ORCHIDACE^ 



fleshy, brownish ; lateral lobes rounded, from the base minutely 

 fringed on the outer margin ; middle lobe 3 mm. long, 3 mm. 

 wide, rotundate, apiculate. Carinae two, fleshy, at base connected 

 by a transverse thickening of the disc, evanescent below the mid- 

 dle of the mid-lobe, middle nerve prominent. Gynostemium about 

 3 mm. long. Stelidia near the middle of the column but not 

 basal, reaching as high as the rostellum, narrowly triangular, ob- 

 tuse, divergent. Terminal wing subquadrate, tridentate, erose or 

 denticulate at the tip. 



A very beautiful and showy orchid with the general aspect of 

 £>. cornutum Bl. (Plate 84.) 



Kamborangah, Clemens W5 (Type), November 1915. Mabei Parei 

 Ridge, Clemens 385^ December 1915. Flowers yellow with brown tongue. 



15. Dendrochilum kinabaluense Rolfe in Gibbs in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. 42 (1914) 148. 



This species and D. Gibhsiae Rolfe are very similar in the struc- 

 ture of the flower and in general aspect. 



Mabei Parei Spltb, G'lbhs 1^.085, February 1910. In mossy forest. 7000 

 feet altitude. Flowers yellow with a small brown blotch on the lip. 



16. Dendrochilum lancilabium Ames sp. nov. Pseudobulbi 

 approximati vel usque ad 2 cm. distantes, monophylli. Folium 

 lineari-lanceolatum, obtusum, breviter apiculatum. Pedunculus 

 gracilis, multiflorus. Bracteae inflorescentiae patentes. Sepala 

 lateralia triangulari-lanceolata, acuta. Sepalum dorsale lanceola- 

 tum, acutum. Petala anguste lanceolata, acuminata, acuta, ob- 

 scure denticulata. Labellum simplex, lanceolatum, acumina- 

 tum, acutum, bicallosum. Gynostemium gracile. Stelidia linearia, 

 basilaria. Ala apicalis simplex vel trilobata. 



Pseudobulbs 5 mm. thick, either contiguous or 2 cm. apart 

 on the stout creeping rhizome, ±5 cm. long, very slender when 

 dry, cylindrical or fusiform, monophyllous, stem-like. Leaf ±2 dm. 



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