118 Ames — A New Sjyecies of Habenaria from Cuba. 



Fig. 1. Habenaria Sanbomii Ames 

 (a x VA, b 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- 

 bomii, 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 

 kindness and hos- 

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

 Cuban orchids, is associated with this species. 



Fig. 2. Habenaria odontopetala Rchb. (a x iy 2 , b and c x 3). 



