lus. Flores valde congesti, purpurel. Sepala lateralia 
orbiculari-ovata, trinervia, intus valde glandulosa. Se- 
palum dorsale simile. Petala flabellata, apice valde in- 
crassata, truncata, uninervia. Labellum carnosum, late 
unguiculatum, supra unguem late ovato-cordatum vel 
orbiculari-cordatum. Unguis labelli quadratus, callo e- 
longato instructus. Columna abbreviata, apoda, apice 
trilobata. 
Secondary stems probably densely caespitose, about 
3cm. long, erect, monophyllous, concealed by elongated 
tubular sheaths. Sheaths three to four, up to 2 cm. long, 
dilated upwards, the uppermost one much the longest, 
obliquely truncate. Leaf including the petiole 6.5—-12 
em. long, 1.2-1.7 em. wide, oblong-elliptic or oblanceo- 
late, rounded at the tridenticulate tip, coriaceous; petiole 
about 1.5 em. long, sulcate, rigid. Peduncle erect, 6-10 
cm. long including the raceme, with five or six infundib- 
uliform bracts, the lowermost one tubular and ample. 
Raceme 3-6 em. long, pendulous or strongly arcuate, 
densely many-flowered. Flowers in several ranks, dark 
purple, subtended by broadly infundibuliform bracts 
which are almost contiguous along the rachis. Sepals 
equal, about 2 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, orbicular, densely 
glandular on the inner surface, 3-nerved, strongly convex, 
forming at base a shallow tube. Petals 1 mm. long, 1 mm. 
wide at the truncate thickened apex, cuneate or flabellate, 
l-nerved. Labellum very fleshy-thickened, 1 mm. long, 
broadly unguiculate, broadly ovate-cordate or orbicular- 
cordate beyond the claw. Claw about 1 mm. wide, with 
a distinct broad callus in the middle. Column 8-lobed 
at the summit, with the stigmas confluent and extending 
to the lateral lobes forming a prominent pulvinate mass 
beneath the triangular rostellum. 
Stelis pendulispica is readily distinguished from its 
allies by means of the pendulous racemes of crowded 
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