ORCHIDACE^ 



dracei, monophylli. Folium oblanceolatum, apice complicato in 

 visu acutum, in petiolum sensim angustatum, coriaceum. Sea- 

 pus folio approximatus, vaginis laxis flavis tubularibus obtectus. 

 Bracteae inflorescentiae reflexae, lanceolatae. Flores perparvi. 

 Sepala lateralia lanceolato-attenuata apicibus caudatis, mentum 

 saccatum formantia. Sepalum dorsale oblongo-lineare, acumi- 

 natum. Petala linearia, acuta. Labellum in positu naturali sub 

 medio abrupte reflexum, expansum lingulatum, margin ibus 

 lateralibus anterioribus eiliatis. Gynostemium minutum, bra- 

 chiis binis triangularibus et pede apice unciformi instructum. 



Plant small. Rhizome slender, woody, somewhat branched, 

 striate, invested by scarious sheaths. Roots rather numerous, 

 fibrous, flexuous, rigid, glabrous, about .75 mm. thick. Pseu- 

 dobulbs minute, about 3 mm. tall and nearly as broad at the 

 base, thick-cylindric, finely striate-rugose in the dried specimen, 

 monophyllous. Leaf about 6.6 cm. long, 1.9 cm. wide across 

 the upper part, oblanceolate or cuneate, obtuse but complicate 

 and appearing acute at the apex, gradually narrowed to a sul- 

 cate petiole ±2 cm. long, thick and coriaceous, rigid, many-nerved 

 with the mid-nerve more or less sulcate above and sharply car- 

 inate beneath. Scape approximate to each leaf, wrapped — to- 

 gether with the base of the petiole — in several scarious sheaths, 

 the portion below the raceme concealed by several imbricating 

 loose tubular yellow scarious sheaths. Bracts of the inflorescence 

 about 2.8 mm. long, reflexed, lance-attenuate, scarious. Rachis 

 striate (broken off near the base). Flowers (only one present) 

 very small, in form resembling those oi Bulhophyllum adenopeta- 

 lum Lindl. and B.flavescens Lindl. Lateral sepals about 5 mm. 

 long, 1.9 mm. broad, lance-attenuate with long caudate apices 

 produced by the involute margins, forming a saccate mentum, 

 somewhat oblique, three-nerved. Dorsal sepal about 3.7 mm. 



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