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SPATHOGLOTTIS Bl. 



S. CHRYSANTHA sp. nov. Aff. S. aurece. Folia linearia, 

 nervosa, acuta, usque ad 56 cm. longa et 1.5 cm. lata; folia ex- 

 emplorum depauperatorum 15 cm. 

 longa, 3 mm. lata. Scapus ligneus, 

 erectus, glaber, 3-6 dm. altus, vel 

 major, bracteis pluribus bene appres- 

 sis, obtusis, vaginantibus, tubularibus. 

 Bractece inflorescentice 1 cm. longae, 

 glabrae, eymbiformes, pedicellis gla- 

 bris breviores. Pedicellus 15 mm. 

 longus. Flores subnumerosi, speci- 

 osi, flavi, 3-4 cm. in diametro. Sepala 

 lateralia elliptico-oblonga, obtusa, 2.4 

 cm. longa, 9 mm. lata, sepalo dorsali 

 similia. Petala elliptico-oblonga, ob- 

 tusa, 2.2 cm. longa, 1—1.1 cm. lata. 

 Labellum ad basim bilobatum ; lacinisB 

 laterales lineari-oblongae, obtusse vel 

 truncato-emarginatse, 1 cm. longse, 2 

 mm. latse; lobus medius ultra lacinias 

 laterales circa 1.8 cm. longus, ad basim 

 hastatus, lineari-oblongus, prope api- 



cem dilatatus in limbo cuneato, retuso-apiculato. In disco ultra 

 lobos laterales callus crassus, erectus, glaber, bilobatus. Columna 

 gracilis, supra dilatata, 12 mm. longa. 



SPATHOGLOTTIS CHRYSANTHA 



Baguio, Prov. Benguet, May 13, 1904, R. S. Williams (no. 

 1064, in lib. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). — Baguio, Prov. Benguet, Luzon, 

 February 29, 1904, A. D. E. Elmer (no. 5779). — Benguet, A. 

 Loher (no. 535). — Mt. Mayon, Prov. Albay, Luzon, June 4, 1907, 

 E. A. Mearns (no. 2905). 



S. PLICATA Blume Bijdr. 401, t. 76 (1825) ; Lindley Orch. 

 PI. 119 and Wall. Cat. no. 3742 ; Hasskarl Tijdschr. Nat. Gesch. 



