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Reichb. f. Bonpl. 5: 37 (1857). — T.pygm&a Hance Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. 13: 127 (1873) and Bentham Fl. Hongkong. Suppl. 39; 

 not Lindl. — T. hongkongensis Rolfe Kew Bull. 1896, p. 199 and 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. 36: 39 (1903). 



" Pseudobidbis varie depressis mono- v. diphyllis ; jloribus in 

 spicam ovoideam deinde elongatam congestis; labello ovato-ob- 

 longo obtusiusculo." — Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat., I. c. 



Leaves linear-oblong, longer than the flower shoot, 5.5-15 cm. 

 long, 9-10 mm. wide. Flower shoot slender, up to 9 cm. long. 

 Bracts strongly inflated, drawn out to a slender, sharp point. 

 Floral bracts strongly deflexed, acute, about 2 mm. long. Sjnke 

 dense, 1-3.5 cm. long. Lateral sepals oblong, prominently winged 

 along the median line, 3 mm. long. Upper sepal triangular, 

 1-nerved. Petals 2 mm. long, 1-nerved, elliptic-oblong, obtuse. 

 Labellum 2 mm. long, narrowed from the middle, beyond the 

 suborbicular base, into an oblong-obtuse tip. 



Epiphyte, fls. white, alt. 700 ft., San Ramon, Prov. Zamboanga, 

 Mindanao, February 19, 1905, E. B. Copeland (no. 1659). This 

 agrees in all essentials with no. 2062 of Cuming's Philippine 

 plants labelled Thelasis triptera, as represented at Kew and in 

 the herbarium of the British Museum. 



Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Hongkong, Admiralty 

 Islands. 



T. MICRANTHA (Brogn.) J.J. Smith Orch. Java 495 (1905). 



— Oxyanthera micrantha Brogn. in Duperr. Voy. Coq. Bot. 198, 

 t. 37, B (1829) ; Schlechter Mem. Herb. Boiss. no. 21, 77 (1900). 



— Thelasis contractu Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 2 : 187 

 (1852), Fl. Java Orch. 21 (Orch. Arch. Ind. 24), t. 5, B ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 : 701. — T. carinata Reichb. f. Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 30 : 136 (1874), not Bl. — T. decurva Hooker f. Fl. Br. Ind. 6 : 

 87 (1890) and Ic. PI. t. 2157. — Oxyanthera decurva Hooker Ic. 

 PI. sub t. 2157(1893); Ridley Journ. Linn. Soc. 32: 394 (1896). 



