NEW OR NOTEWORTHY OliCHIDS 
strictum, apice in limbum brevem transverse dilatalum ex¬ 
pansum. Saccus labelli glandulis duabus intus ornatus. 
Columna abbreviata. 
A diminutive herb 3-6 cm. tall, from a slender creeping 
rhizome. Leaves alternate, 6-10 mm. long, 4-7.5 mm. wide, 
ovate, acute, contracted at base into a short petiole which 
sheaths the stem. Stems above the uppermost leaf glandular- 
pubescent. Flower terminal, subtended by a scarious, 
glandular bract which is subequal to the ovary. Pedicel 
slender, sparsely glandular, 6 mm. long (with the ovary). 
Lateral sepals, 6.5 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide near the base, 
ovate-lanceolate or triangular-lanceolate, hardly acute, 
l-nerved, membranaceous, ventricose at the base. Dorsal 
sepal 5.5 mm. long, subacute, ventricose at the base, l-nerved. 
Petals lightly adherent to the dorsal sepal, about 5.5 mm. 
long, rhombic-lanceolate, about 2.5 mm. wide near the 
middle, membranaceous, l-nerved. Labellum 6.5 mm. 
long, strongly ventricose at the base, constricted above 
the ventricose base into a narrow isthmus which is 3 mm. 
long with involute margins, then expanded transversely into 
an oblong limb which is 4.5 mm. wide and 1.5 mm. long; 
ventricose base 3 mm. long, 2 mm. deep, with a quadrate 
complanate gland on each side within. Column about 2.5 
mm. long, with an elongated tooth-like process on each side 
below the stigmatic lobe. 
A close ally of the .Javan Alyrmeclus gracilis Bl., from 
which species it differs in the form of the petals and in 
having longer processes on the column. 
Philippines, Luzon, Benguet Province, Pauai, E. B. 
Copeland 124, May 10, 1.913. (Type in Herb. Bur. Sci. 
Duplicatp: type in Herb. Ames No. 26319.) 
Tropidia Robinsonii Ames sp. nov. Ilerba terrestris, 
erecta, foliosa, nonnihil simplex, plerumque ramosa. Caules 
graciles, teretes, folds in vaginis tubulosis nervosis sessilibus. 
Folia linearia, acuta, superiora plus minusve conferta, in- 
feriora inter se satis distantia, alterna, graminea, oblique 
ascendentia, demum recurvata. Inflorescentia terminalis. 
Racemus parvus, e vaginis foliorum terminalium crumpens. 
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