ORCHIDACE^ 



3.5-5 cm. long, 1-1.3 cm. wide, very numerous, distichous, 

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

 unequally bilobed more or less complicate apex with a mucro 

 between the lobules, rounded to a clasping base, subcoriace- 

 ous, many-nerved with three nerves rather prominent beneath, 

 at intervals of ±1 cm. Inflorescences ±1 cm. long, about three- 

 flowered, very numerous, entirely lateral, single or several in a 

 fascicle, in the middle of the internodes, base concealed by scari- 

 ous sheaths. Rachis spreading-ascending or reflexed in course of 

 development, strongly zigzag. Bracts about 6 mm. long, ovate, 

 acuminate, strongly concave, distichous, scarious, nervose, much 

 surpassing the pedicellate ovary. Flower very similar to that of 

 A. magnibracteata A. & S., but slightly smaller, pellucid in the 

 dried specimen. Lateral sepals about 4.6 mm. long, 3.5-4 mm. 

 wide, triangular, long acuminate to a complicate-mucronate 

 apex, oblique, forming a very deeply saccate mentum, three- 

 nerved, carinate. Dorsal sepal about 4.5 mm. long, 2.5 mm. broad 

 at the base, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate to a complicate apex, 

 concave, three-nerved, carinate. Petals about 4.5 mm. long, 1.25 

 mm. wide, linear, acute to more or less rounded at the apex, one- 

 nerved. Lip in natural position folded against the column, spatu- 

 late with the lower portion or hj'pochil saccate-conduphcate, 

 the upper portion or epichil abruptly dilated into a reflexed ter- 

 minal lobe; lamina when expanded about 6 mm. long and 3.5- 

 4 mm. broad; claw short decurved; hypochil deeply saccate at 

 base and when spread out suborbicular with the anterior margins 

 continued into the center of the middle lobe or epichil ; middle 

 lobe transversely oval, more or less retuse. Column very short, 

 provided above with a conspicuous long attenuate bidentate 

 rostellum which is about 2.5 mm. long and below with a prom- 

 inent deeply unciform foot. Pollinia very slender pyriform. 



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