84 ORCHIBACEM 



callo depresso pubente auctum ; limbus erectus, spatulatus. Gyno- 

 stemium erecto-incurvum, apice dilatatum. Anthera gynostemium 

 interne terminans, 2-locularis, rostello ad marginem glanduloso 

 incumbens. Massce pollinis duse, quadrilobse, clavatse, farinoso- 

 pulposse, fills elasticis cohaerentes, et demum rostello affixae. 



" Herbse terrestres, radicibus fibrosis. Folia subradicalia, elon- 

 gato-lanceolata, plicata, basi vaginantia ; scapi radicales, inferne 

 alterne vaginati, apice spicato-multiflori. Flores pedicellati, pedi- 

 cellis basi bractea colorata instructis. 



" SPATHOGLOTTIS PLICATA. 



" Crescit : in locis sylvaticis. 

 '' Floret: omni tempore." 



Leaves lanceolate-acuminate, 2-6 dm. long, 1.8-6 cm. wide, 

 plicate, petiolate, arising from a thickened bulbous base. Scape 

 lateral, arising from the base of the bulb, 3-7 dm. high. Bracts 

 tubular, acute or obtuse, loosely sheathing. Inflorescence race- 

 mose, loose. Floral bracts lanceolate, acute, shorter than the pedi- 

 cels, 9-15 mm. long. Pedicels slender, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, pubescent. 

 Lateral sepals ovate-lanceolate, about 1.5 cm. long, about 8 mm. 

 wide. Upper sepal similar, obtuse. Petals broadly elliptic, 17 

 mm. long, 12 mm. wide. Lip 3-lobed ; the middle lobe slightly 

 the longest; laterals asymmetrically spathulate, at right angles to 

 the terminal one, nearly 1 cm. long, 5 mm. broad at the apex ; 

 terminal lobe a httle over 1 cm. long, apical half cuneate-flabelli- 

 form, sometimes retuse, sometimes bluntly apiculate, narrowly 

 clawed below, 7 mm. broad at the apex ; at the base of this claw 

 a thickened callus of two auriform lobes and an auricle on each 

 side in front of the lateral lobes. Column slender, arcuate, 11 mm. 

 long, winged, thickened above. Anther round-triangular, acumi- 

 nate in front, obtuse. 



" In damp clayey soil along roadsides. Flowers purple or deep 

 pink," Sablan, Prov. Benguet, Luzon, April 12, 1904, A. D. E. 

 Elmer (no. 6207). — Dupax, Nueva Viscaya, Luzon, May 28, 

 1902, E. D. Merrill (no. 297). — On rocks, cliff, river canon. 



