NK\\' OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
elongala, floribus succedaneis. Pedicellus cum ovario 
gracilis, elongatus. Flores virides. Sepala lateralia oblongo- 
elliptica, obliisa, apice incrassata, trinervia, basi cohaerenLia. 
Sepalum dorsale simile. Petala linearia, usque ad apicem 
attenuata. Labellum sagitlatum, apice tridenlatum; auric¬ 
ulae labelli semicrescentiformes, aculae. Discus conspicue 
et profunde bicameratus. Columna generis. 
Roots spreading, fibrous, densely villous. Rhizome 
about 5 mm. thick, creeping. Stems at length pseudobul- 
bous, 2-leaved. Pseudobulbs up to 4 cm. long, about 2 cm. 
thick at the base, obpyriform, clothed with scarious sheaths 
which persist. Leaves approximate, produced at base into 
elongated petioles; lamina 9-13 cm. long, 4.5-8 cm. wide, 
elliptic-ovate or ovate, acute, rounded at the base, mem¬ 
branaceous. Petioles 5-11 cm. long, that of the upper leaf 
clasping the petiole of the lower leaf. Peduncle with the 
raceme 14-20 cm. long conspicuously winged, naked below 
the raceme, clasped by the base of the upper leaf. Raceme 
3-5 cm. long, with a thickened rachis. Flowers greenish, 
opening in succession. Bracts of the raceme spreading, at 
length somewhat dellexed, 2.5 mm. long, triangular-lanceo¬ 
late, greenish. Pedicel with the ovary 1.5-2 cm. long, 
slender, obliquely spreading. Lateral sepals about 7 mm. 
long, 2.5 mm. wide at the middle, coherent at the base, 
oblong-elliptic, obtuse, with the margin dellexed, 3-nerved, 
somewhat thickened at the tip. Dorsal sepal 7 mm. long, 
3.5-4 mm. wide, similar to the laterals. Petals 4 mm. long, 
linear, narrowed gradually toward the tip, less than 1 mm. 
wide. Labellum including the basal auricles 5 mm. long, 
3.5-4 mm. wide below the middle, broadly sagittate with a 
conspicuously tridentate apex; teeth unequal, the middle 
tooth much exceeding the lateral ones, 1 mm. long; auricles 
2 mm. long, semicrescentiform, acute, incurved. Disc 
lleshy, with two deep depressions near the middle which are 
rounded at Ihe bottom and separated by a heavily thickened 
longitudinal partition. Column abbreviated. 
Malaxis Maxonii is a close ally of M. hastilahia (Reichb. 
f.) Ktze., from which it differs conspicuously in having 
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