ORCHIDACE^ 



many-nerved with the mid-nerve strongly sulcate above and car- 

 inate beneath, the margins revolute in the dried specimen, inter- 

 vals between the leaves 2-3 cm. Inflorescences usually terminal, 

 angularly much branched and divaricate, up to 20 cm. long and 

 wide, without any common peduncle or the same up to 2 cm. 

 long. Racemes 2.5-7 cm. long, about 6.5 mm. wide, numerous, 

 flexuous or arcuate, crowded with very small, rigid, distichous, 

 densely imbricating, cymbiform bracts, rarely sessile from the 

 uppermost internodes. Flowers large and showy. Sepals fleshy. 

 Lateral sepals about 2.5 cm. long, 9 mm. wide, oblong, slightly 

 oblique, acute, very strongly carinate at and near the apex, thick- 

 ened at the base, about nine-nerved. Dorsal sepal about 2.35 cm. 

 long, 8 mm. broad, very similar. Petals about 2.25 cm. long, 

 6.5 mm. broad, thinner in texture, oblanceolate-oblong, oblique, 

 gently falcate, apex rounded but its tip acute, five- to seven- 

 nerved. Lip lance-oblong in outline, three-lobed, about 2.15 cm. 

 long, 1 cm. broad below the middle; hypochil elliptic, about 1.4 

 cm. long, terminating in very small triangular spreading lobules, 

 with a broad thickened median zone extending from the base 

 indefinitely beyond the center ; epichil obovate-oblong, with the 

 anterior half suborbicular, shallowly retuse, papillose-thickened 

 the thickening extending down the middle, margins on each side 

 of the apex strongly involute in natural position. Column about 

 1.65 cm. long, 4-4.5 mm. broad, fleshy, with a broadly rounded 

 wing above. 



Apparently there are no near allies of this plant. 



Marei Parei Spur, Clemens 389, December 1915. Flower cream color, 

 drops easily. 



2. Bromheadia rigida Ridl. in Stapf in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 Ser. 2, 4 (1894) 239. 



KiNABALU, Haviland 1251. 6000 feet altitude. 



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