valde nervoso-plicata. Flos saepissime solitarius. Species 
una adhue reperta, habitu Sobraliae et Elleanthi. 
Lindsayella amabilis 4 mes & Schweinfurth sp. nov. 
Herba caespitosa, gracilis, radicibus numerosis fibrosis 
‘arnosis. Caules graciles, elongati. Folia disticha, ad va- 
ginas arctas tubulares articulata, perangusta. Flos saepis- 
sime singulus, terminalis, pulcherrimus, membranaceus, 
coccineus. Sepala elliptico-lanceolata, acuta; lateralia 
paulo obliqua. Petala sepalis latiora. Labellum simplex, 
ambitu subquadrato-obovatum, parte anteriore paulo lat- 
lori, apice bilobatum, prope basim cum callis binis ap- 
proximatis et superne cum carina humili undulata orna- 
tum. Columna gracilis, apice dilatata. Pollinia octo, in 
paribus connexa. 
Plant caespitose, six to ten stems in a cluster. Roots 
fibrous, numerous, fleshy, branched. Mature flowering 
stems up to 87.5 cm. tall, slender, up to 8 mm. in diame- 
ter, more or less concealed by the leaf-sheaths, glabrous 
or sometimes lepidote above. Leaves distichous, three to 
eight on the upper part of the stem, linear-lanceolate, 
linear-elliptic or linear, the uppermost and lowermost 
apparently much smaller, up to 10.5 cm. long and 11 
mm. wide, rigid and coriaceous, strongly plicate, gradu- 
ally narrowed to an obtuse or minutely tridenticulate 
apex, sessile, articulated to close elongate cylindrical 
sheaths, about 7-nerved, more or less spreading. Inflo- 
rescence terminal. Flower usually solitary (very rarely in 
pairs), rising from between a pair of narrow erect imbri- 
‘ating conduplicate bracts in the axil of the uppermost 
reduced leaf, showy, membranaceous, rose-pink, odorless, 
blooming from about 6 o’clock in the morning until about 
7 or 8 o'clock in the evening (ephemeral). Perianth seg- 
ments free, campanulate at the base, spreading and re- 
curved above. Dorsal sepal elliptic-lanceolate, about 2.7 
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