ORCHIDACE.E 



Flower yellow with purple blotches outside and wine-colored column; 

 Clemens 360, November 1915. Flower cream color. 



3. Appendicula foliosa A. &^ S. sp. nov. Herba robusta. 

 Caules vaginis foliorum omnino vestiti. Folia disticha, elliptica 

 vel elliptico-oblonga, obtusa vel in visu subacuta, basi rotundata 

 amplectentia, chartacea, patentia. Inflorescentiae numerosae, 

 laterales et oppositifoliae, interdum terminales. Bracteae ovatae, 

 concavae, reflexae. Sepala lateralia latissime triangularia, obli- 

 quissima, obtusa, mentum conspicue saccatum formantia. Sepa- 

 lum dorsale lanceolato-ovatum, obtusum, concavum. Petala line- 

 aria vel angustissime lanceolata, apice late rotundata. Labellum 

 in positu naturali spathulatum, parte longa basali carina hippo- 

 crepiformi contracta, deinde subito in laminam reflexam sub- 

 orbieularem dilatatum; in parte anteriore callis duobus carnosis 

 approximatis. Gynostemium breve, rostello conspicuo ovato et 

 pede longo unciformi instructum. 



Plant tall, stout. Stem erect and simple, very rarely producing 

 small lateral offshoots, entirely concealed by the sheaths of the 

 leaves. Leaf sheaths striate-sulcate, apparently densely punc- 

 tate,^ becoming fibrous in course of development ; sheathed stem 

 up to 1 cm. thick. Leaves very numerous, distichous, widely 

 spreading, ±9 cm. long, 2.5 cm. broad (up to 10.5 cm. long, 3.2 cm. 

 broad), elliptic to elliptic-oblong, obtuse or apparently subacute, 

 indistinctly bilobed at the apex with the lobules overlapping and 

 microscopically erose, rounded at the clasping base, chartaceous, 

 more or less prominently seven- to nine-nerved on both sides, 

 at intervals of ±2 cm. Inflorescences very numerous, about 

 5-Qf cm. long, lateral and opposite the leaf bases and sometimes 

 terminal also, occasionally two-forked, arcuate-ascending, hori- 



1 The close but irregular dark brown dots that are universal on the sheathed stems and also 

 occur somewhat on the leaves and even on the bracts and flowers of the type material are 

 probably fungous growth. 



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