THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



C. Botany 



Vol. [V DECEMBER, 1909 No. 6 



NOTES ON PHILIPPINE ORCHIDS WITH DESCRIPTIONS 



OF NEW SPECIES. II. 1 



By Oakes. Ames. 

 From the Amis Botanical Laboratory, North Boston, Mass., U. B. A.) 



In the following notes I have arranged the genera according to the 

 system adopted by Pfitzer in Engler and PrantPs "Die natiirlichen 

 Pflanzenfamilien." The species included were, with few exceptions, 

 collected for the Bureau of Science. In all thirty-one species are 

 treated of which twenty-two are additions to my previously published 

 lists of Philippine orchids. 



EP I PACT IS Boehmer. 



Epipactis clausa A. A. Eaton ex Ames Orchidaceae 3 (1908) 41, pi. 58." 



In addition to the solitary specimen which constitutes the type, preserved in 

 the herbarium of the Bureau of Science, I have now Been two sets of specimens 

 which make possible the following emendations of the description published in 

 Fascicle III of "Orchidaceae": 



Lateral sepals iroadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 4 nun long-. Upper 

 sepal similar to the laterals and nearly equal to them, strongly relieved 

 at the tip. Petals dolabriform, 4 mm long. Labellum 2.5 to :5 nun 

 long, saccate, somewhat cymbiform, obtuse, with unequal elavate hairs or 

 emergences inside. 



The plants exceed 2 dm in height and arise from a creeping, fleshy rhizome. 

 The leaves, about four in number, 4 cm apart, on the succulent stem, appear to 

 have been dark-green when fresh, ornamented with whitish nerves. The margins 

 of the leaves in dried specimens are usually strongly crenulate and in fresh 



'Proof corrected by E. D. Merrill and ('. B. Robinson. 



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