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STETIS micranrna. 
Small-flowered Stetis. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.—Nar. Orv. ORCHIDE #4. 
Gen. Cuar.—Labellum petalis interioribus ramis subfornicatis conforme. 
Petala 3 exteriora basi connata. Masse pollinis due.—Br. 
Stetis micrantha ; caule elongato unifolio, folio lato-lanceolato, floribus 
spicatis bifariam insertis subsecundis acute-trigonis. 
S. micrantha, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. p. 1553.—Sw. De Orchid. p. 98.—Smitn, 
Exot. Fl. p.'75.—Witip. Sp. Pl. v. iv. p. 139.—Br. in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 
v. 5. p. 210. 
Epidendrum micranthum, Sw. Prodr. p. 125. 
Parasitic. Roots much branched, throwing up several stems, which are 
naked, or only invested with the remains of one or two sheathing mem- 
branes, to the height of 4-5 inches, there terminated by an oblongo- 
lanceolate, obtuse, fleshy leaf, about 4 inches in length, which is joint- 
ed, as it were, upon the top of the stalk. 
From the somewhat sheathing base of this leaf, arises the pedunculated 
simple spike, which is about 5 inches long, having flowers from the top 
to vgithin an inch of the base, each subtended by a small lanceolate 
bractea. 
The flowers are very small, springing in regular alternation from two oppo- 
site sides of the stem, but all pointing one way; when unexpanded form- 
ing an exactly trigonal bud. When the outer petals are closed, the 
flowers incline, and the lip is downwards; when expanded, the flowers 
raise themselves, become slightly untwisted, and the lip is uppermost. 
The 3 outer segments of the perianth are broadly ovato-cordate, plane, or 
very slightly concave, united at the base, pale green, faintly but coarse- 
ly reticulated, with a slightly elevated line down the centre of the back, 
but by no means such as to make the flower, when in bud, appear hexa- 
astern aes including the lip, are also exactly alike in 
shape and size, very small, deep purple, broadly ovate, truncate, deeply 
ispherical, 
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