NEW OH NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
crease in size. Leaves 5.5-7 cm. long, up lo 2.2 cm. wide 
near the base, triangular-lanceolate, acuminate, with cana¬ 
liculate petioles which sheath the stem. Leaf-like bracts 
1-2 cm. long, closely appressed. Raceme 3-4 cm. or more 
long, slender. Bracts of the raceme equaling or exceeding 
the flowers. Ovary and abbreviated pedicel about 8 mm. 
long, glandular. Lateral sepals about 3 mm. long, ovate- 
lanceolate, subacute, membranaceous. Dorsal sepal about 
3 mm. long, strongly concave at the base, somewhat ovate 
in outline when spread out, obtuse. Petals agglutinated to 
the dorsal sepal, 3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide below the middle, 
unequally ovate, acute or subacute. Labellum 3 mm. long, 
ventricose-saccate, with two hooked appendages within near 
the base, one on each side, thickened in front near the an¬ 
terior margin of the sac where it is narrowed into an isthmus; 
apical portion of the labellum triangular, .75 mm. long and 
broad. Column about 2 mm. long with the rostellum deeply 
bifid. Anther sagittate. 
Allied to Ilelaeria micranlha BL, from which it differs in 
the foliage, in the petals and in the shape of the labellum. 
PiiiLippiNiiS, Leyte, Mount Abucayan, G. Edaho, 
Bureau of Science 42081 h, January 20, 1923. On stony slopes 
in forest. 900 feet aHitude. (Type in Herb. Bur. Sci. 
Duppicatp: typi; in Herb. Ames No. 26073.) 
Myrmechis perpusilla Ames sp. non. Ilerba per- 
pusilla, foliosa, e rhizomate subterraneo. Folia alterna, 
petiolata, patentia, ovata, acuta, basi rotundata, superiora 
magis approximata, pctiolis basi caulem breviter vaginan- 
tibus. Pedunculus terminalis, erectus, pubescens. Bractea 
solitaria, scariosa, margine glandulosa, ovarium ad basim 
cingcns. Flores mediocres, verisimiliter albidi. Pedicellus 
sparse glandulosus. Sepala lateralia anguste ovato-lanceo- 
lata vel triangulari-lanceolata, obtusa, uninervia, basi ven- 
Iricosa labellum interne amplectentia eique subtus paulum 
adnata. Sepalum dorsale cum petalis agglutinatum, for- 
nicato-ascendens. Petala rhombico-lanceolata, uninervia, 
obtusa. Labellum e basi scrotiformi-inllata medio con- 
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