ORCHIDACE.E 



lanceolata, obliqua, acuta et complicata. Sepalum dorsale multo 

 minus, lanceolatum, acuminatum. Petala perparva, lanceolato- 

 oblonga, acuta vel acuminata. Labellum oblongum, obtusum, 

 parte inferiore carina V-formi praeditum. Gynostemium breve, 

 tridentatum, pede gracili instructum. 



Plant very small. Roots numerous, fibrous, flexuous, less than 

 .5 mm. thick. Rhizome slender, creeping, concealed by scarious 

 sheaths that become fibrous and by the close succession of ap- 

 parently approximate pseudobulbs. Pseudobulbs about 4-5 mm. 

 long, pyriform, monophyllous, obliquely reclining, densely ru- 

 gose in the dried specimen, surrounded by the fibres of sheaths. 

 Leaf about 2.5-3.3 cm. long, 5.4 mm. wide above the middle, 

 oblanceolate-linear, rounded at the apex with somewhat oblique 

 obtuse lobules, gradually naiTOwed below to a sulcate petiole 

 which is up to 5 mm. long, membranaceous in the dried speci- 

 men. Scapes up to 3.5 cm. long, filiform, numerous, glabrous, at 

 the base wTapped with scarious sheaths that become fibrous, the 

 upper part furnished with a pair of infundibuliform, not imbri- 

 cating sheaths. Pedicellate ovary about 1 cm. long, slender, arcu- 

 ate. Flower very large for the plant, when expanded about 2 cm. 

 across the lateral sepals and a little wider from the tip of the 

 dorsal sepal to the apex of the lip, thin and pellucid in the dried 

 specimen. Lateral sepals about 1 cm. long, 5.6 mm. wide, trian- 

 gular-lanceolate, oblique, acute and complicate at the apex, with 

 five prominent nerves. Dorsal sepal much smaller, about 6.5 mm. 

 long, 2.5 mm. wide below, lanceolate, acuminate, concave at 

 the base, prominently three-nerved. Petals about 4.4 mm. long, 

 1.6 mm. broad, oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, promi- 

 nently three-nerved. Lip about 1.15 cm. long, 4.6 mm. broad; 

 claw about 1 mm. long, 1.9 mm. wide, sulcate; lamina oblong, 

 obtuse at the apex, seven-nerved, bearing on the upper surface 



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