NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
front passing into strongly curved submarginal keels. Col¬ 
umn to the tip of the excised rostellum 2 mm. long, produced 
at base into a conspicuous foot. 
Allied to Appendicula maquilingensis Ames, from which 
it differs in the elongated linear floral bracts and in the 
erose-dentate margin of the labellum. 
Philippines, Luzon, Rizal Province, Mount Iriga, M. 
Ramos, Bureau of Science 41941C, February 16, 1923. On 
trees in dense forest. 3000 feet altitude. (Type in Philip. 
Bur. Sci. Duplicate type in Herb. Ames No. 25933.) 
Appendicula polyantha Ames sp. nov. Caules elon- 
gati, foliosi, in axillis foliorum paene usque ad basim flori- 
geri. Folia disticha, inter se satis distantia, anguste lanceo- 
lata, in sicco chartacea, apice bilobulata apiculo interjecto. 
Vaginae foliorum caulem omnino obtegentes, persistentes, 
demum scariosae. Pedunculi cum racemo abbreviate 
paucifloro quam folia multo breviores, ex axillis foliorum 
orientes. Flores plus minusve quinque, albidi. Bracteae 
inflorescentiae lineari-lanceolatae. Pedicelli multo abbre- 
viati, subobsoleti. Ovarium minute verrucosum. Sepala 
lateralia triangularia, acuta, mentum prominens formantia. 
Sepalum dorsale anguste ellipticum, valde concavum, ob- 
tusum, extus prope basim verruculosum. Petala elliptico- 
oblonga, obtusa, trinervia. Labellum supra medium in 
laminam orbicularem expansum, infra medium columnae 
pedis marginibus affixum, saccum obtusum formans. Discus 
prope basim laminae labelli pilis glandulosis ornatus. Saccus 
e sepalis lateralibus non protrudens, intus in pariete antico 
valde carinatus. Columna brevis, in pedem conspicue pro- 
ducta. Rostellum breviter excisum. 
Stems up to 60 cm. or more long, about 5 mm. thick 
near the base, terete, concealed by the sheathing bases of the 
distichous leaves. Leaves twenty-five or more, up to 8.5 
cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. wide, narrowly lanceolate, tapering 
gradually to the minutely bilobed tip, with a slender apicule 
between the lobes, articulated at base to persistent sheaths. 
Peduncles with the raceme up to 1.5 cm. long, rather stout, 
much shorter than the leaves, produced from the axils of 
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