TWO NEW SPECIES OF MALAXIS FROM HAITI 



Malaxis domingensis Ames sp, nov. AfF. M. spicatae. Radi- 

 ces fibratae, elongatae. Caulis brevis, basi tumidus, bifoliatus, 

 foliis alternis, approximatis. Folia chartacea, inaequalia, elliptico- 

 ovata vel elliptico-lanceolata, acuta vel subobtusa. Pedunculus 

 elongatus, usque ad racemum nudus. Racemus elongatus. Pedi- 

 celli graciles. Flores mediocres. Sepala lateralia elliptica, obtusa, 

 trinervia. Sepalum dorsale simile, ovato-ellipticum, obtusum. 

 Petala linearia, obtusa. Labellum subhastatum, lobis auriculatis 

 obtusis, apice in lobum brevem abrupte contractum, margine 

 conspicue ciliolato. Columna minuta. 



Plant terrestrial, 24.5 cm. tall, slender, in habit resembling 

 Malaocis spicata Sw. Roots fibrous, elongated. Stems bifoliate, 

 tumid at the base, 4.5 cm. to the base of the lamina of the up- 

 permost leaf, sheathed with two ample greenish bracts. Leaves 

 alternate, dissimilar; the lowermost one elliptic-ovate, 4.5 cm. 

 long, 3.1 cm. wide, contracted into a broad sulcate petiole that 

 sheathes the stem; the uppermost leaf ovate-lanceolate, 4 cm. 

 long, 2.2 cm. wide near the middle, at base clasping the stem. 

 Peduncle elongated, slender, including the inflorescence 19 cm. 

 long, naked up to the raceme. Raceme about 3 cm. long (elon- 

 gating as anthesis progresses), many flowered ; bracts minute, 

 hardly 2 mm. long, triangular, much shorter than the pedicels, 

 greenish. Pedicels slender, together with the ovary 1.3 cm. long. 

 Flowers small, greenish, opening in succession. Lateral sepals 

 3 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide, distinctly three-nerved in dried 

 material, ovate-elliptic, obtuse, strongly convex, obliquely de- 

 flexed. Dorsal sepal similar. Petals 2 mm. long, linear. Label- 

 lum 3 mm. long from the tip of the terminal lobe to the tip of 

 the basal auricles, about 2 mm. wide across the middle, broadly 



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