NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
1 mm. thick, with several closely oppressed bracts. Rachis 
thickened. Bracts of the raceme rigid, about 1 mm. long, 
quaquaversal, thickened, somewhat triangular when seen 
from the side, much shorter than the pedicels. Pedicel with 
the ovary about 7 mm. long. Flowers purplish, opening in 
succession, rather fleshy. Lateral sepals 6.5-7 mm. long, 
4 mm. wide above the middle, asymmetrically elliptical or 
obovate, obtuse, somewhat concave. Dorsal sepal 7 mm. 
long, 2.5 mm. wide, oblong-elliptical, subacute, strongly 
concave or subcucullate. Petals about 6 mm. long, 2 mm. 
wide, broadened upward, subspatulate or oblong, obtuse. 
Labellum 3-lobed, calcarate; the lateral lobes 2 mm. long 
on the posterior margin, 1 mm. long on the anterior margin, 
1 mm. wide, subquadrate, truncate-obtuse, erect; middle 
lobe transversely oblong-elliptical when spread out, 1 mm. 
long, 2 mm. wide, conduplicate, with a thickened abbrevi¬ 
ated keel beneath; spur 8 mm. long, sharply curved, slightly 
dilated and infundibuliform at the throat, tubular below, 
the apical portion inflated, dorso-ventrally compressed, the 
dilated portion 2 mm. in diameter (measured transversely). 
Column 4 mm. long, arcuate, produced at base into a foot 
which is 1.25 mm. long. 
In habit similar to Sarcochilus pallidus Reichb. f., from 
which it is in part distinguished by the much smaller flowers. 
Philippines, Mindanao, Zamboanga Province, Flecha 
Point, E. D. Merrill 11640, September 30, 1922. On trees in 
primary forest. Flowers pinkish. About 10 meters altitude. 
(Type in Philip. Bur. Sci. Duplicate type in Herb. Ames 
No. 25860.) 
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