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and a minute scale at the base. Leaves small, semi-ami)lexicaul, ovate, 

 acuminate, entire and more or less crispate on margin, green, the midrib 

 inconspicuous, the lateral vein 1 on each side and arcuate ; those of sterile 

 stem few, petiolate, vaginate at the base, orbicular, acute. Raceme short, 

 terminal, loosely flowered ; rachis flexuous, angulate ; bracts patent, sessile 

 and semi-amplexicaul, similar to leaves in form but slightly smaller. Flower 

 large in proportion. Perianth subequal, linear, acuminate, entire, mem- 

 branaceous, 1-nerved, somewhat incurved. Sepals bearded with long and 

 few hairs on both basal margins, more or less narrowly inflexed on margin, 

 light green, but the superior one also shaded with purple in the lower half ; 

 the superior one 4 mm. long ; lateral ones shorter and 2J mm. long, hidden 

 under the labellum when flower expanded. Petals not bearded on the 

 basal margins, light green and shaded with purple below, 3^ mm. long. 

 Labellum ample, patent, orbiculate, scarcely short-attenuated below, entire 

 but minutely crenulated on the front margin, 4 mm. across, very light purple, 

 but deep purple vertically in centre ; appendage directed to the front, much 

 shorter than the labellum and 1^ mm. in length, cut down to the midway 

 into two lobes of the upper and lower, purple ; lobes shortly bifid at the 

 apex, the upper one a little shorter. Column light green, 3J mm. long ; 

 appendage minute and emarginate; clinandrium with an obtuse short 

 rostellum in the front sinus ; anther-valves minutely tuberculate on the 

 surface, light brown. Pollinia minute, elliptical, light purple-brown. Ovary 

 linear-oblong, more or less attenuated below into a short and not contorted 

 pedicel, triangular, with an elevated ridge on each surface, alwut 5 mm. long, 

 light green, 1-locular, 3-placentiferous ; ovules minute, numerous, white. 

 Capsule (immature) shortly pedicellate, linear-oblong, triangular, with an 

 elevated ridge on each surface, crowned with persistent periantli and column. 

 Flowers August-Se-ptember. 



Nom. Jap. Korogi-ran (T. Makino). 



Hah. Prov. Tosa : Mt. Yokogura {T. MaMm\ Sept. 4, 1889). 



A very rare Orchid, growing among decayed leaves in shady places on 

 mountains. It was discovered by me in the above-cited date and locality. 

 C. J. Maximowicz says :— '' The Orchid is quite a new genus of the tribe 

 Neottiece, subtribe Diuridece, and allied to the Tasmanian Burnettia and 

 the Australian Glossodia. Your analysis is excellent. I dissected a flower 

 bud myself and found everything just as figured by you. I have called 

 the plant, on account of the remarkable fingerlike appendage under stigma, 

 Stigmatodactylus SikoJcianits" 



