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LEAVITT. 
the base, which my camera drawing from the type, reproduced below (fig. 8), 
does not show. The longest leaf is 9 cm long by 2 cm broad, and the raceme 
is 14 cm long. The sepals are 1 cm long by 4-4.5 mm broad, and the petals are 
of the same dimensions; the lip is 6 mm long, 3.5 mm broad; the column excluding 
the anther is 2 mm high, its foot 2.3 mm long, and the ovary and pedicel 1 cm 
long; the floral bracts are broadly lanceolate, acute, the lower about 5 mm long. 
My notes say that all parts of the lip are thin and veiny. The ovary is rather 
densely pubescent with short brownish or tawny hairs. My camera drawing is 
from Lindley’s type. 
E. Elmeri Ames Orchidaceae 1 (1905) 93; 2 (1908) 196. 
“Gardes elongati, 2 dm longi. Folia coriacea, elliptico-oblonga, obtusa, 
5-8 cm longa. Racemus nutans, rhachis puberulus. Sepala similia, 
oblonga, obtusa, trinervia. Petala oblonga, obtusa. Labellum ovato- 
laneeolatum, sub-acutum s. obtusum, ad basim bicallosum. Flores glabri. 
"Plants about 2 dm high ? Stems rather stout, leafy above, 5-7 mm 
thick. Roots branching, villose-pubescent. Leaves about 7 in number, 
approximate near the summit of the stem, coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, 
obtuse, 5-8 cm long, up to 3 cm wide, many-nerved, shortly petiolate. 
Racemes several, slender, flexuous, about 1 dm long, from the summit of 
the stems, many-flowered. Rhachis sparsely pubescent. Floral bracts 
conspicuous, oblong, sub-acute, about 6 mm long. Pedicels about 5 mm 
long, slender. Sepals similar, oblong, obtuse, 6 mm long, 3-nerved. 
Petals shorter than the sepals, oblong, obtuse. Lip 3-nerved, articulated 
with the foot of the column by a short oblong claw, purplish, narrowly 
ovate, subacute or obtuse, 3 mm long, 1.5 mm wide just above the claw, 
with two short, keel-like intramarginal calli, one on each side near the 
base of the expanded limb. Column 1.5 mm long, produced into a dis- 
tinct foot. Pollinia 8. Flowers yellowish or whitish with a purple- 
stained lip.” Ames Orchidaceae 1 (1905) 93. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Lamao River, Mount Mariveles, Whit-ford 161, 
1111, May, 1904, March 3, 1905. Epiphyte, flowers yellow, common on ridges, 
altitude 1,000-1,500 m. 
E. com pacta Ames in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 329. 
“Roots elongated, much branched. Pseudobulbs approximate, elong- 
ated-pyriform, about 5 cm long, about 1 cm in diameter at base, bifoliate. 
Leaves rigid, coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 4. 5-5. 5 cm long, 10-14 
mm wide. Inflorescence about 3 cm long. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, 5 
mm long, about 2 nun wide, acute, equaling or exceeding the pedicels of 
the flowers. Lateral sepals triangular-lanceolate, acute, 6 mm long, 2.5 
mm wide at base. Upper sepal lanceolate, slightly broader than the 
laterals. Petals lanceolate, acute or subacute, about 6 mm long, 2 mm 
wide, 3-nerved. Labellum ovate-lanceolate, subobtuse, cordate at base, 4 
mm long, 1.75 mm wide near the base.” 
The very broad column is distinctive. 
