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ellipticae, acutae; bracteae comae numerosae, pleraeque fertiles elliptico- 

 lanceolatae, bursis abbreviatis, summae lineari-lanceolatae, onines acutae 

 et brevissime mucronatae, paucae steriles breviores. 



Bracteae pleraeque pallide virides, supra medium spicae pallidiores 

 albido-striatae, versus apicem albae apice viridesceute, dorso pallide purpu- 

 reo-puncticulatae, omnes utrinque cum pedunculo dense puberulae. 



Flores inter majores, valde angusti, semper parte '/s vel '/4 supra 

 bracteam émergentes, bracteolis tubum corollae superantibus involucrati. 

 Calyx tubi dimidium superans, dorso breviter incisus brevissime late denta- 

 tus. Corollae tubus gracilis, fauce infundibulari versus ostium angustata, 

 labellum obovatum in unguiculam brevem angustatum, lobo mediano semi- 

 orbiculari, bifido, sat prominente paullo deflexo. Stamlnodia obovato-oblon- 

 ga apice rotundata; stylodia parva. Filamentum vix longius quam latum. 

 Anthera elongata, calcaribus e basi lata apice valde acutis leviter curvatis, 

 patulis, loculis vix brevioribus. Corolla cremea, petala alba, labellum 

 medio luteum. 



The conical primary tuber (70X30. 80X30), which flowered lastmonsoon 

 produces now a number of rhick fleshy rhizomes (80 X 25 with 5 — 15 mm. 

 long internodes), with 4 side-branches of which the lowest lengthens itself 

 and forms a young primary tuber, whose offshoots again form a third 

 primary tuber, the youngest tuber bears fleshy swollen roots. Root tubers 

 elliptical on very long root fibres. 



The rhizomes as well as their branches always are falcate, upward 

 curved; the side branches always originate on the lower side of the 

 primary braches. 



The shoots are pale-yellow. The old rhizome is dirtj-orange externally 

 and internally (161 — 156). The old tuber (186), yellow-orange-yellow; the 

 young white offshoots internally light-orange (196 — 191). A young rhizome 

 186. The root-tubers have a grey pleroma and an orange-yellow inner 

 cortex. The fleshy roots have in the contrary an orange-yellow pleroma. 



A flowering plant with about 7 leaves had a spurious stem '/2 ^^ 

 long, 60 mm. broad at the base, 25 mm. thick. The petioles 60, 160,270 

 on one side, 100, 210 on the other side. The leaves placed in two rows 

 and pushed aside by the peduncle, measured on one side 550X220,060X230, 

 700 X 190, on the other side 600X230, 630 X 215, of which the youngest was 

 not quite grown. The young leaves are on the surface especially near the 

 top, along the veins more or less densely covered with obliquely spreading 

 hairs, which are visible by ~a 8— 16 times magnifying power, and the nar- 

 row membranous (in vivo white) edge is ciliated especially at the top. 

 Also the finely pointed acumen is ciliated. 



The rather broad projecting edge of the sheath is over a great length 

 finely and densely hairy. The broad ligula lobes are rather long ciliated. 



