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convex, with a long, acuminate, circinate tip which is invisible fruiu 
above, boing concealed by the apical margin. Cohnnn stout, G nun. 
long. 
The type from Giinogan River, Negros, where it was colk-cted on January 5, 
1904, by E. B. Copcland (No. 1^4) .—Growing in leaf mold in furrsls along the 
Baoo River, April and May, lOOo, h*. 0. Mc-arcyor (No. 308).— Terrestrial in 
humid forest at 700 ft. alt. along tlie IJinabay River, ilowers yellowish with purple 
spots, Nov. 3, 190G, Merrill (No. 5024). 
A careful studv of the material lollected hv Vcrrill and Mcfirr(}<ir in Mindoro 
leads me to believe that it is cun.speeilio with the tipeeiinens eolleeted (ju the 
Island of Negros by Copland and is not the same as Plocoglotlis avnni inula i>!., 
althougli a closely allied species. 
Plocoglottis mindorensis Ames sp. nov. 
. Allied to P. javanica Bl. Plants 0-8 dm. or more tall, very slender, 
graceful, not much thickened at the base. Petioles about 2 dm. long. 
Loaf narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, very acute, tapering at both 
ends, about 3 dm. long, 2.5-5 cm. wi<le, smooth. Scaj)e about 8 dm. 
long, pubescent, densely so nc^ar the summit, clothed at intervals witb 
tubular, lanceolate^ pointed sheaths. Bracts of the intlorescence rather 
rigid, triangular-lanceolate, acute, somewhat concave, pubescent, about 6 
mm. long. Flowers purplish, rather numerous in loose racemes. Pedi- 
cels slender, pubescent, about 1 cm. long. Sepals externally pubescent, 
the laterals falcate-lanceolate, about 12 mm. long, fi mm. wide near the 
middle. Upper sepal oblong-lanceolate, 1.3 cm. long, about 5 mm. wide. 
Petals linear, falcate, obtuse, 11 7iim. long, 2i^2.5 mm. wide. Labellum 
about 6 mm. long, euneate-quadrate, about 9 mm. wide near the tip; 
in the middle of the anterior margin is a deflcxed, triangular, 1 mm. long 
tooth . 
Terrestrial in humid forest at G5O-900 ft. alt. along the BinalKiy Riwr, Nov. 
3, lUOG, Merrill (No. 5837). 
SPATHOGLOTTIS Bl. 
Spathoglottis aurea Lindl. Journ. Ilort. Soc. 5: 34 (I^'JO) ; Gard. Chron. 
n. 8. 4: 92, f. 9 (1888). 
At 4,250 ft. alt. on Mount llalcon, flowers yeMow, June 15-27, 1900, M. h. 
Mcrritt (No. 4;J75). 
Apieal lobe of tlie hihelluni hilohed. The material on wliieli niy determination 
in based is not very satisfactory. 
Java, 8uinatra, Borneo and Malay I'eninsula. 
Spathoglottis plicata Bl. B.ijdr. 400, 401 (1825). 
Flowers liglit purple, odorless, plants ^n'owin^ in damp soil anion;^ bowlders 
ah)ng stream, Alag River, Nov. 0, 190(J, Merrill (Nos. 5021 5815). 
Afalay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Celel>es, Moluccas, New Guinea, 
Solomon and Fiji Islands. Very common in the Philippines. 
