68 ORCHIDACEM 



ered, flowers 7-12, drooping. Floral bracts linear-lanceolate, 4-8 

 mm. long, with purple veins. Pedicel slender, wiry, 2 mm. long. 

 Ovary ellipsoidal, 5-7 mm. long. Segments of the perianth sub- 

 connivent, 7.5 mm. long, whitish, tipped with manve. Sepals 

 and petals linear-lanceolate. Lip sessile, broader than the sepals 

 and petals, oblong-oblanceolate, obtuse, bicallose at the very base. 

 Column erect, rather slender below, dilated above. Anther large, 

 erect, 2.5 mm. high, oblong. Pollinia 2, granulose. Fruit an 

 elhpsoidal capsule, 9 mm. long. 



" Erect from fleshy tubers in deep hard woods. Flowers pen- 

 dulous from short ascending pedicels, the subtending bracts as 

 well as those on the stem purplish streaked : corolla segments 

 purplish, the upper one recurved, the lower one (lip) broadest," 

 Twin Peaks, Prov. Benguet, Luzon, June 11, 1904, A. D. E. 

 Elmer (no. 6458). 



EPIPOGUM, Gmel. 



E. nutans, Rchb., f., in Bonplandia 5: 36 (1857). — Galera 

 nutans, Blume, Bijdr. 416 (1825) : 



" GALERA. 



^^ Perianthii sepala conniventia; interiora latiora. Ldbelhim 

 basi obtuse calcaratum, concavum ; limbus indivisus, undulatus. 

 Gynostemimn breve, crassum, fornicatum. Anther a interne infra 

 apicem affixa, turbinata, carnosa, bilocularis, loculis bilocellatis. 

 Massce poUinis duae, subbilobse, granulosse, pedicellatse, pedicellis 

 arcuatis, ad latus exterius antherse af&xis. Ovarium sub flore co- 

 arc tatum. 



" Affinis videtur Arethusee. 



" Herba terrestris, caulescens. Radix tuberosa. Caulis aphyllus, 

 stipulatus, apice spicato-multiflorus. Flores pedicellati, bracteati, 

 nutantes. 



