254 The Philippine Journal of Science - 1917 
HETAERIA Blume 
HETAERIA OBLONGIFOLIA Blume Bijdr. (1825) 410; Tabel. f. 14. 
AMBOINA, Hitoe messen, Reliquiae Robinsonianae 1629, altitude 150 
meters. Terrestrial on lime stone, the flowers white. 
Not previously recorded from Amboina. 
GOODYERA R. Brown 
GOODYERA RUBICUNDA Lindl. in Bot. Reg. (1839) 92, var. AMBOI- 
NENSIS J. J. Sm. var. nov. 
Caulis e basi decumbente radicante adscendens, validus, c. 
10-foliatus, c. 47 cm longus. Folia petiolata, oblique elliptica 
ad oblanceolato-elliptica, triangulo-angustata, acuminata, acuta, 
basi sensim longe acuminata, curvinervia, costa media dorso 
prominente, oblique reticulato-venosa, sicco membranacea, c. 9- 
17.5 cm longa, 3.85-5 cm lata; petiolus canaliculatus, basi dila- . 
tatus, cum vagina tubulosa c. 5.5-7.5 cm longus. Inflorescentia 
erecta, elongata, laxe multiflora, pedunculo c. 31 cm longo, su- 
perne pubescenti, vaginulis c. 7 foliaceis basi tubulosis adpressis 
superne decrescentibus et in bracteas vergentibus donato, rachide 
I ngius glanduloso pubescenti,.c. 25 cm longa. Bracteae ovato- 
lanceolatae, sensim longe acuminatae, concavae, pubescentes, 
l-nerviae, ad c. 1.8 cm longae. Flores quaquaversi, patentes, 
deinde patentissimi, c, 1.25 cm lati, 0.73 cm longi, sepalis paten- 
tissimis, dorso glanduloso-pubescentibus. Sepalum dorsal erec- 
tum, ovato-oblongum, sensim angustatum, obtusum, concavum, 
3-nervium, c. 0.65 cm longum, 0.26 cm latum. Sepala lateralia 
divaricata, oblique oblonga, dimidio superiore angustata, an- 
guste obtusa et apice canaliculata, 3-nervia, c. 0.625-0.66 cm 
longa, 0.27-0.3 cm lata. Petala sepalo dorsali agglutinata, 
oblique spathulata, ex ungue lineari superne dilatato plus minus- 
ve abrupte in laminam rhombeam obtusam dilatata, 1-nervia, c 
0.65 cm longa, 0.17 cm lata. Labellum erectum, inferne margi- 
nibus gynostemio adpressum, valde ventricoso-concavum, subtus 
longitudinaliter sulcatum, basi lata oblique subsaccata affixum, 
apice abrupte contractum recurvumque, 5-nervium, explanatum 
suborbiculare, margine antico excepto carnoso-incrassatum et 
intus dense muricibus mollibus obtectum, apice abrupte in ap- 
pendicem triangulo-oblongam obtusam contractum, totum c. 0.57 
cm longum, 0.475 cm latum, appendice c. 0.15 em longa. Gyno-- 
stemium vix curvulum, clavatum, basi tenue et subtus longi- 
tudinaliter costatum, c. 0.5 em longum, clinandrio magno, alte 
excavato, ovato, quam dimidium gynostemii breviore. Anthera 
erecta, basi-in clinandrium immersa, oblongo-triangula, sensim 
acuminata, apice recurvula, acuta, basi truncata: biloba, lobis 
¢ # 
