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Negros, For. Bur. 5582 Everett, ep. phytic, flowers reddish, altitude 50 m, 
October 31, 1906; Gimagaan River, Copeland 138, January 5, 1904, on fallen 
branches in forests. 
E. fusca may include the following species, which nevertheless for the present 
may be left standing. The inflorescence here is more open, the bracts being 
relatively slenderer and further apart. In E. binabayensis the bracts on the type 
are very round and crowded, and are not so hairy. 
E. binabayensis Ames in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 329. 
“Allied to E. oligantha Hook. f. Plants rather stout, 4-5 dm tall. 
Stems about 5 mm in diameter. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, tapering grad- 
ually toward the point, about 1 dm long, 1-2 cm wide, rigid, coriaceous, 
pubescent. Inflorescence leaf-opposed, clothed with dense, cinnabar-red 
tomentum. Bracts about 1 cm long. Raceme short, 3 cm long, probably 
becoming longer as the flowers develop. Lateral sepals triangular-lance- 
olate, densely tomentose externally, 1 cm long, about 8 mm wide at base. 
Upper sepal oblong, narrower than the laterals. Petals linear-spathulate, 
subobtuse, 7-8.5 mm long, 2 mm wide above the middle. Labellum 1 
cm long, narrowly cuneate at base, then gradually dilated to within 2 mm 
of the tip, where it is constricted and about 4 mm wide ; above the constric- 
tion it is again dilated into a transversely oblong, 6-7 mm wide plate; 
disc bicarinate.” 
E. odor if era sp. nov. 
Ilerba epiphytica, aspectu E. annulatae Bl., atque, ut videtur, affinis 
E. phaeotrichae Schlechter. Caulis plus quam 25 cm longus, aliquid 
gracilis, internodiis 2.5-3 cm longis, circiter 4 mm diametro. Foliorum 
vaginae artae, cylindraceae, supra paulo dilatatae, internodiis aequilongae, 
hirsutae, pilis spar sis rufis; laminae lanceolatae (interdum oblanceolatae), 
vel ligulato-lanceolatae, longe acuminatae, acutae, sparse hirsutae pilis 
rufis vel brunneis, ad 14 cm longae et 1.5 cm latae. Inflorescentiae breves, 
pauciflorae, pilis xanthieis vestitae, circiter 2 cm longae, bracteis plus 
minus 6, suborbicularibus, acuminatis, circiter 8 mm longis. Sepalum 
dorsale hirsutum, oblongum, acutum, extus apud apicem carinatum, 8 mm 
longum, 3 mm latum. Sepala lateralia ovario parallela, ferine oblonga, 
paulo falcata, extus liirsuta et ad apicem carinata, acuta, mentum ovario 
aequale oblongum plus minus 5 mm longum fomiantia, ±12 mm longa 
ab apice menti ad apicem sepali, limbo libero 4 mm lato. Petala linearia, 
paulo spathulata, obtusa, aliquid falcata, sepalo dorsali ferine aequilonga, 
1.5-2 mm lata. Labellum extus intusque pubescens, unguiculato-cunea- 
tum, prope apicem 3-lobatum; lobi laterales recti, parvi, oblongi, rotun- 
dati; lobus medius 2-lobulatus, lobulis ovatis seu orbicularibus ; sinus 
inter lobos laterales et lobum medium inclusi triangulares; labellum 
totum 12 mm longum (10 mm ad apices loborum lateralium), 5 mm 
latum. Columna cum operculo et pede ± 1 cm longa.” (Fig. 24.) 
Mindanao, District of Davao, trail to Mount Apo, altitude 1,500 m, Copeland 
1182, April 24, 1904, an epiphyte with peculiar odor. 
