ORCHIDACEtE 



The details of the flower recall Lipaiis Janowskyi J. J. Sm., 



a native of New Guinea. 



LoBONG, Clemens 219 (Type), October 1915; Clemens 103, November 

 1915. 



7. Liparis (§ Densiflorae) longipes Lindl. in Wall. PI. As. 



Rar. 1 (1830) 31, t. 35. 



KiAU, Clemens, October 1915. Flowers white; Clemens SS, November 

 1915. 3000 feet altitude. Flowers white; Clemens 38, November 1915. 

 3000 feet altitude. Flowers white; Clemens Jf.9, November 1915. 3000 

 feet altitude. Flowers white; Clemens 90, November 1915. 3000 feet al- 

 titude. Flowers white; Clemens 175, November 1915. 3000 feet altitude. 

 Flowers greenish white; Clemens 337, November 1915. 2500-3000 feet 

 altitude. Flowers cream color. Gurulau Spur, Clemens 312, November 

 1915. ±4000 feet altitude. Flowers cream color. 



8. Liparis (§ Distichae) pandurata Ames sp. nov. Pseudo- 

 bulbi pyriformes, elongati, monophylli. Folium ligulatum, acu- 

 tum, scapo longius. Braeteae inflorescentiae distichae, falcatae, 

 acutae. Flores succedanei, eodem tempore singuli vel perpauci 

 aperti. Sepala lateralia oblonga, acuta. Sepalum dorsale simile. 

 Petala lineari-triangularia, acuta. Labellum panduratum, apice 

 retusum, apiculatum, margine denticulato. In disco callus bi- 

 cornutus. Gynostemium valde arcuatum. 



Rhizome stout, creeping. Pseudobulbs ±5 cm. long, elongated, 

 pyriform, attenuated above into a slender complanate neck, 

 monophyllous, concealed by three diverging ensiform sheaths. 

 Leaf ±3 dm. long, 2 cm. wide, ligulate, acute, narrowed into a 

 conduplicate petiole, deciduous. Scape ±2 dm. long, shorter than 

 the leaf, conspicuously two-winged, naked below the raceme, 

 at base sheathed by the leaf. Racemes ±5 cm. long. Bracts of 

 the inflorescence 7 mm. long, falcate, acute, conduplicate, rigid, 

 obliquely ascending, shorter than the pedicellate ovary, closed at 

 the end. Flowers dark salmon, opening in succession, usually only 



one fully open at a time. Lateral sepals 8 mm. long, about 3 mm. 



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