NEW OH NOl'EWOH'I’HY ORCHIDS 
Terrestrial herb 24-28 cm. tall, from a creeping rhi¬ 
zome. Plant leafy below the middle. Leaves about 1.5 cm. 
apart, alternate, 2.5-5.5 cm. long, up to 1.8 cm. wide below 
the middle, membranaceous, lanceolate, acute, contracted 
abruptly into a short petiole 1 cm. long, which at its base 
loosely sheaths the stem. Stem above the leaves sparsely 
covered with weak, whitish glandular hairs and provided 
with about four erect or ascending lanceolate bracts which 
are shortly tubular at the base. Raceme elongating during 
a long flowering period, 6-4 2 cm. long, flowers 3-6 mm. 
apart on the glandular rachis. Bracts of the inflorescence 
7-10 mm. long, lanceolate, acuminate, sparsely glandular. 
Lateral sepals 3 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, lanceolate, sub¬ 
acute with a cucullate apex, sparsely glandular on the outer 
surface with the glands weak and elongated. Dorsal sepal 
similar to the laterals, strongly concave. Petals 3 mm. 
long, about 1 mm. wide, lanceolate, adherent to the upper 
sepal, the anterior margin protuberant near the base, mid¬ 
nerve conspicuous in dried specimens. Labellum 3 mm. 
long, ventricose-saccate, narrowed in front, the anterior 
wall densely glandular, apical portion expanded into a 
subreniform or triangular plate which is more or less acute, 
.5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, minutely glandular; sac 1 mm. 
deep with a strongly curved or hamate appendage on each 
side within. Column 2.5 mm. long, stout, with the rostellum 
deeply excised, the rostellar arms distinctly spatulate. 
Allied to Adenoslylis Elmeri Ames. 
Philippines, Leyte, C. A. Wenzel 0375, Alarch 28, 1913. 
4'errestrial in forest, sepals green, petals white, leaf thin. 
60 meters altitude. (Type in Herb. Ames No. 15305): 
Wenzel 0224, July 31, 1913. Terrestrial in forest. Flowers 
white. 60 meters altitude. 
Adenostylis zamboangensis Ames sp. nov. Rhizoma 
longe repens, ad nodos radicans. Radices crassac. villosae. 
Caulis ascendens, erectus, foliosus, foliis inter se satis dis- 
tantibus, basi petioli caulem amplectentibus. Folium im- 
pariter lanceolatum, acuminatum, acutum, basi rotundatum 
in petiolum gracilem contractum. Pedunculus vcl pars 
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