ORCHIDACE^ 



Marei Pakki Spur, Clemens '225^ November 1915. Flower white; Clem- 

 ens 295, November 1915. Flower white; Clemens JfOB, December 1915. 

 Flower white with pink tips. 



28. CHILOPOGON Schltr. 



This genus has not hitherto been reported from Borneo. 



I. Chilopogon kinabaluensis A.8^S. sp. nov. Herba nana. 

 Caules approximati, patentes, suberecti. Folia numerosa, dis- 

 ticha, oblongo-lanceolata, apice rotundato minute bilobulata, 

 basi ampleetentia. Inflorescentia terminalis, densa. Segmenta 

 perianthii conniventia. Sepala lateralia ovato-lanceolata, con- 

 spicue mucronata, obliqua, mentum saccatum formantia. Se- 

 palum dorsale lanceolatum, minus mucronatum. Petala ligulata, 

 apice rotundata. Labellum expansum ovato-oblongum, lata ro- 

 tundatum, in parte tertia apicali lamella late bilobata, prope 

 apicem super sinum lamellae tuberculo papilliformi praeditum ; 

 carina media incrassata e basi ad lamellam decurrit. Gynoste- 

 mium breve, latum, quadridentatum. 



Plant low, 7-21 cm. tall. Roots slender, fibrous, finely tomen- 

 tose or glabrate. Stems approximate, spreading, suberect to very 

 slightly arcuate, striate to striate-sulcate, about 1.5 mm. thick. 

 Leaves very variable in size, ±2 cm. long, 8 mm. broad, numer- 

 ous, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, distichous, 

 horizontally spreading, at the apex rounded, minutely bilobed and 

 apiculate (the lobules acute), clasping at the base, rigid, subcori- 

 aceous, articulated with short scarious infundibuliform sheaths. 

 Inflorescence terminal, ±2 cm. long, dense, simple or rarely two- 

 forked, subtended by a few oblong, mucronate, foliaceous bracts. 

 Floral bracts about 4.1 mm. long, 3.5 mm. broad near the base, 

 ovate to ovate-oblong, truncate, mucronate, crisped, erose, mem- 

 branaceous, three-nerved. Perianth segments connivent. Lateral 

 sepals about 3.5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide at the base, ovate-lanceo- 



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