ORCHIDACE^ 



1. Appendicula congesta Ridl in Stapf in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 Sen 2, 4 (1894) 239. 



Penokok River, Haviland 1302. 11,000 feet altitude. 



2. Appendicula divaricata A. S;^ S. sp. nov. Herba in visu 

 robusta. Caules complanati, vaginis foliorum omnino obtecti. 

 Folia numerosa, disticha, elliptica vel oblongo-elliptica, apice 

 basique rotundata, in sicco chartacea. Rami floriferi plus minusve 

 horizontales, vaginis adpressis scariosis obtecti. Rachis fracti- 

 sinuosa. Bracteae inflorescentiae minutae, ovatae, reflexae. Flo- 

 res in sicco pellucidi. Sepala lateralia late triangularia, obliquis- 

 sima, mentum profunde saccatum formantia. Sepalum dorsale 

 multo minus, ovatum, valde concavum. Petala oblonga vel ob- 

 ovato-oblonga, apice rotundata. Labellum oblongum, pandu- 

 ratum, apice rotundato-bilobatum, carina hippocrepiformi in- 

 structum. Gynostemium perparvum, pede lato longo unciformi 

 praeditum. 



Plant apparently tall and stout, with prominent horizontal or 

 widely spreading branches. Stems strongly complanate, entirely 

 concealed by the sheaths of the leaves, sheathed stems up to 

 6 mm. thick. Leaf sheaths thin, striate-nervose. Leaves very 

 variable in size (those of the young shoots much smaller), up 

 to 4.3 cm. long, 1.5 cm. broad, numerous, distichous, obliquely 

 spreading, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, rounded above with the 

 apex unequally and indistinctly bilobed with the lobules over- 

 lapping, rounded and clasping at the base, thin, chartaceous, 

 many-nerved with the mid-nerve carinate beneath. Floriferous 

 branches about 10 cm. or more long, mostly straight, vtddely 

 spreading, horizontal or slightly reflexed, densely invested by 

 appressed scarious nervose sheaths that become fibrous. Racemes 

 about 4 cm. long, apparently subsessile at or near the end of the 



naked branches, flexuous or spreading with a zigzag rachis. Bracts 



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