The specific epithet is given in honor of the collector, 
Mr. J. K. Cox, of the Gold Coast Department of Agri- 
culture, who has paid special attention to the orchids of 
that colony and has made several other interesting dis- 
coveries. The whole plant is only a few centimetres long 
and high and could easily be overlooked. 
This remarkable species, although possessing the habit 
of the smaller species of Microcoelia has several very dis- 
tinctive features, among which are the unition of the 
tepals, the extraordinary lip and the structure of the col- 
umn. No Angraecoid orchid has previously been recorded 
in which the tepals are united to form a tube as in the 
plant here considered. The lip is reminiscent of that of 
Liparis tridens Kraenzl., but in A. Cox the inflexed 
margins are actually connate so as to form a deep narrow 
hood rather like the finger of a glove; the apex is in- 
curved to form a sharp slender hook, hence the generic 
name. At the mouth of the spur there is a platform-like 
semilunate callus which projects inwards so as to leave 
only a very small opening against the column front. The 
very short column bears at its front corners two flap-like 
lobes projecting forwards in a vertical plane. Between 
these is the obtuse rostellum bearing the relatively large 
viscidium from the centre of which arises the short mas- 
sive stipes. The anther has two erect rounded posticous 
lobes, each one containing the greater part of a pollinium, 
while in front there are two similar but smaller lobes be- 
tween which is a slit through which the pollinia are at- 
tached to the stipes. The whole structure is so minute 
that it was only with difficulty that the details could be 
elucidated. 
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