ORCHIDACEM 69 



"GALERA NUTANS. 



" Crescit : in sylvis altioribus montis Salak. Floret : De- 

 cembri." 



Plants about 3 dm. high, fleshy, whitish, bracteose. Bracts 

 distant, membranaceous. Pedicels filiform. Flowers drooping. 

 Perianth about 1 cm. long. Sepals and petals narrowly lanceo- 

 late, acuminate. Labellum concave, enclosing the gynostemium, 

 at base produced into a short, blunt spur ; limb ovate, acuminate, 

 somewhat erose undulate, upper surface papillose. Column short, 

 fleshy. Anther large, sub-quadrate. PolHnia 2. 



" Terrestrial, waxy white," Todaya, Davao, Mindanao, April 25, 

 1904, E. B. Copeland (no. 1241). — Nueva Viscaya, Luzon, May 

 28, 1902, E. B. Merrill (no. 231). 



SPIRANTHES, Rich. 



S. australis, Lindl., Bot. Reg. sub. t. 823. — Epipactis foliis 

 plerisque ex lineari lanceolatis, GmeHn, Fl. Sib. 1 : 13, 14: "Struc- 

 tura et hirsutia floris omnino esedem, ac priori. . Tria cucuUi petala 

 interius, duo alarum exterius disposita, omnia ex ovato acuta, 

 concava. Labellum nectarii carinatum, acutum, anterius crenula- 

 tum, lineare, album, vel saltem vix ulla rubedine tinctum, cum 

 petala suave rubeant, aut purpurascant. Radix tribus, quatuor et 

 quinque erassiusculis albicantibus fibris, diversse longitudinis, 

 unciaHbus et triuncialibus, ssepe leviter bifidis, componitur. 



" Folia radicalia multa, pleraque ex lineari lanceolata, pr^longa, 

 longisque petiolis alatis innata, quaedam etiam latiuscula et brevi- 

 ora, caulina omnia ex lineari lanceolata, venis longitudinalibus uti 

 in lino, praedita, Isetissime viridia. 



" CauHs dodrantahs et pedalis, saepe leviter tortus, rotundus et 

 viridis, versus superiora et in scapo brevibus piHs hirsutus. 



" Nescio, an cucullus tripetalus ad distinctionem generis suffi- 

 ciat. De eo dubitasse videtur STELLERUS, qui priorem huius 

 generis speciem cum RUPPIO ad Bellehorinen retulit. 



