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acumine O'l cm. longo. Labellum membrana tenui 3-nervia pecli gynostemii 

 insertum, mobile, erectum, sigmoideum, e basi contracta dentibus brevibus reversis 

 falcato-triangulis et intus callo erecto quadrate ornata dilatatum, fascia mediana 

 longittidinali convexo-incrassatum et subtus convexum, lateribus supra convexum 

 subtus concavum, 3-nervium, \ parte superiore recurva et utrinque plica parva sed 

 distincta supra convexa a parte inferiore separata, itaque subtrilobum, medio utrinque 

 minute ciliolatum, inexplanatum c. 0'15 cm. longum, explanatum spathulato- 

 obovatum, c. 0'17 cm. longum, O075 cm. latum, lobo intermedio rotundato, semi- 

 orbiculari, convexo, subtus concavo, carnosulo, eciliato, c. O05 cm. longo, 0'075 cm. 

 lato. Gynostemium cum ovario angulum obtusum faciens, curvatum, totum 

 c. 0-12 cm. longum, clinandrio concavo, filamento elongate, subulate, auriculis 

 filamentum bene superantibus, subulatis, falcato-incurvis, margine inferiore lobulo 

 subobsoleto obtuso munitis. Anthera cucullata, semiglobosa, apice producta incurva 

 truncata, connectivo gibboso-incrassato papilloso, c. 0"05 cm. alta. Pollinia in cor- 

 pusculum semiglobosum unita. Rostellum triangulum, obtusum. Stigma magnum, 

 fere tetam faciem inferiore.m gynostemii occupans, profunde excavatum, obovato- 

 triangulum. Pes gynostemii cum ovario angulum obtusum faciens, subrectus, basi 

 dorso convexus, apice vix recurvulus, oblongus, obtusus, canaliculatus, crassiusculus. 

 Ovarium 6-sulcatum, c. 0'075 cm. longum. 



Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, forest patch by ? lake, epiphyte in forest, 7000'. 

 Fl. Dec. 5662. 



Differs from B. myrtillus Schltr., probably its nearest ally, by the 

 mentum, the broader slightly three-lobed lip biauricled at the base and 

 only ciliolate in the middle beneath the semiorbicular mid-lobe, and the 

 papillate connective. 



The flowers are described as yellow ; in the dried plant the petals are 

 distinctly red. 



BULBOPHYLLUM ( MONOSEPALUM) MURICATUM J. J. S. in Bull. Dep. Agr. 



Ind. Need. n. xlv. (1911) 9; in Nova Guinea, viii. (1911) t. C, B ; 



xii. 374. Monosepalum muricatum Schltr. Orch. D. Neu-Guinea, 



(1912) 682. 



Arfak Mts., ridge running up to Angi lakes, terrestrial in mossy forest, 

 8000'. Fl. Dec. 5997. 

 Distrib. N.E. New Guinea. 

 Flowers yellow with red spots. 



BULBOPHYLLUM ( NEMATORHIZIS) OVALITEPALUM J. J. S., sp. nov. 



Eliizoma elongatum, repens, filiforme, longinode, ad nodos plerumque 1-subpseudo- 

 bulbis pauces radices emittens, pars adest 25 cm. longa, internodiis c. O5-1 cm. longis, 

 vaginis tubulosis, quarn internodia multo brevioribus. Pseudotulbi c. 1 '5-3-2 cm. 

 distantes, erecti, oblique ovoidei, sicco valde rugosi, c. 0'5-0'65 cm. longi, 1-folii. 

 Folium erectum, breviter petiolatum, oblongum ad ligulatum, obtusum, apice leviter 

 insequaliter vel subsequaliter breviter obtuse bilobulatum, basi acutum, costa media 

 subtus prominente, c. rS-3'1 cm. longa, sicco 0-45-O55 cm. lata ; petiolus cana- 

 liculatus, c. G'l-0-2 cm. longus. Inftorescentice ad basin pseudobulborum et ad 



