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* Cryptostylis javanicaj. J. S n. sp. — C. arachnites}.}. S. (non HASSK.) 

 in Fl. Buit. VI, Orch. (1905), 59 (excl. syn.); Atlas Fig. XXXVII. 



Rhizoma breve, verticale, radicibus crassis, villosis. Folia pauca, radicalia, 

 erecta, petiolata, oblique elliptica vel plus minusve ovata, acute acuminata, 

 basi breviter in petiolum contracta, costa media supra canaliculata subtus 

 valde carinata, curvinervia, nervis majoribus supra leviter canaliculatis subtus 

 vix prominulis c. 2--3 utrinque, venis transversis horizontalibus plerumque 

 continuis reticulato-venosa, herbacea, nitidule viridia cum venis vix obscu- 

 rioribus, subtus pallidiora, c 14--20 cm. longa, 5 8-8.2 cm. lata; petiolus antice 

 canaliculatus, dilute viridis, plus minusve dense sordide atroviolacee maculatus 

 etpunctatus, c. 8 -12 cm. longus, initio inferne vaginis obtectus. Inflorescentia 

 erecta, elongata, laxe multiflora, pedunculo tereti, pallide viridi, plus 

 minusve dense atroviolacee striato-punctato, c. 24-32 cm. longo, inferne 

 0.375-0,4 cm. diam., vaginulis c. 5 adpressis tubulosis acutis minus dense 

 punctatis ad c. 3.5 cm. Iongis donato, rachide sulcis 2 a pulvinis decur- 

 rentibus instructa, colore pedunculi, ad c. 30 cm. longa. Hracteae ovario 

 adpressae, concavae, ovato-oblongae, acute acuminatae ,basi latae, onerviae, 

 pallide virides, sparse sordide purpureo-punctatae, c.1.8 cm, longae, 0.7 cm. 

 latae. Flores pulvinis inserti, erecti, majusculi, c 3.7 cm longi et lati, sepalis 

 petalisque marginibus involutis subulatis, dilute viridibus. Sepalum dorsale 

 deorsum spectans, explanatum lineare, apiculato-acuminatum, 3nervium, c. 1.5 

 --18 cm longum, 0.25 -0.3 cm. latum. Sepala lateralia intermedio similia, 

 divaricata. Petala inier sepala patentia, multo minora, explanata linearia ad 

 lanceolato4inearia, a:ute acuminata, 1 nervia, c. 0 9--1 .1 cm. longa, 0.15- 0.18 

 cm lata. LabellLim erectum, ambitu plus minusve ovato-rhombeum, marginibus 

 re:urvis convexum, apice antice canaliculatum, supra cucullam recurvum, 

 basi medio breviter cuculiato-excavatum, cuculla paulo a latere compressa, 

 dorso basi rotundata, antice visa triangula, semipellucide virescenti-flava, 

 cuculla excepta antice velutinum, costa media et nervis sequentibus dorso 

 sulcatis, ochrascens, inferne pIHs fusco-purpurascens, superne maculis 

 orbicularibtis atrofusco-purpureis marginalibus et plus minusve longitudina- 

 liter seriatis ornatum, 5nervium, explanatum totum c. 1.9 cm. longum, supra 

 hypochylium transverse oblongum c. 0.45 cm. longum 0 9-1 cm. latum 

 leviter constrictum, epichylio (lobo intermedio) ovato, acuto vel leviter 

 acuminato, c. 1.45 cm. longo, 1-1.1 cm. lato. Gynostemium brevissimum, 

 obtusangule recurvum, albidum, clinandrio lato, utrinque plus minusve 

 crenato, dorso convexo, verruculoso, auriculis triangul is. Anthera cucullata, 

 evata, bas: bilobuh, connectivo convexo-incrassato, apice obtuse conico- 

 producto, papilloso, pallide flavescens, c. 0.24 cm. longa. Pollinia 2, bipar- 

 tita, oblique oblongo-pyriformia, flava, cum glandula oibiculari fusca. 

 Rostelluni porrectum, bidentatum. Stigma prominens, cum rostello subreni- 

 forme. Ovarium erectum, osulcatum, viride, c. 1.4-1.7 cm. longum, pedi- 

 cello brevissimo. 



Java: Bauten, Hügel bei Pasaoeran, in 300 m ü. d, M., im Urwalde. 

 (C. A. Backer u. 7157, bl. im März 1914). 



