NP:W or NOTliWORTIIY ORCFIIDS 
bracts, covered with a whitish glandular pubescence above. 
Raceme up to 7 cm. long, loosely llowered, rachis pubescent. 
Floral bracts about equal to the shortly pedicellate ovary, 
lanceolate, glandulose. Ovary about 9 mm. long, densely 
glandidar. Lateral sepals 6 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, lanceo¬ 
late, obtuse, minutely cucullate at the tip, sparsely glandu¬ 
lar on the outer surface, mid-nerve slightly prominent and 
conspicuous in dried specimens. Dorsal sepal 6 mm. long, 
similar to the laterals, strongly concave, arching forward 
over the column. Petals 6 mm. long, up to 1 mm. wide, 
spatulate, obtuse, with a conspicuous mid-nerve. Labellum 
7 mm. long, ventricose-saccate at the base, with the sac 
distinctly bilobed, ecallose, 5-nerved, the lobes .75 mm. 
long, blunt, terminal part of the labellum expanded into a 
suborbicular lamina which is 2 mm. long and nearly 3 mm. 
wide, (iolumn 4.5 mm. long. 
A near ally of E. Wenzelii Ames and E. Weberi Ames, 
from which it differs in having the sac of the labellum 
ecallose (cf. Ames Orch. 7 (1922) 66). 
PiiTi.ipPiNiiS, Luzon, Kalinga Province, Balbalan, George 
Boettcher ,s’. n., March 18. Flower reddish brown. 1000 
meters altitude. (Typk in Herb. Ames No. 26320.) 
Adenostylis philippinensis Ames sp. nov. Ilerba 
terrestris e rhizomate subterraneo, infra medium foliosa, 
foliis inter se satis distantibns. Folia bene lanceolata, acnta, 
verisimiliter reticulato-nervosa, basi in petiolum contracta, 
petiolis basi caulem breviter vaginantibus. Caulis supra fo¬ 
lia albido-glandulosus, bracteis ascendentibus infra medium 
tnbulatis lanceolatis instructns. Racemus gracilis, multi- 
florus, (loribus inler se satis distantibus. Sepala lateralia 
lanceolata, acuminata, subacuta, extus longe et sparse 
glandnlosa. Scpalum dorsale simile, valde fornicato-con- 
cavum, extus glandulosum. Pel ala sepalo dorsali agglu- 
tinata, lanceolata, obtusa, margine anteriore prope basim 
protuberant!. Labellum ventricoso-saccatum, antice in 
laminam subreniformem vel triangularem expansum, intus 
bicallosum, callis valde curvatis vel hamatis. Columna 
abbrcviata. 
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