NE\\’ OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
labelli valde deOexa, elliptica, conduplicata, subtus carina 
carnosa instructa, apice conspicue apiculata. Columna 
brevis, bicuspidata. 
Rhizome elongated, clothed with abbreviated whitish 
sheaths, rooting beneath the pseudobulbs. Roots spreading, 
smooth. Pseudobulbs about 7 mm. long, about 3 mm. in 
diameter near the base, obpyriform, yellowish and much 
wrinkled when dry, erect or ascending, about 5 mm. apart 
on the rhizome, monophyllous. Leaf 22-32 mm. long, 
5-10 mm. wide near the middle, apparently very variable, 
elliptic-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, apiculate, 
shortly petiolate. Petiole 2 mm. long, slender. Scapes aris¬ 
ing from the base of the pseudobulbs or from the rhizorhe 
between the pseudobulbs, 4-5 cm. long, with a tubular 
bract at the base, ascending, exceeding the leaf, bearing a 
single green and purple flower and provided beneath the 
pedicellate ovary with a short, infundibuliform bract. 
Pedicel and ovary 4 mm. long. Lateral sepals 12.5-15 mm. 
long, about 2 mm. wide near the base, tapering gradually to 
the acute tip, 3-nerved, narrowly triangular-lanceolate, 
united at base where they form a short obtuse mentum. 
Mentum 2 mm. long. Dorsal sepal 11.5-15 mm. long, 
similar to the laterals, somewhat concave at base, very 
slender above the middle, 3-nerved. Petals about 5 mm. 
long, 1 mm. wide, oblong, acute, slightly narrowed toward 
the base, 1-nerved, membranaceous, smooth. Labellum 
4 mm. long, shortly and narrowly unguiculate, sharply de- 
flexed at about the middle, basal half narrowed, tricarinate 
on the upper surface, apical half elliptical-apiculate when 
spread out, thickened along the middle on the under sur¬ 
face, cucullate at the apex. Keels more or less fleshy, the 
laterals intramarginal, divergent at the base of the la¬ 
bellum, the central keel shorter and broader than the 
lateral ones, somewhat cleft at the protuberant base, very 
minutely glandulose. Column abbreviated, prolonged at 
base into a distinct foot, produced at the apex into two tri¬ 
angular stelidia. Foot of the column dilated at the point 
where the labellum is inserted. 
