ORCHIDACE^ 



bilobulate at the rounded apex, cuneate-narrowed at the base, 

 indistinctly petioled, coriaceous, translucent in the dried speci- 

 men, the mid-nerve carinate beneath. Scapes, up to the bract, 

 about 3.5-4.5 cm. high, filiform, apparently one-flowered (flowers 

 detached), rising singly from the base of the pseudobulbs, the de- 

 cumbent base invested by a scarious sheath or fibres of sheaths, 

 bearing a minute infundibuliform bract at the summit. Pedicel- 

 late ovary very slender, arcuate, up to 2.1 cm. long. Flower large 

 for the plant, membranaceous in the dried specimen. Lateral 

 sepals ±1.3 cm. long and 4.3 mm. wide below the middle, ob- 

 long-lanceolate, acute, minutely cellular on the margins, four- 

 nerved. Dorsal sepal similar but smaller, ±1 cm. long and 3 mm. 

 wide, acute, three- to five-nerved. Petals minute, about 2.2 mm. 

 long and 1 mm. wide above the middle, spatulate-oblong, broadly 

 rounded at the apex, one-nerved. Lip very small, fleshy, elevated 

 on the naked end of the column foot, in natural position strongly 

 decurved just below the middle and about 3.5 mm. long, the 

 sides of the basal portion erect and conduplicate, the anterior 

 portion ovate with a broad more or less truncate apex; limb 

 when extended oblong-obovate, about 3.5 mm. long and 2.3 mm. 

 broad above the middle, truncate at the base, five-nerved. Col- 

 umn short, stout, furnished with a pair of prominent parallel sub- 

 ulate arms and provided with a foot which is stout and inflated 

 at the base tapering abruptly to a short slender free stipe. Pol- 

 linia two, obliquely complanate-ovoid. 



In general habit this little plant simulates Bulbophyllum cor- 

 ticicola Schltr. but it has longer pseudobulbs, scapes more than 

 twice as long and larger sepals. In respect to flower structure 

 only, this species resembles B. montense Ridl. 



The peculiar rope-like rhizome, the large sepals and the mi- 

 nute petals and lip are diagnostic characters. 



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