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New or Little Known Plants of Japan. 

expanded below into a sheath closely adhering to the stem, dark-green on the upper, paler on the under 
surface, 3—5 inches long, 8—12 lines broad. Racemes arcuate, towards the apex of the stem, breaking 
through the back of the leaf-sheaths and scales, slightly puberulent, 5—10 inches long; bracts ovate, 
pale greenish-yellow, 5 lines long, 23 lines broad. Flowers cream-colored. Sepals suberect, very slightly 
connate at the base, subequal ; the dorsal linear-oblong or lanceolate, acutish, 6 lines long, 13 lines broad; 
the lateral somewhat falcate, otherwise similar to the dorsal. Petals suberect, lanceolate, or oblanceolate, 
acutish, 5 lines long, 13 lines broad. Labellum ovate, dark-purple towards the base, somewhat recurved, 
undulate at the margin, with two short longitudinal ridges on the upper surface, 2 lines long, 1 line 
broad. Column short, with the base protruded in front. Anther operculate, 2-celled, each cell imper- 
fectly 4-locellate, pollinia 8, in 2 clusters, 4 in each cell, obovate. Ovary slender, somewhat arcuate, 
puberulent, 3—4 lines long. 
Living specimens of this plant were collected by Mr. Yasusada Tashiro in 1887 at Nishi-omoteshima 
in Luchu, and have been since cultivated in the Botanic Garden of the Imperial University, where they 
flower in the months of September and October. 
In answer to my inquiry in regard to this plant Mr. W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, Director of the Royal 

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