ORCHIDACEiE 



1.5 cm. long, stout, puncturing the leaf sheaths about opposite 

 the leaf bases. Racemes abbreviated, ±7 mm. long, about ten- 

 flowered. Bracts of the inflorescence scarcely 1 mm. long, scale- 

 like. Pedicel and ovary ±1.5 cm. long, very slender, spreading. 

 Flowers about 1.5 cm. long. Lateral sepals about 4.5 mm. long, 

 3 mm. wide, obovate-oblong, oblique, obtuse, somewhat cucul- 

 late and dorsally cornute at the apex, prominently one-nerved. 

 Dorsal sepal about 4 mm. long, 2.8 mm. broad when expanded, 

 ovate, strongly concave, broadly rounded at the apex which is 

 sometimes obliquely bilobed, minutely denticulate above. Petals 

 about 3.5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide above the middle, oblong-spat- 

 ulate, broadly rounded at the apex, minutely denticulate above 

 the middle. Lip prominently spurred, three-lobed; lateral lobes 

 about 2-2.5 mm. across the apex, transversely oblong, indistinct, 

 truncate, erect; middle lobe ±1.5 mm. long, triangular, obtuse, 

 upcurved, below the apex fleshy-thickened within ; spur about 

 11 mm. long, cylindric, curved, obtuse, provided on the anterior 

 wall below the base of the mid-lobe with a small callus and on 

 the posterior wall about 4 mm. from the tip with an upcurved 

 ligulate blunt callus that is longitudinally sulcate beneath. Col- 

 umn 3 mm. long, short, fleshy, lacking a distinct foot. Anther tri- 

 angular, cucuUate, prolonged in front into a triangular beak. Pol- 

 linia globose, on a ligulate membranaceous stipe, disc elliptic. 



The very short peduncles and long-spurred flowers make this 

 species distinct. According to the collector's notes the flowers 

 are entirely indigo blue including the pedicels. (Plate 97.) 



Marei Parei Spur, Clemens (Type), November 1915. Flowers indigo 

 blue in all parts; Clemens 267, November 1915. High on trees. Flowers 

 indigo blue; Clemens 368, December 1915. Flowers indigo. 



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