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Negros, For. Bur. 5582 Everett, epiphytic, flowers reddish, altitude 50 m, 

 October 31, 1906; Gimagaan River, Copeland 138, January 5, 1904, on fallen 

 branches in forests. 



E. fusca may include the following species, which nevertheless for the present 

 may be left standing. The inflorescence here is more open, the bracts being 

 relatively slenderer and further apart. In E. binabayensis the bracts on the type 

 are very round and crowded, and are not so hairy. 



E. binabayensis Ames in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 329. 



"Allied to E. oligantha Hook. f. Plants rather stout, 4-5 dm tall. 

 Stems about 5 mm in diameter. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, tapering grad- 

 ually toward the point, about 1 dm long, 1-2 cm wide, rigid, coriaceous, 

 pubescent. Inflorescence leaf-opposed, clothed with dense, cinnabar-red 

 tomentum. Bracts about 1 cm long. Raceme short, 3 cm long, probably 

 becoming longer as the flowers develop. Lateral sepals triangular-lance- 

 olate, densely tomentose externally, 1 cm long, about 8 mm wide at base. 

 Upper sepal oblong, narrower than the laterals. Petals linear-spathulate, 

 subobtuse, 7-8.5 mm long, 2 mm wide above the middle. Labellum 1 

 cm long, narrowly cuneate at base, then gradually dilated to within 2 mm 

 of the tip, where it is constricted and about 4 mm wide ; above the constric- 

 tion it is again dilated into a transversely oblong, 6-7 mm wide plate; 

 disc bicarinate." 



E. odorifera sp. nov. 



Herba epiphytica, aspectu E. annulatae BL, atque, ut videtur, affinis 

 E. phaeotrichae Schlechter. Caulis plus quam 25 cm longus, aliquid 

 gracilis, internodiis 2.5-3 cm longis, circiter 4 mm diametro. Foliorum 

 vaginae artae, cylindraceae, supra paulo dilatatae, internodiis aequilongae, 

 hirsutae, pilis sparsis runs; laminae lanceolatae (interdum oblanceolatae), 

 vel ligulato-lanceolatae, longe acuminatae, acutae, sparse hirsutae pilis 

 runs vel brunneis, ad 14 cm longae et 1.5 cm latae. Inflorescentiae breves, 

 pauciflorae, pilis xanthieis vestitae, circiter 2 cm longae, bracteis plus 

 minus 6, suborbicularibus, acuminatis, circiter 8 mm longis. Sepalum 

 dorsale hirsutum, oblongum, acutum, extus apud apicem carinatum, 8 mm 

 longum, 3 mm latum. Scpala lateralia ovario parallela, ferine oblonga, 

 paulo falcata, extus hirsuta et ad apicem carinata, acuta, mentum ovario 

 aequale oblongum plus minus 5 mm longum formantia, ± 12 mm longa 

 ab apice menti ad apicem sepali, limbo libero 4 mm lato. Petala linearia, 

 paulo spathulata, obtusa, aliquid falcata, sepalo dorsal i ferme aequilonga, 

 1.5-2 mm lata. Labellum extus intusque pubescens, unguiculato-cunea- 

 tum, prope apicem 3-lobatum; lobi laterales recti, parvi, oblongi, rotun- 

 dati; lob us medius 2-lobulatus, lobulis ovatis seu orbicularibus ; sinus 

 inter lobos laterales et lobum medium inclusi triangulares; labellum 

 totum 12 mm longum (10 mm ad apices loborum lateralium), 5 mm 

 latum. Columna cum operculo et pede ± 1cm longa." (Fig. 24.) 



Mindanao, District of Davao, trail to Mount Apo, altitude 1,500 m, Copelcmd 

 1182, April 24, 1904, an epiphyte with peculiar odor. 



