ORCHIDACE^ 



lowermost blades articulated with loose, scarious, infundibuli- 

 form sheaths. Inflorescences entirely lateral, about 1 cm. long, 

 few-flowered, much surpassed by the leaves, piercing the sheaths 

 at the middle of the internodes, spreading-ascending. Bracts 

 about 3 mm. long, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, carinate, the 

 dorsal keel forming a mucronate apex, strongly concave. Flowers 

 minute. Lateral sepals about 2.5 mm. long, about as wide, broadly 

 triangular, very oblique, acute, strongly carinate, somewhat cym- 

 biform above, forming a saccate mentum, three-nerved. Dorsal 

 sepal about 2.5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, lance-ovate, obtuse or 

 subacute, concave, one- or indistinctly three-nerved. Petals about 

 2 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, ligulate or oblong, broadly rounded 

 above and sometimes mucronate, one-nerved. Lip in natural 

 position spatulate or spatulate-obovate, lower portion contracted 

 by a hippocrepiform callus, upper half semi-orbicular with a mi- 

 nute callus in the middle of the apex, anterior margin undulate ; 

 lamina when spread out about 2.3 mm. long, 1.8 mm. broad, sub- 

 orbicular-oval. Column stout, large for the flower, provided above 

 with an ascending triangular bidentate rostellum and below 

 with a relatively long foot. 



The species most nearly allied to Appendicula minutifloi^a ap- 

 pear to be ^. cornuta Bl., A. cyclopetala Schltr., A. lucida Ridl., 

 A. micrantha Lindl., and A. refleoca Bl. From all, it is clearly 

 distinct in the very small flowers. The broad leaves and exclu- 

 sively lateral inflorescences are also characteristic marks of this 

 plant. 



KiAU, Clemens 333, November 1915. Flower yellow and purple. 



9. Appendicula rupicola {Ridl.) Rolfe in Gibbs in Joum. 



Linn. Soc. 42 (1914) 159. Podochilus rupicola Ridl. in Journ. 



Str. Br. Roy. As. Soc. 50 (1908) 142. 



Rolfe, 1. c, says : " A fruiting specimen agreeing well with this 



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