. The Botanical magazine. Plants; Plants -- Japan. 10 BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. [Vol XIX, Whole plant 11-22 cm. high. Ehizome short, ascending or erect ? roots filiform, with root-hairs. Stem erect, slendrr, glabrous below the leaves but above them pubescent with patent glandular hairs including the rachis of the raceme, provided with short, adpressetl, membranaceous and remotely placed two sheaths at the base. Leaves 2, oppositely approximate, situated in the middle of the whole plant, patent, sessile, ovato-semiorbicu- late, or subreniform-semiorbiculate, abruptly cuspidate at the apex, broadly tr
. The Botanical magazine. Plants; Plants -- Japan. 10 BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. [Vol XIX, Whole plant 11-22 cm. high. Ehizome short, ascending or erect ? roots filiform, with root-hairs. Stem erect, slendrr, glabrous below the leaves but above them pubescent with patent glandular hairs including the rachis of the raceme, provided with short, adpressetl, membranaceous and remotely placed two sheaths at the base. Leaves 2, oppositely approximate, situated in the middle of the whole plant, patent, sessile, ovato-semiorbicu- late, or subreniform-semiorbiculate, abruptly cuspidate at the apex, broadly truncate or truncato-subcordate and in centre very slightly produced at the base, minutely crispulate on the entire margin, glabrous, membranaceous, 13-25 mm. long, 10-31 ram. wide ? main nerves 3? with a vein between main nerves and in their ontsides ? veinlets loosely anastomosing ? reduced leaves none or only one, squamiforra, ovato-subulate, membranaceous,1- nerved. Kacerae erect, loosely 3-9-flowered, 3-51 cru. long ? rachis gracile, often subflexuous ? bracts (Fig. ) small, patulous or erect-patent, distinctly shorter than pedicels, ovato-subulate, membranaceous, glabrous,1-nerved, l|-5 mm. long. Flowers small, oliva- ceo-purpurascent ? ? pedicels gracile, erect-patent, glabrous or subpuberulent, 3-8 mm. long. Perianth equal in length, obtuse, membranaceous, 1-nerv- ed, 3-4 mm. long. Sepals reflexed ? the superior one { 2.) oblong- ?anceo?ate ?lateral ones {Fig. IV. 3.) similar, but hardly oblique in form. Petals {Fig. IV. 4.) slightly broader than sepals, oblong. Labellum {Fig. IV. 5.) twice as long as the perianth, flabellato-obcordate with ovato-oval or oval-elliptical rounded-obtuse often subcreuulate divergent lobes, with a minute depressed-deltoid ]ioint in the bottom of open sinus, broadly cuneate below and shortly attenuated at the base, on each side near its base fur- nished with a small mm. long.) obovato-elliptical or subspathulato- oblong obtuse toot
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