214 ORCHIDACEM 



" Planta ut videtur super arbores crescens. Radices fascicu- 

 latse filiformes. Caulis brevissimus subnullus. Folia disticha, 

 amplexicaulia, basi imbricata; vagina laxa, patente, carinata, limbo 

 subconforini, sed transverse articulata ; lamina lineari-oblonga, 

 membranacea, nervis parallelis, medio plicata, facile in sicco deci- 

 dente. Flores spicati minimi, spicis e foliorum inferiorum axilla 

 nascentibus, scapo filiformi gracili folia sequante, squamis duobus 

 distantibus prsedito. Spica brevis, floribus approximates, erectis, 

 imbricatis, sessilibus, bracteis ovatis acutis basi stipatis. Ovarium 

 obconicum, laeve, non contortum. Sepala sequalia, erecta, subcon- 

 niventia, ovato-triangularia, acuta, florem regularem simulantia. 

 Petala sepalis sequalia, angustiora, ovato-lanceolata. Labellum 

 posticum, ovatum, basi constrictum, obtusum, membranaceo-spon- 

 giosum, subtrinerve. Gynostemium brevissimum, quadrangulare 

 superne truncatum, planum vel concaviusculum, mucosum, super- 

 ficiem stigmaticam efformans, ad latera laminis membranaceis, 

 erectis, subquadratis, ornatum (staminodiis?), antice (latere labello 

 opposito) antheram subsessilem sustinens. Anther a erecta, mem- 

 branacea, pedicello brevi compresso suffulta, superne in acumina 

 triangulari acuto desinens, loculis membranaceis, discretis, paral- 

 lelis, rimis longitudinalibus debiscentibus. Pollinia in quolibet 

 loculo tria inaBqualia (an quatuor altera minimo vix distincto) ex 

 parte superiori luculi subpendentia, ibique agglutinata materia 

 granulosa, in lineam opacam gramosam usque ad apicem antherae 

 desinente. Loc. : Off ack, dans l'ile Waigiou." — Brogniart, I. c. 



Leaves up to 1 dm. long, ± 1 cm. wide. Scape about 1 dm. 

 long, slender, bearing 2 inflated, acuminate, acute bracts. Floral 

 bracts decurved. Inflorescence about 2 cm. long. Flowers 2.6 

 mm. long. 



Epiphyte, alt. 200 ft., Prov. Tayabas (Infanta), Luzon, Sep- 

 tember 11, 1904, H. N. Whitford (no. 809). 



Cochin China, Malay Peninsula, Khio, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, 

 Waigiou. 



