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A tall plant 70 to 90 cm tall, glabrous. Lower sheaths narrow, obtuse, 

 apiculate. Leaves linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, attenuate-acuminate, 

 with a long tail, the base acute, glabrous except for the tip, sometimes 

 ciliolate and hairy, 10 to 25 cm long, 1.5 to 3.5 cm wide; ligule 2 mm 

 long, truncate, glabrous. Panicle pyramidal, somewhat nodding, 8 to 

 10 cm long. Flowers yellow, sessile and on peduncles 2 to 3 cm long. 

 Calyx shortly toothed, 4 mm long, turbinate. Corolla-tube 1.2 to 1.3 cm 

 long. Staminodes lanceolate, acute. Lip short, broad, shortly bilobed. 

 Anther with two short lunulate wings. 



Bunuan Island, near Mindanao (Montatw 203 1 ) , in Herb. Mas. Paris. Also 

 found in Cambodia. 



The figure resembles 0. Merrillii, but that species has white, not yellow flowers. 



2. G. parviflora Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1827) 115; K. Sebum. In Engl. Bot. 

 Jahrb. 27 (1899) 330; Pflanzenreich 1. c. 146. 



Stem slender, about 40 cm tall. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 attenuate, the base acute or rounded, glabrous, 30 cm long, 2 to 3 cm 

 wide. Panicle weak and lax, 8 to 9 cm long, the branches few, slender, 

 the lower ones 3 cm long. Bracts linear-oblong, obtuse, 1 to 3 mm long, 

 persistent. Calyx funnel-shaped, 3-toothed, one tooth blunt, the other 

 two mucronate. Corolla-tube slender, thrice as long, the lobes oblong, 

 4 mm long, concave, yellow. Staminodes widely linear-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, a little longer. Lip subcuneate, bilobed, 5 mm long. Anther- 

 spurs rising from a little above the base, subulate, curved. 



Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, (Haenke) : Province of Albay, Mount Mayon, 

 Bur. Sci. 2910 Mearns: Province of Tayabas, Sampaloc, (Warburg) : Province of 

 Rizal, Bosoboso, Merrill 2782, 2783. 



A small weak plant remarkable for its yellow flowers. It has a tendency to 

 have all the flowers secund, that is, turned upwards on one side. Endemic. 



3. G. campsophylla K. Schum. in Pflanzenreich 1. c. 145. 



of. parviflora Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 152; K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. 

 jahrb. 27 (1899) 330, non Presl. 



A slender plant about 50 to 60 cm tall. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, 

 acuminate, with a long point, glabrous, narrowed a little abruptly at the 

 base and shortly petioled, 9 to 15 cm long, 1 to 2 cm wide; petiole about 

 3 mm long; ligule very short, rounded, truncate, quite glabrous. Panicle 

 9 cm long, lax, with slender branches 3 cm long. Bracts linear-oblong, 

 rounded, glandular-dotted, 2 mm long. Flowers white, on short articula- 

 tions. Calyx funnel-shaped, with three, equal, ovate lobes, keeled and 

 shortly mucronate, glandular-dotted. Corolla-tube slender, three times 

 as long as the calyx, the lobes oblong, the upper one hooded, all glandular- 

 dotted. Staminodes linear, longer, obtuse, glandular-dotted and pubes- 

 cent. Lip rather deeply bilobed, the lobes linear, obtuse, glandular- 

 dotted. Anther strongly glandular-dotted on the back, the spurs linear, 

 acuminate, curved, much longer than the anther. Fruit rather large, 



1 Specimens cited in parenthesis not seen. 



