ORCHIDACEtE 



very oblique and separated by a mucro, complicate at the base, 

 thickly coriaceous, many-nerved with the mid-nerve more or less 

 sulcate above and prominently carinate beneath, rising at inter- 

 vals of about 3-4 cm. Inflorescences numerous, apparently one- 

 to three-flowered, puncturing the lower part of the leaf sheaths. 

 Flowers (all detached) about 4.5 cm. across, showy, sub-fleshy 

 with spreading segments. Sepals, and to a less extent the petals, 

 under surface broadly sulcate in the dried specimen. Lateral 

 sepals about 2.2 cm. long, 1 cm. broad above, oblanceolate, very 

 broadly rounded at the apex. Dorsal sepal about 2.3 cm. long, 

 1 cm. wide above, very similar. Petals about 2.2 cm. long, 9 mm. 

 broad above, 2 mm. wide at the base, cuneate-spatulate, very 

 broadly rounded above, mid-nerve sometimes conspicuously sul- 

 cate above and carinate beneath. Lip small, adnate to the base 

 of the column, about 1.1 cm. long, 1-2 mm. broad, narrowly 

 linear, three-lobed; lateral lobes spreading, about 4.5 mm. long 

 on the upper margin, 3.5 mm. long on the lower margin, linear, 

 slightly broader above, obliquely rounded at the apex, fleshy; 

 middle lobe linear, thick and fleshy, slightly broader above then 

 narrowed to an obscurely emarginate apex, with a minute blunt 

 tooth on each side near the base, densely pubescent, furnished 

 with a very convex, fleshy, pubescent callus occupying the entire 

 width of the mid-lobe and terminating abruptly about 4 mm. 

 from the apex of the lip where the callus is about 2 mm. in 

 height ; an ovate pubescent lamella stands at the slightly concave 

 base of the lip. Column about 4.5 mm. long and broad, stout, 

 short, pubescent. 



This species is a near ally of Trichoglottis Uexkulliana J. J. 

 Sm., but the Kinabalu plant has much longer sepals and difl^er- 

 ent mid-lobe of the lip. 



Kinabalu, Haslam, July-August 1916. 



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