NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
ovatam cucullatam connata, in caudam linearem apice 
bifidam abrupte terminantia. Sepalum dorsale et petala 
similia. Labellum parvulum, latissime rhombicum, acutum 
vel mucronatum, margine anteriore multidentato, prope 
basim in medio callo triangulari ornatum. 
Plant small. Rhizome very long creeping, filiform, 
mostly concealed by short tubular sheaths, producing re¬ 
mote fibrous roots. Stems about 6-25 mm. apart on the 
rhizome, very short, about 5 mm. long, entirely concealed 
by 2 loose imbricating, infundibuliform, mucronate sheaths. 
Leaf elliptic, 1-2 cm. long, 3.5-8 mm. wide, acute, minutely 
tridenticulate with a prominent median mucro, rather 
abruptly narrowed to a very short petiole. Peduncle very 
short, arising near the apex of the stem, 1-flowered, con¬ 
cealed at the base by a pair of imbricating long-mucronate 
sheaths. Ovary turbinate, with an adnate filiform ap¬ 
pendage, concealed by a loose infundibuliform long-mu¬ 
cronate sheath. Flower large, pale green or pale yellow 
green. Lateral sepals connate into a lamina which is broadly 
ovate, deeply cucullate, 2-nerved, 5.5-7 mm. long, up to 6 
mm. wide, abruptly terminating in a slender cauda which 
is 10-17 mm: long and bidentate to nearly one-half its 
length, margins wholly entire. Dorsal sepal with an ovate 
3-nerved lamina 5-6 mm. long, about 4.2 mm. wide, mar¬ 
gins commonly ciliolate, terminating rather abruptly in a 
slender cauda which is about 19 mm. long. Petals forming 
an obliquely ovate 3-nerved lamina which is nearly as long 
as that of the dorsal sepal, with minutely ciliolate margins, 
terminating in a filiform cauda which is about 9-14 mm. 
long. Labellum relatively small, transversely rhombic with 
the sides slightly upcurved, 2.1-2.4 mm. long, 3.3-3.8 mm. 
wide across the middle when expanded, sharply acute with 
a broad triangular apicule, anterior margin multidenticulate 
with a parallel line of similar teeth just within the margin, 
3-nerved, a large triangular fleshy callus in the middle near 
the base. Column short and stout, about 1 mm. long, ter¬ 
minating on each side in a short unequally bidentate arm. 
Pollinia 6, linear-pyriform. 
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