ORCHIDACE.E 



Clemens 372, December 19i5. Flower purple. Kiau, Clejnens ^6" J(, Novem- 

 ber 1915. 3000 feet altitude. LobongCave, Clemens 116 A, November 1915. 



8. Dendrobium (§Crumenata) minimum A. &^ S. sp. nov. 

 Herba gracilis. Caules approximati, prope basini in partem iii- 

 crassatam oblongam, valdissime complanatam dilatati, graciles, 

 pluriarticulati, plus minusve rainosi. Folia disticha, anguste 

 linearia, sensim acuminata, apice profunde et acriter bilobata. 

 Floras perparvi, e nodis superioribus exorientes. Sepala lateralia 

 ovato-triangularia, obtusa vel subacuta, obliqua, falcata, men- 

 tum conspicue saccatum formantia. Sepalum dorsale lanceola- 

 tum, acuminatum. Petala linearia, obtusa vel acuta, falcata. La- 

 bellum flabellatum, latissime truncatum, involutum, leviter de- 

 curvum, margine anteriore lato inconspicue sed profunde emar- 

 ginato. Gynostemium perparvum, late alatum; ala emarginata, 

 apiculata; pede lato saccato. 



Plant slender, up to 45 cm. or more high. Roots numerous, 

 slender, fibrous, flexuous, more or less longitudinally sulcate, gla- 

 brous, intertwining, up to 1 mm. thick. Stems approximate, near 

 the base broadened into a strongly complanate, two- or three- 

 jointed, sulcate, oblong, bulbous thickening which is up to 8 cm. 

 long and 10.5 mm. wide where broadest, slender above, laterally 

 flattened, many-jointed, more or less branched, yellow, shining, 

 when immature invested throughout by long tubular scarious 

 leaf sheaths that become fibrous in late development ; the inter- 

 nodes — as seen on the older naked stems — 2.3 cm. long, the 

 nodes slightly inflated. Leaves up to 8.6 cm. long, 4.8 mm. wide 

 near the base, distichous, linear, grass-like, long acuminate, ver^^ 

 unequally and sharply bilobed at the apex, rounded at the clasp- 

 ing base, spreading, somewhat coriaceous, many-nerved with the 

 mid-nerve prominent beneath. Flowers very small, rising singly 

 from the uppermost nodes opposite the leaves, surrounded with 



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