ! Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, 

 1870); Prov. Sagami: Inamuragasaki (Y. Amhina ! July 22, 1902); Prov. 

 Kadzusa : Nagakura in Ofusa-mura (W. Yamadal Aug. 1902), Ichinomiya 

 (M. Taguchi\ herb. ibid. Nov. 4, 1903). 



This Orchid is found on hills or in fields not too far from sea. 



