NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
Plant 3-6 cm. tall with several relatively large basal 
leaves, 5-10 mm. apart on the ascending complanate winged 
stems. Roots very coarse, whitish, smooth, spreading, some¬ 
what flattened. Basal leaves crowded, sub-rosulate, 5-10 mm. 
long, up to 2 mm. wide, narrowly lanceolate, acute, fleshy, 
more or less erect; scale-like leaves 1-3 mm. long, alternate. 
Raceme up to 2.5 cm. long, loosely-flowered, with the rachis 
TEUPOGOn 
strongly flattened and conspicuously winged. Floral bracts 
scale-like, more or less triangular, about 1 mm. long. Flow¬ 
ers yellow, about six, opening in succession, buds and fruits 
simultaneously present. Pedicellate ovary about 3.5 mm. 
long. Lateral sepals about 2.5 mm. long, strongly concave, 
triangular-ovate, acute, 1-nerved. Dorsal sepal similar. 
Petals 2.5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide below the middle, nar¬ 
rowly ovate, acute, glabrous on the outer surface, densely 
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