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"Stems 2—3 ft., as thick as a swan-quill. Leaves coriaceous, nerved. 

 Racemes 8—12 in.; bracts 1^ in.; flowers blue within; mentum cylindric; 

 petals oblanceolate, 3-nerved. Capsule | in., linear." Hooker f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. I. c. 



Mindanao, Province of Misamis, Mount Malindang, For. Bur. $595 M earns & 

 Hutchinson, May, 1906, altitude 1,750 m, flowers with a purplish tinge. 



The three remaining species appear to be undescribed, and I will characterize 

 them here. Between two of them the iloral differences in the dried state are not 

 great, but the vegetative differences are more pronounced. In both the floral 

 conformation is very like that of E. major Ridl. The third is easily separated 

 from any of the heretofore described species. 



E. longibracteata sp. now 



Caules foliosi, graciles, vaginis foliorum tecti, in sicco 4 mm diametro, 

 ad 45 cm longi; internodii circiter 4 cm longi. Folia anguste lanceolata 

 vel etiam graminea, longe attenuate, acutissima; laminae disarticulatae 

 nunc 14 cm longae, 1 cm latae, nunc 21 cm longae, 6 mm latae, vel 

 saepius breviores; vaginae cylindraceae, circiter 5 cm longae. Race ml 

 2-4, ad summum caulem orti, pedunculati; inflorescentia omnis ad 23 cm 

 longa; pedunculus ad 6-7 cm longus, lanugine alba, vix densa, bracteas 

 conspicuas (interdum foliaceas) lanceolatas vel lineatas 1.5-6 cm longae 

 et 4 mm latas gerens; rhachis lanuginosus; bractcae flores subtendentes 

 lanceolatae, acuminatae, acutissimae, 4-20 mm longae. Pedicellus cum 

 ovario 5 mm longus, vel longior, lanuginosus, ovario celeriter crescente, 

 post anthesim longitudinem 28 mm attingente. Flores extus lanugine 

 albida vestiti. Sepala 3.6 mm longa; dorsale cymbiformi-ovatum, ex- 

 planatum vix 2 mm latum ; lateralia triangularia, aliquid falcata, acuta, 

 extus apicem versus carinata, circiter 3 mm lata ad basim. Petala fere 

 elliptica, aliquid asymmetrica, ad apicem rotundata, 3-3.5 mm longa, 

 1.5-1.9 mm lata. Labellum 3—4 mm longum, 3-3.5 mm latum, triloba- 

 tum, obovatum, basi breviter unguiculato, aliquid cuneato; lobi laterales 

 ferme semiovati, interdum apicibus recurvatis; lobus medius bilobulatus, 

 0.8 mm longus, 2 mm latus, ad apicem dente marginale obtuso ; ad basim 

 labelli tuberculum bifurcatum, erectum, farinosum, atque tubercula duo 

 minuta; in disco utrinque callus carinatus, dentiformis, a sinubus latera- 

 libus remotus; e medio lobi terminalis tuberculum permagnum, erectum, 

 conicum, farinosum. Pes columnae angulum rectum cum ovario formans, 

 2 mm longus. Columna brevissima. (Fig. 19.) 



Mindanao, Province of Misamis, Mount Malindang, For. Bur. J/728 Mearns & 

 Hutchinson, May 25, 1906, altitude 1,700 m, flowers purplish. 



E. anceps sp. nov. 



Caules ad 30 cm alti; internodia ad 4-5 cm longa. Folia lanceolata 

 vel ligulato-lanceolata, lamina ad 20 cm longa et 3 cm lata, acuta, vagina 

 ad 5 cm longa, aliquid ut videtur complanata, tergo subcarinato. Racemi 

 2 vel 3, sparse lanuginosi, ad 17 cm longi, pedunculo circiter 3 cm longo. 



