118 Ames A New Species of Hdbenaria from Cuba. 



FIG. 1. Habenaria Sanbornii Ames 

 (axlft, & and ex 3). 



ovaries; racemes 6-30 cm. long, loosely or densely flowered, flowers few 

 or many (twelve to sixty), pedicels short, nearly erect; lateral sepals 



greenish, strongly deflexed, falcate, 

 spreading, elliptic-oblong, mostly 

 3-nerved, 7 mm. long; upper sepal 

 similar in color, nearly orbicular, 

 3-nerved, 4 mm. long; petals 4 mm. 

 long, greenish-yellow, oblong, some 

 what quadrangular, the angles ob 

 tuse, rounded, at the summit of 

 each petal the main nerve termin 

 ates in an abrupt denticle, anterior 

 basal angle slightly protuberant; 

 lip 5 mm. long, yellowish, oblong- 

 linear, pointed, quite straight, de- 

 flexed, margin rather revolute, base 

 on either side obscurely obtuse 

 angled, otherwise the lip is entire 

 and regular; spur 10-12 mm. long, 



slender, straight; stigmatic glands somewhat globular; ovary 11-12 mm. 

 long, cylindrical, tapering to both ends. 



Cuba: In vicinity of Cayajabos, Pinar del Rio. Type in Author's 

 Herbarium, No. 519. January 29, 1903 (Leavitt and Ames). 



Habenaria San 

 bornii, does not ap- 

 pear in Wright's 

 collections of Cub 

 an plants so far as 

 I have been able to 

 ascertain, and up 

 to this time I have 

 not succeeded in 

 identifying my ma 

 terial with any spe 

 cies of Habenaria 

 hitherto described. 

 Typical specimens 

 have been placed 

 in the Gray Her 

 barium of Harvard 

 University. 



The name of Ed- 

 w i n L . Sanborn, 

 Jr., through whose FIG. 2. Habenaria odontopetala Rchb. (a x 1}4, & and c x 3). 

 kindness and hos 

 pitality I was enabled to make a considerable collection and study of 

 Cuban orchids, is associated with this species. 



