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742 ; J. J. Smith Orch. Java 227 ; not E. macrorhizon Hooker 

 f. Fl. Br. Ind. 6: 7 (1890). — Graphorchis macrorhiza Kuntze 

 Rev. Gen. PL pt. 2, 662 (1891). 



" Bhizoma subterraneum, tuberosum, difforme, crassitie pugni 

 mediocris, terrse oblique immersum, obsolete annulatum, hie illic 

 fibras radicales crassas simplices varie tortuosas albidas exserens. 

 Scapi vulgo geminati e collo rhizomatis laterali recte ascendentes, 

 teretes, %-2 ped. alti, glabri, in basi crassiore squamis imbricatis 

 lato-ovatis emarcidis integerrimis v. fisis pallescentibus membrana- 

 ceis striatis vestiti, inferne digiti parvi crassitie et pallide virentes, 

 superne sensim magis attenuati et in purpurascentem vergentes, 

 tota longitudine squamis alternis distantibus ovatis amplexicauli- 

 bus magis vegetis et purpurascentibus obsessi. Flores in apice 

 scapi circiter spithameo attenuato recto racemosi, vagi, pollicares, 

 patentes v. cernui, f usco-purpurei, glabri, unibracteati ; bracteis 

 subulato-linearibus, acuminatis, patentissimis, coloratis, ovarium 

 longitudine superantibus. Perigonii phylla oblongo-lanceolata, 

 insequalia, obsolete nervoso-striolata, nervis partim furcatis v. di- 

 chotomis ; exteriora tria magis acuminata, quorum lateralia duo 

 basi decli\4 g} T nostemii adnata paulo majora magisque patentia in 

 alabastris labellum amplectuntur ; interiora duo minora textura 

 tenuiore, spathulato-oblonga, acuta, cum exteriore dorsali erecto- 

 conniventia. Labellum torsione ovarii anticum, longitudine phyl- 

 lorum perigonii interiorum, gynostemio parallelum et cum basi ejus 

 brevi producta in saccum obtusum unitum, concavum, nervoso-stria- 

 tum, basi virens, colore purpureo limbum versus admixto, intus 

 margine medioque albido-limitatum, in axe lineiis elevatis papillulis 

 conspersis, quarum duae deorsum in medio labelli in gibberes duos 

 carnosos complanatos protuberant ; limbus erectus, breviter trilo- 

 bus, lobo medio porrectiore, subacuto, concavo, lobis lateralibus 

 textura tenuiore rotundatis. Gynostemium erectum, leniter incur- 

 vum, semiteres, anguste marginatum, dorso ad apicem super cavi- 

 tatem androclinii insigniter porrectum s. in stipitem brevem latum 

 incurvum protensum, pallide virens, glabrum. Anthera terminalis, 

 reclinata, subdidyma, postice per cristam obtusam prominentem 



