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long, slender, few. Rhizome with several 

 tubular bracts. Leaves numerous, those 

 near the rhizome often much reduced 

 (1 cm. long, 5 mm. wide), those nearest 

 the inflorescence ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 comparatively large (2-4 cm. long, ± 1.5 

 cm. wide). Peduncle graceful, ascending 

 or erect, ± 4 cm. long, provided with de- 

 flexed, linear, acute, ± 4 mm. long bracts. 

 Inflorescence loosely few-flowered. Ped- 

 icels slender, about 2 mm. long. Lateral 

 sejjals oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 3 mm. 



long. Upper sepal similar to the laterals, but somewhat narrower. 



Petals linear, 3 mm. long. Labellum not 3-lobed, bluntly sagittate, 



the auricles oblong, falcate, about 2 mm. long. 



Malaxis Merrillii 



Terrestrial at base of cliff in dense forest at 5800 ft. alt. on 

 Mt. Halcon, November 15, 1906, E. D. Merrill (no. 5820). 

 Endemic. 



M. BANCANOIDES sp. nov. Aff. M. bancance (Ridley) Kuntze. 

 Herb a magna, foliosa, 45 cm. alta, floribus parvis, flavis (?), in 

 racemo gracili, spicato, 1 dm. longo. Pars infima caulis bractels 

 amplis, foliosis, inflatis, papy- 

 raceis vestita. Folia 7, ovato- 

 lanceolata, acuta, vix acumi- 

 nata, nervosa nervis quinque 

 conspicuis, 5-10 cm. longa, 

 3.5-5.5 cm. lata, in sicco 

 chartacea. Pedunculus gra- 

 cilis, circa 3 dm. longus. Brac- 

 tece lineari - lanceolatse, sca- 

 riosae, dependentes. Sepala 

 later alia elliptico-oblonga, ob- 



tusa, 2.5 mm. longa. Sepa- Q& ^"^ " vv fit 



him dor sale lateralibus angus- Malaxis bancanoides 



