668 AMES. 



Podochilus Cumingii Schlechter in Fedde's Repertorinm 3 (l!l()7) 19. 



I refer here specimens gathered in Mindanao and Luzon. The mentum formed 

 by the lateral sepals is deeply saccate. The lahellum is lanceolate and ;;( I lie base 

 where it joins the slender claw produced into a Bubquadrate appendage. This 

 appendage is truncate and not at all emarginate or bitid. Hooker's description 

 Of /'. miorophyllus Lindl. in the "Flora of British India" agrees in detail with 

 ms material except for the height of the plants which in Hooker's material is 

 greater than in mine. Bchlechter refers the species described by 1 looker to /\ 

 sciuroidcs. I'. s( iuroiilrs appears to he closely related to /'. Cumingii. In his 

 monograph of the Podochilinae Bchlechter describes the lahellum of /'. Cumingii as 

 5-nerved. My material has the lahelhim :i nerved with the lateral nerves branched. 

 Bchlechter describes the lahellum of /'. aoiuroidea as 3-nerved with the laterals 

 branched. /'. aciuroides is a taller species than /'. Cumingii. In the specimens 

 from Mindanao the stems are rarely more than 1 dm long. For the present it 

 seems hest to adopt for the Philippine species the name proposed by Bchlechter. 



Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mary Strong Clemens s. »., Sep 

 tember, 1907. Luzon, Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, Copeland s. n., 

 November 2.'5, 1907. in moss on trees, Mowers while: Bur. Sci. lf,7S I'o.ruorlhy, 

 October 17, 1906: Province of Pampanga, Mount Arayat, \hirill ',.>(',(), September 

 15, 1905, epiphyte on mossy trees at an altitude of 820 m. 



Although the flowers are described as white by the collectors, they appear, 

 when dried, to have been tinged with purple. 



Schlechter, in his monograph, does not use the name P. Cumingii. In the 

 "Repertorium" I. c, however, he asserts that the Philippine plant referred to 

 P. Zollinger* in bis monograph constitutes a new species for which he proposes 

 the name /'. Cumingii, 



Podochilus plumosus sp. nov. 



Planta parrula, glabra, plumosa, simplex. Folia disticba, linearis, 

 circa 1 cm longa, 1 mm lata, acuta, approximate. Flares terminates et 

 la/rrales. Pedunculus folio brcvior. Bracieae inflorescentiae imbricatae. 

 8epdla lateralia lanceolata, acuta, L-nervia, circa 3 mm longa. Sepalum 

 dorsale ovato-lanceolatum, acutum, 1-nervium. Petaia oblanccolnta w\ 

 elliptica, subaeuta vol oblusa, l-nervia, 2 mm longa. 1 mm lata. La- 

 hellum rhombicum, ad basim sagittatum, 3 mm longum, 2 mm latum. 

 Rosiellum quadridentatum. Capsula <i mm longa. 



P. plumosus is a graceful species, the leafy stems of which have the appearance 

 of feathers and suggest the leaves of Taxodium dislichum. The (lowers are 

 produced singly on short peduncles which are almost completely hidden by scarious 

 imbricating bracts. The lahellum is rhombic above the sagittate base and hardly 

 acute at the apex. /'. plumosus belongs doubtfully to § Apista. Doubtfully, be 

 cause according to Sehlechter's remarks § Apista is always characterized by hav- 

 ing the intlorescence terminal. Our species is hardly a member of § Append irula 

 and probably forms a transition between it and § Apista, having all the characters 

 of the latter group and in addition a lateral as well as a terminal inflorescence. 



From P. Cumingii, P. plumosus is readily distinguished by the more slender, 

 longer leaves and by the very different inflorescence, as well as by the position 

 of the flowers. 



Luzon, Province of Zambales, Mount Tapulao, Bur. Sci. 4763 Pamos, Decern 

 ber, 1907, Bur. Sci. 8986 Curran (flowered in orchid house, Manila, March, 1908) : 

 Province of Tayabas (Infanta), Whitford 803, September 11, 1904, on rocks and 

 trees along the Tinuan River, altitude about 80 m. 



