ORCHIDACE^ 



long, erect, rigid, zigzag, with the floral internodes ±1 cm. long. 

 Bracts deciduous except for the apical one ; terminal bract about 

 4.5 cm. long, erect, rigid, apparently lance-linear, convolute, thick. 

 Flowers expanding in succession, large, sho'v\y, glabrous through- 

 out. Sepals more or less gibbous-saccate at the base. Lateral 

 sepals about 4 cm. long, 1.25 cm. wide near the base where broad- 

 est, oblong-lanceolate, long acuminate to a complicate-mucronate 

 apex, slightly falcate, cymbiform, carinate. Dorsal sepal about 

 4.3 cm. long and 1.45 cm. wide, lanceolate, slightly complicate- 

 mucronate, ecarinate. Petals about 3.8 cm. long, 1.75 mm. wide 

 at the base, very narrowly linear, abruptly acute, the lower por- 

 tion three-nerved, the upper part one-nerved. Lip about 3.5 cm. 

 long, 2.15 cm, broad across the side lobes, ovate in outline, 

 deeply trilobed; lateral lobes erect, shghtly exceeding one-half 

 of the lip, free portion about 7 mm. long, 6 mm. wide, oblong- 

 rotundate, overlapping and concealing the narrow sinus ; middle 

 lobe lance-ovate, about 2.25 cm. long, 1.35 cm. broad, rounded at 

 the apex with a broadly obtuse mucro, lateral margins revolute 

 throughout, the lateral zone covered with approximate, parallel, 

 irregular, papillose ridges; two thin, flat, simple keels about 

 2 mm. in height run through a distance about three-fifths the 

 length of the middle lobe, and a very short similar keel, inter- 

 posed between the lateral keels, extends from the base nearly to 

 the middle of the hypochil. Column subequal to the lateral lobes 

 of the Hp, arcuate, from below the middle gradually dilated into 

 a wing which is rounded-truncate above. 



The lip in Clemens 369 shows a much more prominent mucro 

 than the ly^e. 



This species is a near relative of Coelogijne cuprea Wendl. 

 & Kranzl., but differs markedly in the tall narrow pseudobulb, in 

 the size and proportion of the floral segments, and in the char- 



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