NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
ex axillis vaginamm orientes, folia aequantes vel sub- 
aequantes, distichiflori, rachide glanduloso-scabridula. 
Flores albidi, breviter pedicellati. Bracteae inllorescentiae 
pedicellos excedentes, triangulares, concavae, acuminatae, 
acutae, rigidae. Sepala petalaque conniventia. Sepala 
lateralia usque ad basim libera, longe triangularia, acuta, 
uninervia, extus leviter carinata per medium, membranacea, 
labello longiora. Sepalum dorsale triangulare, subacutum, 
uninervium. Petala lineari-oblonga, acuta, uninervia. 
Labellum triangulari-trulliforme, acutum, basi concavum in 
calcar leviter sigmoideum productum. Calcar sepalis 
longius, teres, utrinque attenuatum, valde elongatum, vix 
scrotiforme, apice obtusum. Columna valde abbreviata. 
Anthera permagna. Capsula ellipsoidea, sexangularis, sparse 
glandulosa. 
Roots fibrous, up to 15 cm. long, spreading, longi¬ 
tudinally sulcate. Stems 8 mm. long, complanate, concealed 
by the sheathing imbricating bases of the leaves, erect or 
ascending. Leaves about seven, distichous, up to 2.7 cm. 
long, 3.5-5 mm. wide, broadest above the middle, oblong, 
ligulate, articulated with a conduplicate base which is 
2.5 mm. long, unequally bilobed at the tip, mid-vein promi¬ 
nent beneath. Peduncles with the raceme 1.4-2.7 cm. long, 
arising from the axil of the leaf-sheath. Raceme 1-2 cm. 
long. Bracts of the inflorescence 1.75 mm. long, exceeding 
the pedicels of the flowers, rigid, triangular, acute, concave, 
blowers about ten, white, distichous, 3 mm. apart on the 
glandular-scabridulous rachis. Lateral sepals 2 mm. long, 
about 1 mm. wide at the base, triangular, acute, 1-nerved, 
carinate along the middle on the outer surface, connivent. 
Dorsal sepal 2 mm. long, triangular, subacute, 1-nerved. 
Petals 1.75 mm. long, linear-oblong, 1-nerved, acute, mem¬ 
branaceous, parallel with the upper sepal. Labellum hardly 
2 mm. long, .75 mm. wide near the base, triangular-trulliform 
or lanceolate, acute, membranaceous, produced at base into 
a slender spur, ecallose. Spur 3 mm. long, terete, lightly sig¬ 
moid, attenuated at the ends, obtuse, more or less porrect. 
Column stout, abbreviated. Capsule 5 mm. long, ellipsoidal, 
6-angled, sparsely glandulose. 
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