or oblong-lanceolate, acute, bases confluent with the 
stem (Plate XII). Flowers reddish brown, 1.8 mm. 
across, in suberect racemes 4 cm. long. Peduncle very 
short, covered with sterile bracts right down to the base 
and adnate to the topmost leaf. Floral bracts 1.8-2.3 
mm. long, 0.7—-0.8 mm. broad, ovate, acuminate, acute. 
Dorsal sepal 1-1.4 mm. long, 0.56—0.8 mm. broad, ovate, 
acute; lateral sepals 0.6-0.8 mm. long, 0.7—-0.9 mm. 
broad, broadly and obliquely orbicular-ovate, obtuse: 
petals 1.2 mm. long, 0.36—0.4 mm. broad, oblong-lanceo- 
late, subacute, ciliate, appressed to the dorsal sepal and 
lying within it. Lip superior, sessile, 0.6 mm. long, 0.72 
mm. broad, fleshy, 3-lobed: lateral lobes cylindrical- 
subulate and arched behind the column: mid-lobe trifid, 
hatchet-shaped, lateral lobules diverging. Column globu- 
lar, 0.2 mm. high and 0.26 mm. broad. Anther terminal, 
incumbent, 2-loculed; pollinia 4, in two pairs, individual 
pollinum of each pair unequal, appressed and club- 
shaped, larger pollinia 0.2 mm. long, 0.1 mm. broad and 
the smaller ones 0.14 mm. by 0.06 mm. Ovary with 
pedicel 1.6 mm. long. Fruit stalked, 2.3 mm.long, 0.9 
mm. in diameter. 
This species is allied to Oberonia tenuis Lind]. from 
which it differs in the small size of the plant, ovate dor- 
sal sepal and ciliated petals which are subacute at their 
apices. 
Cryton: Rangala (Corbet’s Gap), in submontane or midcountry 
tropical wet evergreen forests at 1285 m. altitude, March 14, 1960. 
Jayaweera 2142.—Same locality, April 4, 1960, Jayaweera 2160 (Type). 
It flowers from January to April. 
Oberonia claviloba Jayaweera sp. nov. 
Epiphytica, caespitosa. Caule abbreviato, compresso. 
Foliis paucis, distichis, equitantibus, rectis vel subfalca- 
tis, 4-6.5 em. longis, 0.3-0.6 cm. latis. Inflorescentia 
spiciformi, erecta, 6.8 cm. longa; pedunculo 2 cm. longo. 
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