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Malaxis Elmeri differs from M. Williamsii, to which it is 

 very similar, by its larger flowers and by the relatively wider mid- 

 dle lobe of the labellum. The minute teeth of the lateral lobes 

 are very variable, and may be absent from either lobe. 



Flowers greenish, on rock, Baguio, Prov. Benguet, northern 

 Luzon, June, 1904, A. D. E. Elmer (no. 6621). — June 13, 1904, 

 R. S. Williams (no. 1110). 



? M. FLAVESCENS (Bl.) comb. nov. — Crepidium Jlavescens 

 Blume Bijdr. 388 (1825). — Microstylis jlavescens Lindley Orch. 

 PL 20 (1830) ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 : 625 ; Ridley Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. 24: 337 (1888) ; ? J. J. Smith Orch. Java 250 (not Ic. Bog. 

 2, t. 107, D). 



" CREPIDIUM. Perianthii sepala 5 reflexa, margine revoluta ; 

 dorsali reliquis longiore. Labellum basi excavatum, cum gyno- 

 stemio inferne coalitum ; limbus semilunatus, gynostemium am- 

 plectens, patens. Anther a bilocularis, gynostemium breve incurvum 

 biauriculatum postice terminans. Massac polluiis in quoque loculo 

 solitariae, bipartibiles, ovatse, incurvae, pulposocereaceae, margini 

 stigmatis incumbentes. C. flavescens. C : foliis ovato-lanceolatis, 

 lab ell o integerrimo." — Blume, Bijdr. 387. 



Stems thickened, clothed by several long chartaceous or scari- 

 ous acute bracts. Leaves 2-3, broadly to narrowly lanceolate, 

 3-10 cm. long, acute, 1.5-3.5 cm. wide, conspicuously 5-7 nerved. 

 Petiole broad, sheathing the stem. Peduncle up to 10 cm. long, 

 rather conspicuously winged. Bracts pendent, linear-lanceolate, 

 acute, ± 3.5 mm. long. Flowers small, brownish yellow, in slender 

 spicate racemes up to 8 cm. long. Lateral sejials suborbicular, 

 obtuse, 3-nerved, 2.5-3.5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide. Upper sepal 

 oblong-elliptical, obtuse, 4 mm. long, 2 mm. wide. Petals oblan- 

 ceolate, obtuse, 3 mm. long, 1 mm. wide. Labellum entire, orbic- 

 ular-reniform, 3 mm. wide, about 2 mm. long. 



The identity of M. jlavescens is doubtful. 



