ORCHIDACE^ 



approximati,subfusiformes, monophylli,rugosi. Folium erectum, 

 lineare, obtusum, petiolatum, in sicco prominenter trinervium. 

 Pedunculus folio brevior, gracilis, pauciflorus. Inflorescentia in 

 pseudobulbis novellis evolutis, folio multo brevior, rachide tenui. 

 Racemus laxiflorus. Bracteae ovarium aequantes, lanceolatae. 

 Sepala lateralia lanceolata, acuta, trinervia. Sepalum dorsale 

 simile, acutum, trinervium. Petala lanceolata, acuminata, acuta. 

 Labellum subintegrum, oblongum, abrupte acuminatum, in api- 

 cem apiculatum contractum, trinervium, ad basim incrassatum, 

 prope medium bicallosum; calli semiorbiculares, complanati, 

 erecti. Gynostemium breve. Ala apicalis porrecta, concava, ob- 

 tusa. Alae laterales infra medium gynostemii ortae, quam ala 

 apicalis multo breviores, ellipticae. 



Rhizome creeping, perhaps pendent, invested by closely ap- 

 pressed sheaths. Pseudobulbs semi-fusiform, rugose, 1.4 cm. long, 

 3 mm. thick near the middle, ascending, unifoliate. Leaf linear, 

 up to 7 cm. long, 3 mm. wide, obtuse, petiolate, prominently 

 three-nerved. Petiole slender, about 9 mm. long. Peduncle 

 shorter than the leaves, slender, including the raceme ±4 cm. 

 long. Inflorescence few-flowered. Raceme lax. Bracts about 

 equaling the ovaries, lanceolate, acute, strongly concave. Flowers 

 salmon-pink, about 5.5 mm. wide between the tip of the petals 

 when spread out. Lateral sepals 3 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide, 

 lanceolate, acuminate, acute, three-nerved, carinate, larger than 

 the petals. Dorsal sepal similar to the laterals. Petals slightly nar- 

 rower than the sepals, 2.5 mm. long, lanceolate, acute. Labellum 

 about 2 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide, oblong, abruptly con- 

 tracted near the apex into an elongated, apiculate tip, three- 

 nerved, with two flattened abbreviated lamellae, one on each 

 side of the disc just below the middle; lamellae suborbicular, 

 flattened laterally; behind the lamellae the lip is much thick- 



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