graphs of the Galeotti specimens and the copy of the 
Galeotti sketch. 
Plant very slender, 8.5—19 em. tall, caespitose. Roots 
few, dilated from a slender base, verrucose. Stem entirely 
concealed by close tubular leaf-sheaths, 2.5—-4.5 em. long 
below the inflorescence, leafless below with the lowermost 
sheath aphyllous. Leaves elongate-subulate, 2.2—6.7 em. 
long, 1 mm. or less wide, acute, strict. Inflorescence arcu- 
ate and loosely few-flowered, racemose or a few-flowered 
panicle. Peduncle up to inflorescence filiform, 1.2—7.2 
em. long, entirely invested by long tubular membrana- 
ceous sheaths. Bracts of the inflorescence inconspicuous, 
lanceolate, amplexicaul, scarious. Rachis flexuous. Flow- 
ers shades of yellowish brown according to the Galeotti 
sketch, small, apparently with spreading perianth seg- 
ments when fresh, membranaceous. Sepals strongly con- 
cave. Lateral sepals elliptic-lanceolate, 6.8 mm. long, 
about 2.3 mm. broad when expanded, complicate-acute, 
dorsally carinate at the apex, oblique at base. Dorsal 
sepal similar, 6.8 mm. long, about 2 mm. broad when 
expanded. Petals oblanceolate-linear, 6 mm. long, 1 mm. 
broad above the middle, acute or subacute. Lip simple, 
in our specimen obovate in outline with a slightly con- 
tracted claw-like base(the Galeotti drawing shows a more 
round-ovate lip), exceeding the sepals, adnate about to 
the middle of the column, retuse in our specimen (ap- 
parently acute in the Galeotti sketch), about 5—-5.5 mm. 
long, 4.4 mm. wide, strongly plicate-undulate, margins 
erose; dise provided at the base with an ovate flattened 
paten, the three central nerves marked by low crenulate 
keels of which the lateral keel on each side is more or less 
branched. Column small, clavate, about 2.2 mm. long. 
Capsule ellipsoid, with a slender pedicel. 
KH pidendrum subulatifolum appears to have no very 
close allies. 
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