ORCHIDACE.E 



4. Heteeria oblongifolia Bl. Fl. Jav. Orch. 85, t. 32, fig. 3 (cf. 



Orchidace^e 2 : 62, 63). 



Luzon, Negros, Palawan, Balabac, Mindanao. 

 Also Java, Moluccas, German New Guinea. 



5. Hetceria Wenzelii sp. nov. Herba terrestris, usque ad 35 cm. 

 alta, usque ad medium foliata. Folia anguste lanceolata,paulatim 

 acuminata, valde acuta, in sicco membranacea, 2.5-6 cm. longa, 

 circiter 1.5 cm. lata, petiolata; petiolus usque ad 13 mm. longus, 

 ad basim vaginans, infundibuliformis, inter laminam foliorum et 

 vaginam contractus. Pars aphylla caulium circiter 2 dm. longa, 

 sparsim villosa, bracteis 3. Bracteaa infimae tubulares, vel oblique 

 infundibuliformes, in apicem valde acutum productaa. Flores 

 ±12 in racemo laxo dispositi. Bracteas inflorescentias lanceolatse, 

 ad basim concavae, infimag pedunculum cum ovario excedentes 

 vel aequantes, circiter 8 mm. longae, sparsim villosae. Sepala lat- 

 eralia ovato-lanceolata, acuta minute puberula, 6 mm. longa, 

 2.5 mm. lata. Sepalum dorsale ovato-lanceolatum paulatim acu- 

 minatum, acutum, ad basim concaviusculum, extus minute 

 puberulum, vix 7 mm. longum, petalis adhaerens. Petala 7 mm. 

 longa, supra medium linearia, 1 mm. longa, infra medium semi- 

 orbicularia. Labellum saccatum; limbus, marginibus involutis, 

 superne incrassatis, in lobos triangulos expansus, apiculatus. 

 Totum labellum 6 mm. longum; lobi 4 mm. longi, ad basim 

 2 mm. lati, paulatim acuminati. Saccus scrotiformis, intus utrin- 

 que callus tridigitatus. Gynostemium 3 mm. longum. Ovarium 

 sparsim hirsutum. 



Hetceria Wenzelii is related rather closely to H. lamellata 

 Bl., from which it differs in habit and in having within the sac 

 of the labellum only one series of calli on each side. The three 

 divisions of the calli are slenderly conical. The apical lobes of the 



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