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virides. Sepala lateralia oblongi-Ianceolata, acuta, 2.5 mm longa. 
Sepalum dorsale simile, 1 mm latum, uninervium, Petala spa- 
thulata, subacuta, Oninervia, 2.5 mm longa, 0.75 mm lata. La- 
bellum 3-lobatum, 2.5 mm longum, lobi laterales erect!, valde 
falcati, acuti, 0.75 mm longi, lobus medius oblongus, ad apieem 
rotundatus, 1.5 mm longus, circiter 1 mm latus. Columna cylin- 
dracea infra clinandrium. 
Leyte, Dagami, C. A. Wenzel 20, December 21, 1912, on trees, 60 m 
above sea level. 
This species resembles Oberonia cylindrica Lindl. from which it is easily 
distinguishable by the entire lobes of the strongly 3-Iobed labellum. 
PODOCHILINAE 
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Doctor R. Schlechter in "Die Orchidaceen von Deutsch-Neu-Guinea" 
(1: 324) proposes a new arrangement of the species composing the group 
of the Podochilinae which departs radically from his earlier arrangement 
published in 1900 in Mem. Herb. Boiss. 21 (1900) 1-78. In the earlier work 
Podochilus included all the species which were at that time referable, chiefly 
by the number of pollen masses, either to Podochilus or Appendicula, 
groups which were distinguishable from the other genera of the Podochili- 
nae by the column being produced into a foot. The new arrangement 
presents five genera, two of which, namely Podochilus and Appendicula, 
are found widely distributed in the Philippine Islands, the former composed 
lY^' ^^^ ^^^*^'" ^^ ^""^ sections, four of which contain Philippine species. 
The reasons for the new arrangement are the result of recent and exten- 
sive studies of living material in the field. 
Herbarium material of the genera Podochilus and Appendicula is, as a 
rule, most unsatisfactory, the flowers either lacking or when present fre- 
quently bemg without the pollen masses. As originally conceived the 
chief distinction between Podochilus and Appendicula was the number of 
pollen masses; 4 in Podochilus, 6 in Appendicula, 
Although Dr. Schlechter has, in his recent work, given weighty reasons 
to uphold his distribution of the species into genera and sections, the lines 
Of demarcation may not, as new species are described, prove so well defined 
in the future as they appear to be at present. His sections in my opinion 
are unnecessarily artificial, and if convenience is considered, his change 
of view as to generic limitations will not simplify the labors of those who 
attempt to follow him. 
That Podochilus and Appendicula constitute two well defined genera is 
the opmion of two careful students of the orchid family who have arrived 
at their conclusion after an examination of fresh material. J. J. Smith 
^uT.-\ ^'! O^chideen von Java," and now Schlechter in his exhaustive 
Die Orchidaceen von Deutsch-Neu-Guinea" both agree in upholding Podo^ 
chxlus and Appendicula. 
The following arrangement of the Philippine species is based on Schlech- 
ter's treatment. 
Pollinia 4 
Pollinia 6 
Podochilus Blume 
Appendicula Blume 
