ORCHIDACE^ 



matiis, perbrevis, vaginis nonnuUis laxis tubularibus instructus. 

 Riicemus laxiflorus. Bracteae inflorescentiae lineari-lanceolatae. 

 Flores perparvi. Sepala lateralia lanceolato-attenuata apicibus 

 caudatis. Sepalum dorsale simile sed minus. Petala perparva, 

 oblongo-linearia, obtusa. Labellum parvum, in positu naturali 

 decm'vum, dimidio inferiore membranaceo lateribus erecto-con- 

 duplicatis, parte anteriore elliptica obtusa; lamina expansa tri- 

 angulari-lingulata, ciliata. Gynostemium minutum, brachiis tri- 

 angularibus acuminatis et pede graeili praeditum. 



Plant small, very slender. Rhizome slender, about 2-2.5 mm. 

 thick, creeping, woody, sulcate in the dried specimen, invested by 

 scarious sheaths that become fibrous. Roots numerous, fibrous, 

 flexuous, finely puberulent, sometimes longitudinally sulcate, 

 about .4 mm. thick. Pseudobulbs very minute, about 1-1.5 mm. 

 in height, cylindric, subapproximate, reclining, monophyllous, 

 sulcate-rugose in the dried plant. Leaf about 8-11 cm. long, 

 5-8.5 mm. broad, narrowly linear, often more or less falcate, 

 acute and minutely complicate or rounded at the apex, gradu- 

 ally narrowed into an indistinct sulcate petiole, subcoriaceous, 

 the mid-nerve more or less sulcate above and carinate beneath. 

 Scape approximate to the pseudobulb, about 3.5 mm. long, arcu- 

 ate or flexuous, provided with several loose tubular membrana- 

 ceous sheaths, invested below — together with the base of the 

 petiole — by several loose tubular imbricating scarious sheaths. 

 Raceme loose, up to ten-flowered. Bracts of the inflorescence 

 about 2.5-3 mm. long, linear-lanceolate, surpassing the pedi- 

 cellate ovary. Flowers very small. Perianth segments connivent. 

 Lateral sepals about 5 mm. long, 1.3 mm. wide at the base, lance- 

 attenuate with long caudate apices, one- or indistinctly three- 

 nerved. Dorsal sepal similar, about 4 mm. long, .8 mm. wide, 

 concave below. Petals very small, about 1.25 mm. long, .35 mm. 



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