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apice dilatata circ. 3|- mm. lata uuda, basi iu meutum 2} cm. lougum producta, 

 stigmate triangulari. Kostellura triangulare, latere cHuaudrii ultra iusertionem 

 antherarum producto. Authera ovata 2-locularis cum appeudice 4 mm. longa, 

 appendice connectivi antice producto, sessiUs dorso 2-cucuIlata. 



Hab. Formosa : loco nou indicato : cult. in seminario, Taihoku. 



Near Tainia cordi/dia Hook. f. ; but dilfers by the mucli broador sepals, 

 imguiculate lips, and mucli narrovrer lanceolate leaves. 



It is with some hesitation that I have referred this plaut to Tainia. It 

 bears some resemblance to Tainia and Acanthephij^jiiv.m in its terrestrial 

 Jiabit, large membraneous pUcate petiolate leaves, few-large-flowered short 

 lateral racemes, aud in having lateral sepals adnating to the foot of 

 the column, erect petals, footed column and 8 poUinia. Besides, it 

 resembles the former more afiu-matively by the long slender column with 

 M'ings towards tlie apex and sohtary leaves ; while its affiuity with the latter 

 is more emphasized by the short lateral sheathed raceme, lateral sepals 

 adnating to the long foot of the column to form a large pouch-hke spm-r- 

 ed meutum, mobile small stipitate lips with broad iucm'ved lateral lobes 

 aud fi small tiiangular termiual lobe, and loug footed columu. But it differs 

 from Taiiua ou oue haud by the short few flowered sheathed raceme, lateral 

 sepals adnating to the long foot of tlie columu to form a large pouch-like 

 spmTed mentum, mobile small stalked hp with broad incmxed lateral lobes 

 and a smaU triangular terminal lobe, and by long footed colimin ; while on 

 tlie other it is distinguishable from Acanthepluppiiim by the long sleuder 

 columu winged towards the apex, solitary leaves, not fleshy flowers, and 

 free sepals. Upon considering aU the characters above mentioned, I am very 

 much incUned to regard the plant as representing a new genus, Tainiopsis, 

 just intermediate between the two named genera. What is rejected from one 

 genus is accepted by the other, and vice versa. The two {Tainia and 

 Acannuephippium) may be imited to oue and the same genus, when the characters 

 which separate each other are connected by the oue represeuted by this new 

 orchid ; or the three may be regarded as distiuct. In my opinion, however, 

 the uew genus Tainiopsis should be regarded as a vaHd one, so long as 

 the two [Tainia aud Acanthephippium) shoiUd staud as distinct ones. 



