NKW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
ductis. Discus prope columnam excavatus, prope medium 
labelli callo crescentiformi ornatus. Columna abbreviata 
superne utrinque obtuse alata. 
A terrestrial herb up to 50 cm. tall when measured to 
the tip of the slender raceme. Roots coarsely fibrous, 
conspicuously villose. Stems erect, 11-14 cm. long to the 
base of the lowermost leaf, concealed by four or more loosely 
oppressed subimbricating scarious sheaths 1-4 cm. long. 
Leaves two to three or probably more, contracted at 
base, the chartaceous lamina 12-15 cm. long, up to 6.7 cm. 
wide, elliptical, acuminate, acute, conspicuously nervose 
when dry; petiole more or less canaliculate, the basal por¬ 
tion sheathing the stem. Peduncle with the slender raceme 
up to 30 cm. or more long, slender, erect, provided with a 
few scattered linear scarious spreading or dependent bracts. 
Raceme about 12 cm. long, scarcely 5 mm. in diameter, 
many-flowered. Rracts of the raceme about 4 mm. long, 
linear, spreading or dependent, scarious, equaling or ex¬ 
ceeding the ovary. Pedicel with the ovary 3-4 mm. long, 
4-winged, smooth. Flowers purplish. Lateral sepals 2.5- 
2.75 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, elliptical, obtuse, margin 
slightly rolled back. Dorsal sepal about 3 mm. long, 1 mm. 
wide, oblong-elliptical, obtuse, lightly convex. Petals 
2.5 mm. long, about .5 mm. wide, linear, obtuse, margin 
strongly revolute. Labellum including the auricles about 
4 mm. long, 6-7-lobulate in front; lateral lobules porrect, 
including the auriculate base 2.5 mm. long, the frontal free 
portion very short, triangular; the auriculate base 1.25 
mm. long, obtusely triangular, continued backward behind 
the column; central lobule^ up to 1 mm. long. Disc strongly 
concave in front of the column, the depression margined in 
front with a fleshy crescent-shaped callus. Column 1 mm. 
long, with ablunterectwing at the summit on each side. [Fig. 7.] 
Allied to Malaxis Wenzelii Ames, from which it differs 
in the segments of the mid-lobe of the labellum, in the 
dimensions of the petals and in the leaves. 
Philippines, Mindanao, Agusan Province, Cabad- 
baran. Mount Urdaneta, A. D. E. Elmer 13815, September 
1912. (Type in Herb. Ames No. 13439.) 
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