ORCHIDACE^ 



cream color and yellow with purple stripes. Lobong Cave, Clemens 128, 

 November 1915. Flower cream color, pink stripes, white column. Guru- 

 LAU Ridge, Clemens 304, November 1915. Flower cream color and pui*ple. 



6. Dendrobium (§ Sarcopodium) kinabaluense Eidl. in 



Stapf in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, 4 (1894) 234. 



KiNABALU, Havilcmd} 7000 feet altitude. Epiphytic. Kamborangah, 

 Clemens 197^ November 1915. Flower yellow with pink on lip. Marei 

 Parei Spur, Clemens ^^5, November 1915. Flower cream color; Clemens 

 367, December 1915. Flower yellow ; Clemens 370 A, December 1915. 



7. Dendrobium (§ Desmotrichum) longirepens -^.<i§ *S'. 5p. 

 nov. Rhizoma longe repens. Pseudobulbi subremoti, monophylli, 

 anguste pyriformes vel rarius fusiformes, obliqui, sulcati. Folium 

 oblongum, apice rotundatum et inconspicue bilobulum, ad basim 

 breviter angustatum. Floras singuli, purpurei, e summa pseudo- 

 bulbi exorientes. Sepala lateralia ovato-oblonga, acuta, mucro- 

 nata. Sepalum dorsale simile, late rotundatum, plus minusve 

 mucronatum. Petala oblanceolato-oblonga, apice late rotundata. 

 Labellum in circuitu suborbiculare, fere in medio trilobatum; 

 lobi laterales erecti, late rotundati ; lobus medius major, suborbi- 

 cularis, papillosus ; callus triangularis in medio stat. Gynoste- 

 mium late alatum; ala apice angusta obtusa cucullata; peslatus 

 saccatus. 



Rhizome long creeping, slender, terete, rarely branched, many- 

 jointed, yellowish-green and shining in the dried plant, invested 

 by brownish imbricating scarious sheaths. Roots rather sparingly 

 produced from the under side of the rhizome, slender, fibrous, 

 simple or sparingly branched, the older minutely and finely ver- 

 ruculose and rarely showing black spreading hairs, about .5 mm. 

 thick. Pseudobulbs ±1.5 cm. high, narrowly pyriform or rarely 

 fusiform, obliquely reclining, sulcate or rugose, at distances of 

 3 cm. or less, concealed by sheaths when immature. Leaf about 



* This is the type of the species. 



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