ORCHIDACEiE 



branched, very finely pubescent. Stems suberect from a more or 

 less decumbent root-like base, about 10-17 cm. long (but broken 

 off below; a very dwarf plant is about 5 cm. high), zigzag, entirely 

 invested by the laterally flattened, coriaceous, striate-nervose 

 leaf sheaths. Leaves about five to eleven, distichous, spreading, 

 8.5-11.1 cm. long, 1.7-2.1 cm. broad (the dwarf plant shows a 

 leaf 1.1 cm. wide), oblong-elliptic to narrowly oblong, sometimes 

 slightly oblique, very prominently obliquely and obtusely bilobed 

 at the apex, cuneate-narrowed to a sessile complicate base, cori- 

 aceous, many-nerved with the mid-nerve conspicuously carinate 

 beneath, rising at intervals of ±1.1 cm. Peduncles two, punctur- 

 ing the middle leaf sheaths opposite a leaf-base, with the raceme 

 included much exceeding the leaves, suberect to arcuate-de- 

 flexed, up to the rachis 3-6 cm. long, at the base and below the 

 middle provided with a very small, loose, scarious, infundibuli- 

 form sheath. Rachis about 12-22 cm. long, very loosely many- 

 flowered, sinuously zigzag, striate-sulcate, very minutely papil- 

 late. Bracts of the inflorescence very small, spreading, about 

 2.7 mm. long, triangular-lanceolate, deeply concave with invo- 

 lute margins. Flower about 9 mm. long from the upper margin 

 of the dorsal sepal to the apex of the spur, perianth spreading, 

 pellucid in the dried specimen. Lateral sepals about 3 mm. long, 

 2.75 mm. broad above the middle, suborbicular-obovate, acute, 

 very oblique, with three subapproximate nerves. Dorsal sepal 

 about 4 mm. long, apparently 3-3.8 mm. broad, very cucullate 

 or complanate-pileate, obtuse or subacute. Petals about 3 mm. 

 long, 2 mm. wide, ovate, broadly obtuse, oblique, three-nerved. 

 Lip three-lobed, prominently spurred, 7-8 mm. long from the 

 apex of the erect lateral lobes to the tip of the spur ; lateral lobes 

 small, obliquely triangular, about 1.5 mm. long and broad at the 

 base, fleshy, rounded at the apex, provided without with an 



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