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Pollinia 8 (4-4) libera, sphaerica ; caudicida lineari, medio bif urea ; 

 glandula parva, rotundata. Herba parva, epiphyta, caulescens, 

 caespitosa ; foliis distichis, subcylindricis, acutis ; racemis axilla- 

 ribus, paucifloris ; floribus minutis, pallide viridibus. 0. parvula, 

 Thw. — C. P. 3072." — Thwaites, I. c. 



Stems 5-10 cm. high, erect or ascending, somewhat zigzag 

 when naked. Leaves distichous, about 5 mm. apart on the stem, 

 fusiform, 2 cm. long, 2 mm. from mid-vein to margin, acute, 

 rather loosely sheathing at base. Peduncles from the axils of the 

 uppermost leaves, ± 1 cm. long, bearing a loose spike of minute 

 flowers and provided with about 2 tubular bracts which termi- 

 nate in long, free, slender tips 2 mm. long. Floral bracts longer 

 than the ovary, often exceeding the flowers, 2.5 mm. long, strongly 

 concave at base, produced into a slender, subulate tip. Sepals 

 broadly ovate, rather fleshy, 1.5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide. Petals 

 roundish, about 1 mm. long. Labellum cymbiform, fleshy, elliptic- 

 obtuse, 1 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide. 



Epiphytic on mossy branch, rather common, Mt. Apo, Prov. 

 Davao, Mindanao, October 23, 1904, E. B. Copeland (no. 1427) ; 

 alt. 600 ft., April 22, 1904, E. B. Copeland (no. 1124). 



My material has been compared with the Scortechini specimen 

 (no. 1432) in the Kew herbarium and with Thwaites's Octarrhena 

 parvida, marked C. P. 3072 in the herbarium of the British 

 Museum. 



Ceylon. 



P. PROREPENS Reichb. f. Otia bot. Hamb. 54 (1878) in syn. 

 and Xen. Orch. 3: 31, in syn. ; Ames Philipp. Journ. Sci. (Bot.) 

 2 : 332 (1907). — Eria prorepens Reichb. f. Otia bot. Hamb. I. c. 

 and Xen. Orch. I. c. 



" Rhizomate repente, foliis solitariis cuneato ligulatis apice 

 inaequaliter bilobulis, pedunculis paulo exsertis seu folia sequan- 

 tibus, bracteis triangulosetaceis ovariis pedicellatis subaequalibus, 



