ORCHIDACE.E 



oblongo-oblanceolata, obliqua, apice late rotundata. Labellum 

 basi sacco semigloboso instructum, crescentiformi-obtriangu- 

 lare, trilobatum ; lobi laterales parsi, triangulares, acuti, porrecti ; 

 lobus medius latissime triangularis, acutus. Gynostemium breve, 

 crassum, pede lato concavo praeditum. 



Plant small, polyphyllous. Roots numerous, fibrous, flexuous, 

 puncturing the leaf sheaths, usually one to each internode, lon- 

 gitudinally sulcate, ±.7 mm. thick. Stem somewhat branching, 

 about 8.5 cm. long measuring along a branch (but broken off 

 below), entirely concealed by leaf sheaths which are tubular, 

 loose, scarious below, coriaceous and rigid-nervose above. Leaves 

 distichous, spreading, ±4 cm. long, 6 mm. broad, hnear-oblong, 

 acute with a dorsal mucro just below the apex, narrowed to a 

 complicate sessile base, coriaceous, rising at intervals of about 

 4 mm. Peduncles spreading or reflexed, 3.3-4.2 cm. long includ- 

 ingthe raceme, filiform, puncturing the leaf sheaths approximate 

 to and just above a root, provided at the base with one or two 

 minute tubular imbricating sheaths, with a similar sheath below 

 the middle, and occasionally an isolated spreading rigid triangu- 

 lar bract near the raceme. Raceme very' short, up to 5 mm. long. 

 Bracts of the inflorescence dense, decurved-spreading, about 

 2 mm. long, triangular, cymbiform, very thick, rigid. Pedicellate 

 ovar\' relatively long and slender, about 4 mm. long. Flower 

 small, pellucid in the dried specimen. Lateral sepals about 6.1 

 mm. long, 3.5 mm. broad above the middle, obovate, more or 

 less complicate-acute, very oblique, indistinctly five-nerved, ad- 

 nate to the foot of the column. Dorsal sepal about 6.1 mm. long, 

 2.6mm. broad abovethe middle, obovate-oblong, broadly rounded 

 above, indistinctly three- to five-nerved. Petals about 5.8 mm. 

 long. 1.0 mm. wide above the middle, oblong-oblanceolate, 

 oblique, broadly rounded at the apex, three-nerved. Lip provided 



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