ORCHIDACE.E 



two very large conspicuous tubular-inflated sheaths on the scape. 



It is vegetatively larger and stouter than Bulbophyllum gibbo- 



sum Lindl., and has different petals. It is distinguished from 



B. obtudpetalum J. J. Sm. by the much longer peduncle below 



the raceme and by its smaller flowers. It differs from B. sacca- 



tum Kranzl. in the longer petioles, broader leaves and larger lip. 



KiNABALu, Clemens, November-December 1915 ; Haslam, July- August 

 1916. KiAU, Clemens 36 (Type), November 1915. 3000 feet altitude. 

 Flower cream color and yellow; Clemens 4S, November 1915. 3000 feet 

 altitude. Flower yellow with orange column ; Clemens 325, November 

 1915. Flower yellow; Clemens 35^, November 1915. Flower cream color 

 with red column. 



20. Bulbophyllum (§Racemosae) minutifiorum A. (% *S'. 

 sp. 710V. Herba perparva. Rhizoma repens, teres. Pseudobulbi 

 minutissimi, monophylli. Folium lineare, subacutum vel obtu- 

 sum, in petiolum gracilem sulcatum contractum, crasse coria- 

 ceum, in sicco rigidum. Scapus pseudobulbo approximatus, tarde 

 folium excedens, vaginis nonnullis membranaceis tubulatis prae- 

 ditus. Racemus laxiflorus. Bracteae inflorescentiae anguste lan- 

 ceolatae, patentes. Flores minuti. Sepala lateralia triangulari- 

 lanceolata, falcata, obliqua, complicato-mucronata, mentum 

 saccatum formantia. Sepalum dorsale oblongum, comphcato- 

 mucronatum, valde concavum. Petala oblanceolato-oblonga, ob- 

 tusa vel raro subacuta. Labellum in positu naturali valde decur- 

 vum, parte inferiore membranacea lateribus erecto-conduplica- 

 tis, dimidio anteriore subcarnoso late elliptico; lamina expansa 

 ovato-lingulata, obtusa. Gynostemium minutum, brachiis binis 

 triangulari-lanceolatis acuminatis et pede unciform! instructum. 



Plant very small. Rhizome terete, woody, creeping, somewhat 

 branched, invested by close scarious sheaths that become fibrous, 

 about 3.4 mm. thick. Roots very numerous, fibrous, flexuous, 

 about .5 mm. thick. Pseudobulbs minute, about 1 mm. high, 



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