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GOODYERA R. Br. 
Goodyera sp. 
Flowers' too much withered for analysis. 
Leaves slightly mottled, i. c., the veins and veinlets white, above, inflorescence 
old, Mount Halcon, Nov. 1G, 1906, Merrill (No. 5512). 
MYRMECHIS Bl. 
Myrmechis gracilis Bl. FI. Jav. Orch. G4, t. 21, f. 2 (1858 ). — Anoectochilus 
graoilis Bl. Bijdr. 413 (1825). 
Mount Halcon, June 15-27, 1906, M. L. Merritt (Nos. 4432, 4460). 
Java, Japan. 
HAEM ARIA Lindl. 
Haemaria Merrillii Ames sp. nov. 
Plants erect or ascending, up to 3 dm. high, leafy at the base. Leaves 
5-7, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 1.5-3 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. wide. Peduncle 
pubescent, provided with about 5 closely appressed, lanceolate, scarious 
1-2 cm. long bracts. Flowers whitish, in a rather dense, short raceme. 
Floral bracts exceeding the ovaries, narrowly lanceolate, margin ciliate. 
Lateral sepals triangular-lanceolate, obtuse, 1-nerved, about 6 mm. long, 
slightly exceeding 2 mm. in width at the base. Upper sepal adhering 
lightly to the petals, lanceolate, l-nervecl, about 6 mm. long, slightly 
exceeding 2 mm. in width. Labellum about 5 mm. long, broadly ungui- 
culate from a short, round, saccate base; margins of the claw erect 
(involute?) above; the claw is dilated into a transversely oblong, retuse, 
mucronate lamina with a’crenate or bluntly-toothed margin; claw about 
3 mm. long ; lamina 4 mm. wide, 2 mm. long. Within the sac 2 roundish 
sessile calli are situated. 
Terrestrial in mossy forest at 4,300 ft. alt. on Mount Halcon, flowers white, 
odorless, calyx greenish, Nov. 13, 1906, Merrill (Nos. 5840, type, and 5819). 
HYLOPHILA Lindl. 
Hylophila rubra Ames Orchidacese, fasc. 2 (1907) ined. 
At 4,300 ft. alt. on Mount Halcon, flowers brownish red, June 15-27, 1906, 
M. L. Merritt (No. 4378). 
TROPIDIA Lindl. 
Tropidia mindorensis Ames sp. nov. 
Plants about 4 dm. tall, slender, graceful, branching. Stems about 
2 mm. thick, clothed by the sheathing bases of the numerous, alternate, 
linear-lanceolate, acuminate, acute, 3-5-nerved, 10-15 cm. long, 1-2 cm. 
wide leaves. Racemes leaf-opposed, short, few-flowered, not exceeding 
3 cm. long. Peduncle clothed with imbricating, nervose bracts. Pedicels 
comparatively stout, about 5 mm. long. Flowers yellowish white, tinged 
with green, odorless, about 1.2 cm. long. Lateral sepals about 1.2 cm. 
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