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acutissima crassiuscula rigidula viridia nee glauca, margini- 

 bus carindque Icevibus : basibus clilatatis incrassatis in bul- 

 bum emersum connatis, sc'apo aliquoties breviora. Scapus 

 vaginalis teres viridis solidus, fasciculis vasorum sparsis. 

 Vaginae distant es strict es foliacece, in folio! a lanceolata, 

 appressa, acuta longitudine vix ipsius vaginae productce. 

 Spica racemosa simplicissima erecta laxa sesqidpedalis. 

 Bracteae folia cecs lanceolate, patulce soepiusve divaricates, im- 

 merse nervosa?, marginibus Icevibus, infimese in scapum paulo 

 decurrentes ovarium cum pedicello suo superantes, reliquce 

 sessiles, superiores ovario breviores. Elores speciosi, e 

 torsione pedicelli baseosque ovarii vere resupinati, labello 

 antico. Perianthii foliola 3 exteriora utrinque viridia calg- 

 cina, distincta arete reflexa ovata acutiuscula immerse ner- 

 vosa, postico piano, lateralia paulo latiora lavissime con- 

 cava ; interiorum lateralia petaloidea, flava, immaculata, 

 divaricatissima, oblongo -ovata, obtusiuscula, limbo pariim 

 reflexo, disco /tine convexiusculo ; nervosa nervis lateralibus 

 alternating simplicibus bifidisque, ipsa basi alba, Labellum 

 lateralibus interiorum vix brevius, basi subtus calcarato- 

 saccatum cornu brevissimo compresso albo : lamina sessilis, 

 circumscriptione ovato -oblong a, flava basi albicante venis 

 purpureis, apice subretuso, basi alts cordata lobis posticis 

 rotundatis dimidio inferiore liberis superiore cum basi 

 columnoe cohcerentibus suturis manifestis, lateribus subpa- 

 ' allelo-reflexis plicatis plicis paulo tantilm elevatis obtusis 

 sulcis inter sticialibus angustis : disco co?ivexo axi gibbo- 

 svusculo. Columna proportionata semiteres e basi alba 

 pallide virens, aptera apice edentulo postice rotundato. 

 Anthera terminalis mobilis decidua, in expanso flore apicem 

 antice declivem columna operiens, didyma, dorso incrassato 

 dilute viridi apice retuso, bilocularis loculis approximatis 

 septulo partiali incompleto contrario in latere exteriore 

 instructis. Massse pollinis in singulo loculo singula, in 

 gemma florali juniori minutissime granuloses, in expanso 

 tore cereacece ovatos, post imprcsgnationcm in apice obliquo 

 columnce (clinandrio) inverses, postice (respect u anther 02 

 antice) instructs lobulo minore operiente majoris cavitatem 

 illitam materia viscidd elasticd flavescenti processus cujus 



