THE BOTANICAL MAGAGINR [V oi. xxi. No. m. 



odoriferous, purpurascent ; peduncle exceeding the leaves, erect, 

 gracile, puberulous with minute patent hairs, or glabrous, about 

 5-11 cm. long, bracteolate above the middle; bracteoles 2, erect 

 and adpressed, linear, acuminate, membranaceous, glandular- 

 margined at the base, 4-7 mm. long. Sepals subulato-lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, entire, glabrous, viridescent but scarious on 

 margins, trinerved, about 7-8 J mm. long, the inferior 2 a little 

 broader; basal auricles short, glabrous, truncate or truncato-bifid, 

 but broadly ovate oval or elliptical in those of the lateral ones, 

 but semiorbiculate or ovato-semiorbiculate in that of the superior 

 one. Petals erect-patent ; the superior 2 orbicular, rounded at 

 the apex, cuneately long-attenuated below, 9-12 mm. long, 

 5— 8mm. broad; lateral 2 elliptical, rounded at the apex, cuneatly 

 attenuated below, somewhat longer than the superior ones, 

 beardless, about 11— 14mm. long, 5— 8mm. wide; the inferior 

 one equal to the lateral ones in length, elliptical- obovate, retuso- 

 emarginate at the apex, purple above, white and distinctly 

 purple-striped below, about 10— 14mm. long, 5j— 8mm. broad; 

 calcar slightly shorter than the sepals, pointed obliquely upward, 

 C3 T lindrico-oblong, slightly curved upward, obtuse at the apex, 

 compressed laterally, 6— 7mm. long. Anthers 3-3Jmm. long; 

 connective-tip ovato-oval, rounded or obtuse at the apex, 

 shorter than the anther-cells; appendages linear or angustato- 

 linear, slightly curved, 5-7 mm. long. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, 

 about 2mm. long; style exserted, longer than the ovary, straight, 

 enlarged above, about 3mm. long; stigma compressed laterally, 

 shortly beaked, rounded at the upper corner. Flowers April. 



Xom. Jap. Nioi-tachitsuhosumire. 



Hah. Japan. 



This differs from the type, by not having elongated leaves. 



Cleisostoma ionosmum Lindl. Bot. Regist. (1847) tab. 

 41 ; Walp. Ann. I. p. 791 ; Ridley in Philip. Journ. Sc. I. Suppl. 

 ( L906) p. 39. 



Sarcochilus ionosmus Benth. et Hook. hi. Gen. PL III. p. 575. 



forma lutschuense Makino. 



