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filament subulato-filiform, glabrous but papilloso-pubescent at the base ; anther 

 elliptical. Ovary glabrous, narrow, attenuated above, trigonous, many-ovuled; 

 style trifid, the branches recurved-patent, dichotomously cut dorwn one-half^ 

 maculate with purple spots and protuberant-glandular. Capsule trigonous, 

 narrow, attenuated above, glabrous, dehiscing above, 23-27 njm. long. Seed 

 obovate, compressed, brown, scalariform -reticulated in tlie faces. 



Hah. Prov. Tosa : Mt. Tebalco {T. Malcino ! Aug. 1885), Sakawa 

 {T. Maldno\ 1885, L&89), Kusugami {T. 3IaMno\ Oct. 1892); Prov. 

 Shinano: Mt. Usuhi-toge {T. Makino\ Sept. 1888) ; Prov. Echigo : Mt. 

 Shimidzu-toge (T. J/a/vmo ! Sept. 1888) ; Prov. Shimotsuke : Nikko {T. 

 Blahino ! Aug. and Sept. 1901), Near Ashio {T. Blalcino ! Sept. 1901) ; 

 Prov. MuRASHi : Mt. Takao {T. Blahino ! April 1903). 



A wide -spread species. Intermediate between Tricyrtis hirta Hook, 

 and T. macropoda Miq., having a closer affinity with the latter species. 



Taeniophyllum aphyllum Makino Phanerog. et Pterid. Jap. lllustr. 

 I. tab. 11, (1899). 



SarcocldJus (Chiloscldnta) ? sp. Makino in Bot. IMag., Tokyo, I. (1887) 

 p. 75, tab. 10. 



Sarcochilus aphjllus Makino Notes on Jap. PI. XV. in Bot. Mag., 

 Tokyo, YI-. (1892), p. 48. 



Cryptorchis aplujlla Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, VII. (1893) p. 118, 

 et IX. (1895) p. 231. 



A small aphyllous epiphytic orchid, attaining about 7cm. across. Roots 

 many, attaining about 25 in number, emitting from the inconspicuous stem, 

 somewhat com[)ressed, simple, sinuato-flexuous, glabrous but often minutely 

 hairy on the under side, pale green. Stem erect, short, attaining about 

 4mm. long, provided with pale-brown thin minute subulate scales at the top. 

 Scapes 1 to several, 4-8mm. long, capillary, glabrous, simple, 1-3-flowered ; 

 rachis short, flexuous ; bracts minute, deltoid-subulate, navicular, acute, 

 carinate, ^-1 mm. long. Flower minute, 1mm. long, inconspicuous, greenish. 

 Perianth thickish, connate below, not patent ; segments subiilato-lanceolate 

 or ovato-deltoid, delicately 1-nerved to each segment, the outer ones acutish, 

 the inner ones acute and slightly shorter than the outer. Labellum included, 

 slightly concave, free from the perianth, subtrilobed, the lateral lobes small, 

 subsemiorbicular, inflexed, the midlobe much larger, subulato-deltoid or 

 subulato-lanceolate, furnished with a refracted filiform appendage which is 



