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wide. Petals free, shorter than sepals, pale with longitudinal large purple 

 lines sometimes mixed with a few blotches, erect, parallel to the gyno- 

 stemium, angustato-elliptical or subrhombeo-oblong, acute, scarcely oblique 

 in form sometimes with a narrow elevated line in centre in the lower 

 half. Labellum, erect, shorter than sepals and petals, sessile to the very 

 base of the gynostemium, 16-18 mm. long, subcarnose, elliptical and entire- 

 margined in the lower half, cuneate towards the base, sul)-3-lobed, jnirple 

 excepting the upper and middle portions, the mid-lobe deltoid-ovate, acute, 

 entire, about i of the whole length of labellum, the lateral lobes very 

 small and slightly distinct, calli two, subparallel, with a deep subsaccato- 

 f'roove between them, slightly elevated above and obtuse at the front end. 

 Gvnostemium erect, shorter than the labellum, lato-linear, often more or 

 less thick at a])ex, 12-14 mm. long, hardly arcuate, sessile, compressed- 

 subsemiterete, car nose, pale and with light pur[)le colour towards the edges 

 and often with thinly disparsed light purple spots on the front surface, 

 verv sharply acute and very narrowly marginate on edges, slightly convex 

 on the front surface. Anther terminal, depressed, rcniform, emarginate in 

 front, refuse in the posterior, convex, minutely dense-[)apillose on surface, 2- 

 celled, thick-walled, yellow ; pollinia 4, sessile, obovuid, 2-collected in each 

 cell, waxy, [)ale-yellow, retinaculum thin ; clinandrium truncate, perpendicular, 

 broadly triangular, slightly subangulato-convex longitudinally in centre, the 

 posterior margin raised ; rostellum shortly projecting. Stigma transverse, 

 angustate, closely i)laced under the clinandrium. Ovary hardly arcuate, nar- 

 rowly cylindrical, glabrous, 23-30 mm. long including the pedicel. Cap- 

 snle Flowers in June-August. 



Nom. Jap. 3[ayu-run. 



Hah. Prov. Settsu : Mt. Maya (Herb. ! Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, 

 1879); Prov. kSAGAMi: Inamuragasaki (Y. Amhinal July 22, 1902); Prov. 

 Kadzusa : Nagakura in Ofusa-mura (IV. Yaviadal Aug. 1902), Ichinomiya 

 {31. Taguchi ! herb. ibid. Nov. 4, 1903). 



This Orchid is found on hills or in fields not too far from sea. 



Eleocharis (Limnochloa) fistulosa Link 'Jahrb. III. (1820) p. 78 ' ; 

 [Schultes in Ktem. et Schultes Syst. Veg. 11. Mant. (1824) \k 89; Kunth 

 Enum. PL IL p. 155; Steud. Syn. Gyp. p. 80; Miq. FL Ind. Batav. IIL 

 p. 302 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 626, et in Journ. Linn. 

 »Soc. XXXIV. p. 48. 



