'204 LEAVITT. 



I may or may not be right in combining with the several specimens cited 

 above the following which is of an aberrant habit, yet has the flowers of the 

 species. Its most noticeable peculiarity is the pseudobulbous thickening of the 

 stem, that is of the extremity of each member of the sympodium. 



Yar. fusiform is var. nov. 



Apices caulium per internodia pmrima im-rassati, pseudobulbos form- 

 antes I'u si formes, 3-4 cm longos, plus minus 1 cm crassos, vaginis imbric- 

 atifl acaminatia vestitos, fiorigeros, et ad apicem foliosos; racemi densiores. 



Luzo.v, Province of Benguet, Mount Tonglon, For. Bur. 5067 Curran, (type), 

 August 8, 1906, epiphytic in top of tree, flowers white with pink center. Merrill 

 1590, from an altitude of 2,100 m on Mount Data, District of Lepanto, Luzon, 

 November, 1906, is somewhat peculiar, but at present is to be placed here. 



E. Hutchinsoniana Ames in Philip. Journ. Bci. 2 (1907) Bot. 330. 

 "Allied to E. tcnuifolia Eidl. Rhizomes woody, about 5 mm in 

 diameter. Pseudobulbs 5 cm-1 dm apart, abbreviated, 1.5-3 cm long, 

 clothed with scarious sheaths, leafy at the summit. Leaves linear- 

 lanceolate, about 1 dm long, about 8 mm wide, acute, tapering gradually 

 toward both ends. Inflorescence few-flowered, about 6 cm long, near the 

 summit of the pseudobulbs. Flowers white and purple. Peduncle, 

 pedicel*) and ovaries covered with rufous or dark yellowish hairs. Bracts 

 lanceolate, acute, about 4 mm long, about 1.5 mm wide. Lateral sepals 

 triangular-lanceolate, acute, slightly protuberant anteriorly at base near 

 the apex of the column foot,' about 8 mm long, 2.5 mm wide near the 

 middle, broader below. Upper sepal lanceolate, acute, about 9 mm long, 

 narrower than the laterals. Petals linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong, 

 subobtuse, 3-nerved, about 8 mm long, 2 mm wide near the middle. 

 Labcllum ecallose, smooth, 5 mm long, basal half with the sides erect 

 (conduplicate when dry), apical half oblong, rounded at the apex, 2 

 mm wide." 



E. philippinensis Ames Orchidaceae 1 (1905) 94. 



"Rhizoma repens. Pscudobulbi remoti, foliati. Folia lineari-oblonga 

 s. lineari-lanceolata, acuta, 12 cm longa, approximata. Raccmus nutans. 

 Rhachis pubcrulus. Sepala lateralis oblonga, acuta. Sepal um dorsale 

 oblongum. Pctala oblonga sub-acuta. Ljabellum integer, ovatum, ob- 

 tusum, ecallosum. Ovarium tomentosum. Flores glabn. 



"Rhizome woody, stout, creeping, bracteate. Bracts tubular, loosely 

 imbricating, obtuse. Leaves about 5, linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate, 

 acute, about 12 cm long, 11 mm wide, approximate upon remote, declined, 

 pseudobulbous, contracted, thickened stems; each pseudobulbous stem 

 subtended by a leaf. Racemes several from the summit of the short 

 stems, about 1 dm long, loosely many-flowered, tomentose. Bracts longer 

 than the tomentose pedicels, smooth. Flowers exceeding 1 cm in length, 

 smooth. Lateral sepals oblong, acute, about 1.5 cm long, 4 mm wide. 

 Upper sepal narrower than the laterals, about 1.5 cm long. Petals oblong, 



