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recurva ad costas subsulcata, nervis venisque utraque paginenondistinctis, petiolis 

 hand distinctis cum pseudobulbo articulatis. Scapi vel racemi e basi pseudobulbi 

 oriundi basi sqamiferi 8 cm. longi sursum filiformes, parte florifera 2^-3 cm. longa, 

 bracteis ovatis 4^ mm. longis 4 mm. latis valde concavis subplicatis valde acutis 

 5-nerviis alabastrum floris amplectantibus caducissimis post antliesin deciduis, 

 floribus subclausis vel subpatentibus 4 mm. longis densiusculis a se 2 mm. 

 remotis, pedicellis ascendentibus 2 mm. longis, ovariis 1 mm. longis. Sepalum 

 posticum ovatum 4 mm. longum 2| mm. latum apice angulato-obtusissimum. 

 basi vix contractum 2 mm. latum planum vel leviter concavum 3-nervium, 

 nervis parallelis, margine integrum, lateralia obliqua ovata plicato-concava 

 seqmlonga cum postico, apice obtusa basi contracta 3-nervia dorso 

 manifeste ad costam carinata, carinis infra apicem acute productis. Petala 

 late oblonga vel late obovata 4 mm. longa 3 mm. lata apice triangulari-obtusa 

 basi cuneato-obtusa ad basin 1 mm. lata subplana 3-nervia, nervis parallelis. 

 Labellum valde concavum in explicate late rotundatum 3 mm. longum 4^- 

 mm. latum apice late rotundatum ad centrum breve obtuse cuspidatum, (cus- 

 pidibus triangularibus ^ mm. longis totiusque latis ad apicem obtusis), basi 

 contractum prope basin disco transverso versus marginem valido, ad centrum 

 tenui uno instructum basi ad pedem columnse affixum. Columna 2 mm. 

 longa subteres basi in pedem circ 1 mm. longum tumidum producta. Pollinia 

 4. 



HAB. Uraisha, leg. S. SASAKI, Jan., 1913. Kemarkable for its having 

 scapes arising from the very base of the 1-noded pseudobulbs. 



Calanthe K. BR. 



Galanthe arisanensis HAYATA Mater. Fl. Formos. p. 327. 



HAB. Inter Funldko-Taroyen, leg. B. HAYATA et T. ITO, Mart., 1914. 



Note : Flowers nearly white, ovary slightly purple. Capsules elongato- 

 obovoid 3^ cm. long 1 cm. broad attenuate at the base, pedicels 1 cm. 

 long. 



Galanthe brevicolumna HAYATA (Fig. 30) Mater. Fl. Formos. p. 328. 

 Caulis brevis incrassatus 1-2-foliatus. Folia sessilia oblanceolata 35 cm. longa 

 8 cm. lata apice acuta basi attenuata. Scapi aphylli vel 1-foliati vel vaginati 

 70 cm. longi validiusculi, racemis densifloratis 10 cm.-longis, bracteis ovatis 



