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ORCHIDACEJE 



lurn ob ovate, 7.5 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, with two calli at the base, 

 apex obscurely toothed. Column rather stout, curved, with two 

 deflexed wings near the summit. Fruit a pyriform capsule 1 cm. 

 long, 5 mm. broad at the tip. 



The material on which my determination is based appears to 

 agree with H. 0. Forbes's Southeast Javan plant (no. 1153a) in 

 the herbarium of the British Museum, on which Ridley based his 

 description of Liparis Forbesii. 



Between Baguio and Sablan, Prov. Benguet, northern Luzon, 

 November 19, 1901, R. S. Williams (no. 1930), specimen in 

 fruit. — Fl. reddish brown, Baguio, Prov. Benguet, northern 

 Luzon, October 9, 1904, B. S. Williams (no. 1941). — Camp 

 Keithley, Lake Lanao, Mindanao, March, 1906, Mary Strong 

 Clemens (no. 446). 



Java. 



C. (§ Distichse) GRACILIS sp. nov. Aff. C. distichce Pfitz. 



Pseudobulbi ± 3 cm. longi, pyriformes, supra in caules teretes 



contracti, ± 1 cm. distantes in 

 rhizomate gracili repenti. Folia 

 linearia, ± 12 cm. longa, 3.5-5 

 mm. lata, acuta, pedunculo gracili 

 bialato breviora. Bractea inflo- 

 rescentiaz distichae, approximatse, 

 4-5 mm. longae, acuta?. Sepala 

 later alia oblonga, lanceolata, 

 acuta, 4.5 mm. longa, 2 mm. 

 lata. Sepalum dorsale simile, 5 

 mm. longum, 1.5 mm. latum. Pe~ 

 tola linearia, 5.5 mm. longa, 0.5 

 mm. lata. Ldbellum 5.5 mm. 

 longum, prope apicem 5 mm. 

 latum, cuneato-flabellate, retuso- 



apiculatum, callo ad basim. Columna arcuata, ex comparatione 



crassa. 



Cestichis gracilis 



