NEW OR NOTEWORTHY OI^CIRDS 
several ascending bracts, 5-10 mm. long. Raceme slender, 
3-4.5 cm. long, ten or more flowered, glandular-pubescent. 
Bracts of the inflorescence up to 7 mm. long, triangular- 
lanceolate, smooth, exceeding the shortly pedicellate ovary. 
Ovary smooth. Lateral sepals 2-3 mm. long, 1.25-2 mm. 
wide, ovate, obtuse, 1-nerved, smooth, concealing the saccate 
base of the labellum. Dorsal sepal about 2.5 mm. long, 
concave. Petals 2 mm. long, adhering lightly to the upper 
sepal, somewhat spatulate, obtuse, 1-nerved. Labellum 
2.5 mm. long, strongly saccate, with several clavate glands 
within, produced in front into a more or less expanded 
lamina which is obtuse and semielliptical. Column about 
2 mm. long, with the rostellum deeply and broadly excised. 
Allied to Epipactis Ramosii Ames comb. nov. (Good- 
yera Ramosii Ames in Phil. .Journ. Sci. 8 (1913) 409), but 
with smaller flowers and a different labellum. [Fig. ,?.] 
Philippines, Luzon, Sorsogon Province, Irosin, Mount 
Bulusan, A. D. E. Elmer 14884, November 1916. (Type in 
Herb. Ames No. 26302.) 
Hetaeria leytensis Ames sp. nov. Herba terrestris. 
Caulis herbaceus, simplex, ascendens, basi repens, interne 
glaber, foliosus, superne breviter albido-villosus, foliis 
squamiformibus vaginantibus praeditus. Folia triangulari- 
lanceolata, acuminata, variegata, basi in petiolum ab- 
breviatum canaliculatum ima vaginantem attenuata. Ra- 
cemus erectus, plus minusve gracilis. Ovarium glandulosum. 
Sepala lateralia ovato-lanceolata, subacuta. Sepalum dorsale 
basi valde concavum, supra medium triangulare, obtusum. 
Petala inaequaliter ovato-lanceolata, subacuta, sepalo dor¬ 
sal! adhaerentia. Labellum valde concavum vel ventricosum, 
basim versus cum tuberculis recurvis duobus instructum, 
supra medium utrinque incrassatum deinde valde con- 
strictum, in apicem triangularem productum. Columna 
erecta, rostello valde bifido, utrinque stigmatifera. Anthera 
sagittata. 
Terrestrial herb up to 20 cm, tall from a creeping 
rhizome. Roots 2-4 cm. long, hairy. Stems smooth below, 
leafy, pubescent above, with bract-like leaves which de- 
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