62 J- J- SMITH. ORCHIDEEN. 



Tab. XXII. 71. 

 Caules plures, dependentes, elongati, ramosi, parte infcriore tenui, sectione transversa 

 elliptica, binodi, ad c. 4 cm. longa, deinde in pseudobulbum angustum, sectione transversa 

 rhombeum vel quinquangulatum, binodem, c. 10 cm. longum, i cm. latum incrassati, denique 

 attenuati, compressi foliati, nitidi, virides, adulti fusci, toti ad c. 60 — 85 cm. longi, internodiis 

 basi angustatis, ad c. 3 — 4.5 cm. longis, 0.5 — 0.7 cm. latis, apicem caulium versus decrescen- 

 tibus, ramis basi etiam incrassatis. Folia erecto-patentia, lateraliter compressa, lineari-lanceolata, 

 acutissima, basi obliqua, margine inferiore recta, margine superlore leviter curvata, carnosa, 

 opaca, viridia, saepe purpureo-tincta, ad c. 7.5 — 8.5 cm. longa, 0.95 — 1.2 cm. lata apice caulium 

 versus decrescentia, superiora rudimentaria; vaginae tubulosae, complanatae, internodia aequantes. 

 Inflorescentiae apicem caulium versus, brevissimae, fasciculatac, squamis siccis c. 0.3 cm. longis 

 cinctae, pedunculis brevissimis, unifloris. Flores médiocres, c. i — 1.35 cm. lati, 1.4 — 1.7 cm. 

 longi, pallide flavescentes, rubro-striati, interdum vix striati. Sepalum dorsale triangulum, 

 acutum vel acutiusculum, convexum, nervis rubris 3 — 5, c. 0.5 — 0.6 cm. longum, 0.35 — 0.37 cm. 

 latum. Sepala lateralia cum pede gynostemii mentum magnum, curvatum, ample conicum, 

 obtusum, apice brevissime contractum formantia, triangula, acuta, inferne concava, superne 

 convexa, striis rubris 4 — 6, c. 0.5 — 0.65 cm. longa, usque ad apicem pedis gynostemii 1.35 — 

 1.5 cm. longa. Petala lineari-oblonga, breviter acuta vel obtusa, convexa, uninervia, c. 0.5 cm. 

 longa, 0.15 — 0.2 cm. lata. Labellum erectum, basi pedi gynostemii brevissime adnatum, cur- 

 vatum, concavum, e basi cuneato-oblonga apice dilatatum, subtrilobum, intus fascia longitu- 

 dinali incrassata, 3-costulata, ad basin lobi intermedii terminante, ibique verruloso-denticulata 

 donatum, pallide flavescens, infra apicem macula dilute flava ornatum, expansum c. 1.4 — 1.5 cm. 

 longum, ad lobos latérales 0.95 — i cm. latum; lobi latérales recurvi, trianguli, obtusi convexi, 

 undulati ; lobus intermedius porrcctus, brevis, latus, trapeziformis, bilobulatus, lobulis rotundatis, 

 undulatus. Gynostemium brevissimum, flavescenti-album, c. 0.2 cm. longum, auriculis trian- 

 gulis. Anthera cucullata, antice plana, apice truncata et minute ciliolata, albida. Pollinia 4, 

 flava. Rostellum obtusum. Stigma subquadrangulum. Pes gynostemii cum ovario angulum 

 rectum formans, oblongatum, magis minusve interdum valde incurvum, concavum costa longi- 

 tudinal! sulcis limitata, apice callo flavo donatum, c. t — i.i cm. longum. Ovarium 6-sulcatum, 

 c. 0.25 — 0.3 cm. longum; pedicellus tenuis, c. 0.8 — 1.2 cm. longus. 



Niederl. Neu-Guinea: Beim Dorfe Gelieb [B. Branderhorst n. 169, bl. im Oktober 1907], in 

 der Gegend zwischen der Geelvink-Bai und dem Maccluer-Golf [W. den Berger 1906, leb. Pfl.], 

 Merauke-Fluss [Jaheri 1901, 53, leb. Pfl.]. Geogr. Verbr. ; Britisch- und Deutsch-Neu-Guinea ; 

 Kei-Inseln ; Banda. 



-i Dendrobium pseudo-calceolum J. J. S. in Bull. Dép. Agr. Buit. n. 5 [1907] 34; in le. bog. III 

 [1907], 97, t. CCXL. 



Niederl. Neu-Guinea : In der Gegend zwichen der Geelvink-Bai und dem Maccluer-Golf [W. den 

 Berger 1906, leb. Pfl.]; Insel Inggarorûmi bei Wendèsi [Exp. Wichmann 1903, Atasrip n. 83]. 



Sect. Oxystophyllum. 



- Dendrobium atropurpureum Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. III, 644. — Oxystophyllum atropurpurciim Bl. Runiphia 

 IV, 41, t. 193, f. 4; t. 198 C. 



Niederl. Neu-Guinea: Ohne nahere Fundortsangabe ; Geogr. Verbr.: Deutsch-Neu-Guinea; Ambon. 



