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The Philippine Journal of Science 
1917 
HETAERIA Blume 
HETAERIA OBLONGI FOLIA Blume Bijdr. (1825) 410; Tabel, /. U. 
Amboina, Hitoe messen, Reliquiae Robinsonianae 1629, altitude 150 
meters. Terrestrial on lime stone, the flowers white. 
Not previously recorded from Amboina. 
— ' GOODYERA R. Brown 
GOODYERA RUBICUNDA Lindl. in Bot. Reg. (1839) 92, var. AMBOI- 
NENSIS J. J. Sm. var. nov. 
Caulis e basi decumbente radicante adscendens, validus, c. 
10-foliatus, c. 47 cm longus. Folia petiolata, oblique elliptica 
ad oblanceolato-elliptica, triangulo-angustata, acuminata, acuta, 
basi sensim longe acuminata, curvinervia, costa media dorso 
prominente, oblique reticulato-venosa, sicco membranacea, c. 9- 
17.5 cm longa, 3.85-5 cm lata; petiolus canaliculatus, basi dila- 
tatus, cum vagina tubulosa c. 5.5-7.5 cm longus. Inflorescentia 
erecta, elongata, laxe multiflora, pedunculo c. 31 cm longo, su- 
perne pubescenti, vaginulis c. 7 foliaceis basi tubulosis adpressis 
superne decrescentibus et in bracteas vergentibus donato, rachide 
1 ngius glanduloso pubescenti, c. 25 cm longa. Bracteae ovato- 
lanceolatae, sensim longe acuminatae, concavae, pubescentes, 
1-nerviae, ad c. 1.8 cm longae. Flores quaquaversi, patentes, 
deinde patentissimi, c. 1.25 cm lati, 0.-73 cm longi, sepalis paten- 
tissimis, dorso glanduloso-pubescentibus. Sepalum dorsal erec- 
tum, ovato-oblongum, sensim angustatum, obtusum, concavum, 
3-nervium, c. 0.65 cm longum, 0.26 cm latum. Sepala lateralia 
divaricata, oblique oblonga, dimidio superiore angustata, an- 
guste obtusa et apice canaliculata, 3-nervia, c. 0.625-0.66 cm 
longa, 0.27-0.3 cm lata. Petala sepalo dorsali agglutinata, 
oblique spathulata, ex ungue lineari superne dilatato plus minus- 
ve abrupte in laminam rhombeam obtusam dilatata, 1-nervia, c. 
0.65 cm longa, 0.17 cm lata. Labellum erectum, interne margi- 
nibus gynostemio adpressum, valde ventricoso-concavum, subtus 
longitudinaliter sulcatum, basi lata oblique subsaccata affixum, 
apice abrupte contractum recurvumque, 5-nervium, explanatum 
suborbiculare, margine antico excepto carnoso-incrassatum et 
intus dense muricibus mollibus obtectum, apice abrupte in ap- 
pendicem triangulo-oblongam obtusam contractum, totum c. 0.57 
cm longum, 0.475 cm latum, appendice c. 0.15 cm longa. Gyno- 
stemium vix curvulum, clavatum, basi tenue et subtus longi- 
tudinaliter costatum, c. 0.5 cm longum, clinandrio magno, alte 
excavato, ovato, quam dimidium gynostemii breviore. Anthera 
erecta, basi in clinandrium immersa, oblongo-triangula, sensim 
acuminata, apice recurvula, acuta, basi truncata biloba, lobis 
