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AMES. 
2 to 5 mm wide, acuminate, acute. Bracts sheathing, 3 or 4, 
aristate, 5 to 10 mm long. Flowers few, 2 to 4, white. Floral 
bracts about 5 mm long, about one-third as long as the pedicel 
and ovary, aristate. Lateral sepals narrowly ovate, subacute, 
larger than the dorsal one, about 7 mm long, by 3 mm wide. 
Upper sepal ovate, cucullate, about 5 mm long. Petals simple, 
linear, 1-nerved, obtuse, 6 mm long, 1 mm wide. Labellum 
tripartite nearly to the base, divisions filiform, about equally 
wide, the laterals longer than the middle one, laterals about 
1.3 cm long, middle division 7 mm long, 0.5 mm wide. Spur 
about 13 mm long, slender near the opening, dilated from about 
the middle, resembling the abdomen of an ichneumon fly. 
Anther canals about equaling the stigmatic processes. Stigmatic 
processes cylindric, hippocrepiform. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Quinatacutan, Foxworthy & Ramos, Bur. 
Sci. 13208, on rocks at the edge of the stream, 75 m above sea level. 
Described in collector’s note as “tuber-bearing or with fleshy roots.” 
This species, which I have been unable to refer to any described Habe- 
naria, belongs, in my opinion, to the § Diphyllae. The flowers resemble those 
of H. falcigera, H. diphylla, etc., but the foliage is quite characteristic. 
GASTRODIA R. Br. 
Gastrodia javanica (Bl.) Lindl. 
Palawan, Napsahan, on the west coast, Elmer D. Merrill 7233, Sptember 
19, 1910. “About rotten stumps along trail in dense forest. Petals 
yellowish, whole plant brownish, with purplish tinge; a very brittle, suc- 
culent, leafless saprophyte.” 
The genus Gastrodia has not, heretofore, been recorded as a native of 
the Philippines. 
KUHLHASSELTIA J. J. Smith. 
Kuhihasseltia Merrillii Schlechter in Fedde Report. 9 (1911) 437. 
Haemaria Merrillii Ames in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 316; 
Orchidaceae 3 (1908) 21, pi. 30. 
Doctor Schlechter, loc. cit., refers to J. J. Smith’s recently established 
genus Kuhihasseltia (1910) the species which, with hesitation, I described 
under the genus Haemaria, in my paper on the orchids collected on Mount 
Halcon. As stated in “Orchidaceae”* the genera which constitute the 
group to which Haemaria belongs are dilferentiated by means of characters 
which are not only of questionable value, in my opinion, but which are 
extremely perplexing when it is attempted to place in its proper position 
a new species of the Neottiinae-Physureae. As defined by J. J. Smith 
the genus Kuhihasseltia includes Haemaria Merrillii and Doctor Schlechter 
is undoubtedly correct in his views expressed in Fedde’s “Repertorium.” 
But what do we gain at the present time by multiplying the genera of 
this puzzling section of the Orchidaceae ? It would seem that an exhaus- 
tive monograph of the Neottiinae-Physureae should be produced before the 
number of genera is inordinately increased. 
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