4-5^mm. across ; sheaths ample, inflated, herbaceous, thickly membranaceous, 

 oblong-lanceolate but narrowed and tubular below, acute, entire, many- 

 nerved, purpurascent, more or less greenish above, attaining about 14cm. 

 in length, the lower ones gradually shorter and imbricated. Eaceme 

 cernuous, longer than the peduncle, laxly 4-12-flowered ; rachis obtusely 

 sub-angulate, glabrous, flaccid-herbaceou«, very light green, slightly ])urple 

 at nodes, 5-25cm. long ; bracts small, deltoid-subulate, sharply pointed, 

 entire, 3-8mm. long. Flower scentless. Perianth thickly membranaceous, 

 white, with a rubescent stripe in centre, with finely crispate-crenulate 

 margins which are quite entire in a3Stivation. Outer perianth patent, nar- 

 rowly oblancealate, equal in length and in size, acutish and with an apiculate 

 tip, the superior (truly inferior) one erect and the lateral ones obliquely 

 downwards, 2J-3^cm. long, 7|-9|mm. broad. Inner perianth shorter 

 than the outer perianth, nearly approximate to one another, narrowly lan- 

 ceolate, obtuse and with a minutely apiculate tip, 2-2-§cm. long, 6-7imm. 

 broad. Labellum horizontal, shorter than the inner perianth, sessile with 

 an obtuse-rounded Ijase, thickish, 3-lobed, with 2 longitudinal pubescent white 

 and nearly close-placed lamellaa between the side lobes, yellow at the base ; 

 side lobes erect, ovate, obtuse, entire, scarcely ciliated on the inner margin,, 

 purplish-red ; the mid-lobe larger than the side lobes, much recurved, 

 broadly ovate, obtuse with a minutely mucronate tip, purpurascent-red,^ 

 but yellowish in centre. Gynostemium equalling the side lobes of the 

 labellum in height, compressed, rounded dorsally, flat and slightly concave- 

 in front, a little arcuate, ^eeply purpurascent-red, l^cm. long, 4imm. wide ; 

 clinandrium deltoid, obliquely truncate ; anther ovato-hemLspterical, truncate 

 at the base, thick at top, sub-2-celled, yellowish ; pollinia 2, deeply 2- 

 partite, sessile, obovate, compressed, waxy, yellow, disk lunato-reniform. 

 Ovary cylindrical, somewhat enlarged above, glabrous, very light green,, 

 usually slightly longer than the perianth including the pedicel and 2i-4icm. 

 long. Capsule oblong- fusiform, pedicellate, beaked at top, glabrous, about 

 2^cm. across. 



Hab. Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, Eot. Gard. Koishikawa, cult. {2. Mahino I 

 Jan. 1902). 



This amiable Orchid has also been found in Formosa. Flowers in 

 winter in Tokyo. 



Saccolabium Matsui'an Makino Notes on Jap. PI. XV. in Bot. 



l^Iag., Tokyo, YI. (1892) p. 48. 



