ORCHIDACEJE 



crowded pseudobulbs, uniformly white flowers and the bracts of 

 the scape imbricating. 



The minute pseudobulbs, broad leaves and long caudate se- 

 pals characterize this plant. 



KiAU, Clemens 56, November 1915. 3000 feet altitude. Flower yellow, 

 white and orange. 



19. Bulbophyllum (§Racemosae) magnivaginatum ^. (§ 

 S. sp. 710V. Herba robusta. Rhizoma repens, crassum. Pseudo- 

 bulbi perparvi, crasso-cylindracei, monophylli. Folium oblongum 

 vel oblanceolato-oblongum, apice late rotundatum, ad petiolum 

 sulcatum crassum angustatum, coriaceum. Scapus pseudobulbo 

 approximatus, vaginis duabus magnis laxis infundibuliformibus 

 instructus. Racemus dense multiflorus. Bracteae inflorescentiae 

 lanceolatae, acuminatae. Flores perparvi. Sepala lateralia oblique 

 triangulari-lanceolata, complicato-mucronata,mentum profunde 

 saccatum formantia. Sepalum dorsale oblongum, obtusum vel 

 acutum, valde concavum. Petala lanceolato-oblonga, apice late 

 rotundata. Labellum in positu naturali valde decurvum, parte 

 inferiore membranacea lateribus erecto-conduplicatis, dimidio 

 anteriore elliptico carnoso convexo; lamina expansa lingulata 

 obtusa. Gynostemium minutum, brachiis binis triangularibus 

 abrupte subulatis praeditum. Pes tuberculatus, unciformis. 



Plant stout. Rhizome stout, terete, creeping, woody, about 

 7.5 mm. thick, invested by close scarious evanescent sheaths. 

 Roots very numerous, fibrous, flexuous, longitudinally sulcate, 

 finely verrucose, about 1 mm. thick. Pseudobidbs very small, 

 about 3.5-4 mm. high, 6 mm. broad at the base, thick-cylindric, 

 monophyllous, inconspicuously striate-rugose, yellowish. Leaf 

 about 24-26 cm. long, 3.9-5.25 cm. wide, oblong to oblanceolate- 

 oblong, broadly rounded above, cuneate-narrowed to the peti- 

 ole, coriaceous, with the mid-nerve sulcate above and conspicu- 



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