70 ORCHIDACEM 



"In pratis humilioribus Ircutiae et in muscosis Catharinopolis 

 ibi sub medium lulii, liic sub initium Augusti florentem vid 



1." 



Plants 17-30 cm. or more High, slender. Leaves linear-oblong, 

 acute, 6-14 cm. long. Stem smooth above. Rhachis smooth or 

 sometimes sparsely pubescent. Floral bracts longer than the 

 ovaries. Perianth pink-purple, about 4 mm. long, deflexed. Lateral 

 sepals triangular-lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved, 4 mm. long. Petals 

 oblong, slightly sigmoid, obtuse, 3.5 mnj. long. Lip dilated above, 

 sub-truncate, irregularly crenulate on the margin, constricted near 

 the middle; basal half rounded, ^vith two obtuse, short calli at 

 base. A variable, widely distributed species, sometimes producing 

 white flowers. Plants are not infrequently found to be glandular 

 pubescent near the top of the stem. In habit they resemble S. 

 tortilis, Richard, of tropical America. 



Baguio, Prov. Benguet, Luzon, June, 1904, A. D. E. Elmer 

 (no. 6623). 



HETiERIA, Blume 



H. oblongifolia, Blume, Fl. Jav. 4 ; 85(1858). — Etceria oh- 

 longifolia, Blume, Bijdr. 410 (1825): "E: foliis ovato-oblongis, 

 floribus laxe spicatis externe glanduloso-puberulis, labelli limbo 

 vato-f ornicato . ' ' 



Rhizomes creeping. Plants 3-5 dm. high, puberulous above, 

 leafy. Leaves 4-9 cm. long, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, char- 

 taceous, petiolate. Petioles winged, dilated-tubular where they 

 sheath the stem. Bracts linear-subulate, tinged with purple (?), 

 those of the inflorescence equaUing or exceeding the ovaries. 

 Raceme spicate, slender, 9 cm. long, about 5 mm. in diameter. 

 Flowers small. Perianth 2-2.5 mm. long, pubescent. Lateral 

 sepals ovate. Uppen sepal orbicular-ovate. Petals narrower than 

 the sepals, gradually broadened toward the summit, then asym- 

 metrically acuminate. Lip strongly concave, ovate-oblong, with 

 several lateral setiform appendages near the base along the nerves, 



