NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
a rounded mentum, triangular, subcaudate at least attenua¬ 
ted into a slender tip, 3-nerved, pellucid when dry. Dorsal 
sepal 6 mm. long, lanceolate, acuminate, attenuated into 
a slender tip, concave at base, 3-nerved, pellucid. Petals 
3.5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, 
acute, glandular-ciliate on the margin, 1-nerved. Labellum 
about 2.5 mm. long, mobile at the tip of the upcurved col¬ 
umn-foot, apical third sharply deflexed, fleshy and conspic¬ 
uously glandular-pubescent, base rounded, margins erect, 
that is, the basal portion of the labellum is duplicative. 
Column 1.5 mm. long, produced into a foot 2 mm. long, at 
the summit, — on each side, — prolonged into an erect 
linear-triangular stelidium. 
In habit similar to Bulbophyllum exile Ames, but with 
longer scapes and a glandular-pubescent labellum. 
Philippines, Mindanao, Bukidnon Subprovince, M. 
Ramos & G.Edano Bur. Sei. 38582, July 9, 1920. In damp 
forest on trees. Flowers yellow and white with purple 
labellum. 4000 feet altitude. (Type in Herb. Ames No. 
22855.) 
Telipogon Lankesteri Ames sp. nov. Radices crassae, 
repentes. Folia ut videtur decidua. Caules inflorescentiae 
erecti, ramosi, multiflori, gracilcs. Flores parvi, inter se 
satis distantes, bracteae breves. Sepala similia, uninervia, 
ovato-lanceolata, acuta. Petala minute ciliata, ovata, acuta, 
trinervia, purpureo-tincta. Labellum oblongum, acutum, 
trinervium, margine retrorso-ciliatum, toto disco glanduloso- 
pubescenti. Gynostemium abbreviatum, longe barbatum. 
Roots very coarse, spreading. Leaves deciduous, absent 
at flowering time. Flowering stems about 2 dm. high, 
branching, scarcely 1 mm. thick, green, with several alter¬ 
nating abbreviated scarious bracts on the part below the 
branches, each flowering stem two or more branched, the 
branches up to 12 cm. long, wiry, many-flowered. Bracts 
of the inflorescence scale-like, triangular, acute, about 1 mm. 
long. Flowers 5-8 mm. apart. Pedicels 2 mm. long, ovary 
about 3 mm. long. Lateral sepals 2.5 mm. long, 1.25 mm. 
wide at about the middle, ovate-lanceolate, tapering grad- 
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