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short foot of the column. Petals a little shorter and somewhat 

 broader than the sepals, 2— 2§ mm. long, linear-lanceolate, hardly 

 falcate, acute or sometimes obtuse. Labellum slightly shorter 

 than the perianth, affixed to the end of the basal foot of the 

 column, yellow above and white below, submaculato-striate with 

 purple colour on sides internally, glabrous, erect, about 8—9 mm. 

 long, 6—7 mm. broad, broadly elliptical-obovate, obtuso-cuneate 

 with entire .margins towards the base, but 3-lobed with obtuse 

 sinuses above, the lateral lobes far forwards, embracing the 

 column, small and short, ovate or ova to-subulate, acutish or 

 obtuse, the midlobe much larger and broader, broadly retuse 

 with the entire or obscurely crenate and sometimes obscurely 

 crispate margin ; upper surface (of the disk and midlobe) longi- 

 tudinally 3-ridged, ridges towards the centre, angustate, the 

 side ones slightly curved, stronger, lamellate in the disk, the 

 middle one very slightly exceeding beyond the others at the 

 apical end ; nerves 4, the median 3 with ridges, each lateral one 

 with branches in the outside above. Mentum very short, 

 obtuse. Colume longish, shorter than and parallel to the 

 labellum, about | as long as the labellum, about 6-7 mm. long, 

 arcuately incurved, subtrigono-semiterete, plane and scarcely 

 concaved in front, stigmatiferous under the top, white, but often 

 very slightly yellowish-viridescent above, with a short and com- 

 pressed foot at the base, subalate on both sides towards the 

 top ; clinandrium Mtry deeply concave, with nearly entire erect 

 margin ; rostellum short and broad, obtuse. Anther terminal, 

 operculate, depressed-convex, rounded, distinctly 2-celled, yellow- 

 ish, about 1J mm. across, furnished with distant obtuse short- 

 conical purple two bosses towards the front. Pollinia waxy, 

 yellow, 8, 4 in pair, cohering in fours to a granular viscous 

 membrane below, unecpjel and orbicular oval and ovate in form, 

 parallel and compressed. Ovary subobconico-obling, glabrous, 

 2|—3 mm. long, 3-ribbed, virid-purpurascent ; pedicel curved, 

 scarcely or rather much longer (attaining about 8 mm. long) 

 than the ovary. 



Nom. Jap. Hime-tokenran. 



Hab. Liukiu : Kunchan ( Y. Tashiro ! herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. 



