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‘almost simple, the sidebranches (secundary peduncles) being 
very short or wanting and thus resembling that of G. awrantiaca, 
Hasseltiana etc. In G. propinqua, however, the raceme is nutant, 
the labellum linear oblong, rather short with an emarginate apex 
and diwaricate lobes; and the very long divaricate staminodes of 
G. paucibracteata are not mentioned for G. propinqua. Evidently 
the two species are not to be confused. 
Comparing G. paucibracteata to G. deliana we find the following 
differences: The leaves: elliptic, subacuminate acute, subsessile, 
concolorous in G. deliana, lanceolate attenuate at the top ending 
in a capillaceous point, sessile, purpurascent at the lower side; 
peduncular bracts 2 or three only, all as well as the flowerbracts 
very acutely acuminate in G. paucibracteata, numerous, subacute 
in G. deliana. 
In both species the normally flowering specimens seem to 
bear no bulbils in the bracts. In other specimens all bracts on 
the peduncle as well as on the proper raceme are bearing in 
their axil a sessile bulbil, and in such one I either found no 
flowers at all or a few flowers on divaricate sidebranches at 
the top of the panicle. 
_ Neither species ever produced fruits in our garden-cultures. 
