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nato-revolutam constrictus, pallide flavescens. In quibusdam flori- 

 bus emoUitis in anteriore margine labelli praeter apicem subulatum 

 revolutum denticulos duos laterales rotundatos inconspicuos ani- 

 madverti. Gynostemium in ovario leviter reclinatum v. ei oblique 

 incumbens, crassum, obtusum, semiteres, puniceo-variegatum, apice 

 androclinio antbera obtecto excavatum. Antbera ovoidea, con- 

 vexa, obtusa, postice depressione obsoleta, qua margini androclinii 

 affixa est, quadrilocularis. PoUiuia 4, sublenticularia, cereacea, 

 dura, vitellina, geminatim duabus caudieulis elasticis pulvereis sibi 

 parallelis appositis lutescentibus agglutinata. Stigma cavum, mu- 

 cosum, sub rostello nonnibil prominente apice glanduloso-tumes- 

 cente oceultum. Ovarium pedicellatum, elongato-clavatum, sulca- 

 tum, inferne distortum, ex viridi in sordide purpureum vergens, 

 pube brevi densa obsessum." 



Leaves elliptic, acuminate, petiolate, erect. Rbizome creeping, 

 in my specimens clothed with the fibrous remains of the bracts. 

 Peduncle erect, exceeding 3 dm. in length. Floral bracts lanceo- 

 late-acuminate, about 7 mm. long, pubescent. Pedicel and ovary 

 together 12-14 mm. long, pubescent. Lateral sepals narrowly 

 lanceolate-acuminate, acute, 1.5 cm. long, strongly deflexed beneath 

 the labellum. Upper sepal similar, concave, incurved. Petals fal- 

 cate, linear-lanceolate, erect. Labellum cuneate-quadrate, convex, 

 the apex long-acuminate, circinnate, invisible from above, to base 

 of circinnate apex 5 mm. long, the base slightly saccate. Flowers 

 pubescent, yellowish, purple-dotted. 



Gimogon River, Negros, January 5, 1904, E. B. Copeland (no. 

 134). 



SPATHOGLOTTIS, Blume 

 S. plicata, Blume, Bijdr. 400, 401 (1825) : 



"SPATHOGLOTTIS. 



^'Perianthii sepala erecto-patentia ; interiora exterioribus lati- 

 ora. Labellum inferne bilobum (lobis conniventibus), supra basin 



