86 ORCHIDEJE. 



Labelluin ovato-lanceolatuni circ. 6 mm. longum erectuni glabrum ventricoso- 

 calearatum, lamina lanceolata 4 mm. longa. Coluinna 2mm. longa, rostello 

 obliquissimo triangulari-lanccolato apice 2-fido ; anthera dorsalis c basi columnse 

 oriunda lanceolata apice acuminata 3 mm. longa mm. lata. Pollinia lineari- 

 lanceolata 2 mm. longa apice attenuata ad caudicnlam 2 mm. longain abeuntia ; 

 glandula lineari-oblonga 1 mm. longa. Tropidia angidata HAYATA in MATSUM. 

 et HAYATA Enum. PI. Formos. p. 414 (non BLUME). 



HAB. Ako: Datestu, leg. T. SOMA, Juli. 1912. 



Near Tropidia angulata BLUME (Kixo et PANTLIXG Orchid, t. 365), 

 but distinguishable from it in having much inflated lips and sepals. 



Spiranthes L. C. RICH. 



Spiranthes australis LINDL. var. suishaensis HAYATA n. v. 

 Terrestris. Radices incrassatse e basi caulis 3-4 oriundEe tcretes 5 cm. longse 

 3 mm. crassse. Caulis 30-50 cm. altus glaber teres basi foliis 2-3 medio 

 squamis 12 instructus sursnm ad spicam 10-20 cm. longani abeuns simplex hand 

 ramosus. Folia inferiora majora oblanccolato-linearia 12-1 5 cm. longa 5 7 mm. 

 lata apice obtusa vel acuta basi gradatim attenuata ad vaginam abeuntia, 

 vaginis 1-6 cm. longis, toto glaberrima menibranacea, nervis lateralibus utroque 

 latere costse 3, venulis obliquis reticulatis. Spicse 10-20 cm. longae simplices. 

 Flores perfecte albi approximatim secundeque dispositi, bracteis post antliesiii 

 auctis knceolatis. Ovariuni obovoideuui plus minus obliquum 2-3 mm. longum 

 glabrum vel plus minus hirsutum. Rhachis tortuosa minute hirsuta, bracteis 

 ovatis 56 mm. longis 2-3 mm. latis concavis basin floruni amplectantibus 

 apice longe acuminato-cuspidatis glabris. Segmenta toto conniventia toto alba. 

 Sepala trinervia ; posticum lineare 5 mm. longum 1| mm. latuui apice 

 obtusurn basi hand contractum glabrum ; lateralia quam postico angustiora apice 

 acuminato-obtusa 5 mm. longa 1 mm. lata. Petala quani sepalum tenuiora 5mm. 

 longa 1 mm. lata apice obtusissima 1-nervia. Labellum in anibitu oblonguni 

 4-5 mm. longum 2 mm. latum apice obtusissimuni basi erectuni concavum 

 columnam amplectans apice patens margine basi usque ad medium integrum 

 medio sursum valde crispatum erosurn ad paginam medio sursum breve 

 crispato-hirsutum basi leviter gibbosum, gibbis intus protuberantibus duobus 

 instructis. Columna 1 mm, longa. 



