slightly dilated from the base toward the apex: gland 
ovate, small. 
Phragmorchis teretifolia L.O. Williams sp. nov. 
Herba epiphytica cum caulibus gracilibus, usque ad 
4.5 dm. altis. Folia subulata, teretia. Inflorescentia lat- 
eralis, brevis, pauciflora; bracteae parvae, triangulari- 
acuminatae. Sepalum dorsale naviculare, obovatum, bre- 
viter apiculatum, uninervium. Sepala lateralia oblongo- 
ovata, leviter obliqua, acuta. Petala oblongo-lanceolata, 
obtusa vel acuta, uninervia. Labellum trilobatum, valde 
saccatum vel calearatum, bicallosum; lobus medius late 
ovatus, paulo carinatus; lobi laterales erecti, apice acuti. 
An epiphytic herb with slender stems, up to 4.5 dm. 
long. Roots short, strongly verrucose (at least when dry). 
Stems slender, terete, covered with the persistent bases 
of the old leaves, 2-8 mm. thick. Leaves subulate, ang- 
ular-terete, up to about 6 em. long and 8 mm. thick. 
Inflorescences lateral, short, few-flowered, several from 
each stem, breaking through the leaf-sheaths opposite 
the base of a leaf. Bracts of the inflorescence small, tri- 
angular-acuminate, about 2 mm. long. Dorsal sepal nav- 
icular, obovate, short-apiculate, 1-nerved, about 4 mm. 
long and 2 mm. broad. Lateral sepals oblong-ovate, 
slightly oblique, acute, about 4 mm. long and 1.5 mm. 
broad. Petals oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, 1- 
nerved, about 4 mm. long and 1 mm. broad. Lip 3- 
lobed, strongly sacecate or spurred, with two very thin 
callus plates in the spur near the base of the mid-lobe of 
the lip; mid-lobe broadly ovate, somewhat carinate, about 
2mm. long and 1.5 mm. broad; lateral lobes erect, free 
from the column, about 1 mm. long, the acute apex of 
of the lobes directed outward. Anther cucullate, apicu- 
late-acuminate, on the apex of the column, about 1.5 
mm. long and 1 mm. broad. Rostellum minute, in the 
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