It is quite impossible to say from macroscopic exam- 
ination just where the column-foot ends and where the 
sepalar tissue starts in the mentum. Likewise the lip is 
completely fused with the sepals below the point where 
the sepals are connate and the tissue is impossible to 
differentiate. 
Dendrobium dischorense (Sci/tr.) L.O. Williams 
comb, nov. 
Cadetia dischorensis Schlechter in Fedde Repert. Bei- 
hefte 1 (1912) 429. 
British New Guinea: mountain bush, Matap Station, Morobe Dis- 
trict, alt. 4000-6000 ft., March 1, 1940, Clemens 11216 (in Herb. 
Univ. Michigan; fragment in Herb. Ames). 
There are three isotypes of this species in the Ames 
Herbarium. 
Dendrobium fantasticum L.O. Williams sp. nov. 
Herbae epiphyticae, graciles, usque ad 40 cm. altae. 
Folia elliptica vel late lanceolata, acuta vel acuminata, 
coriacea, breviter petiolata, erecta vel suberecta. Inflores- 
centia foliis subaequalis, tri- usque ad decem-flora. Sepa- 
lum dorsale oblongo-ellipticum, obtusum, prope apicem 
constrictum. Sepala lateralia ovato-lanceolata, basi men- 
tum subsaccatum formantia. Petala linearia vel lineari- 
spathulata, obtusa vel truncata, falcata. Labellum bre- 
viter unguiculatum ; unguis compressus, carnosus, arcu- 
atus:; lamina trilobulata, lobus medius emarginatus. 
Columna sectionis. 
Slender, epiphytic herbs up te 40 cm. tall. Stems cy- 
lindric or slightly swollen at the apex, indurated, sulcate 
when dry, with several joints, up to 5 mm. in diameter, 
bifoliate at the apex. Leaves 8-12 cm. long and 2-2.8 
cm. broad, elliptic to broadly lanceolate, acute or acu- 
minate, coriaceous, short-petiolate, erect or suberect. 
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