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1 cm. long, those of a flower from the co-type are approximately 

 8 mm. long. The lip of the Negros plant is 1 cm. long, while the 

 lip of the co-type is 6 mm. long in a floTver boiled out for re-study. 

 The lip is pandurate, the apical portion irregularly dentate, near 

 the margin of the basal portion on each side a long slender lamella 

 extends diagonally toward the middle of the disc, vanishing within 

 1 mm. of the median line; toward the base of the lip these lamellae 

 curve abruptly inwards and join in the basal transverse callus 

 which in this species is highly developed. Undoubtedly there 

 is a much wider range of variation than is accounted for in the 

 original description of P. malindangense. Mr. Elmer described the 

 inflorescence as follows: "Descending, the floral bracts green, 

 flowers subpendulous, soft, azure blue, especially the terminal 

 portions of the various parts." The collector of the type described 

 the flowers as dark blue. In the original description the character- 

 istic lanceolate-cymbiform floral bracts were described as 8.5 mm. 

 long, in the Negros specimens the longest bract measures 1.4 cm. 

 long. The stems which bear the racemes are defoliated except 

 for a pair of leaves at the summit. It would seem, then, that the 

 tendency to produce the racemes on stems from which the leaves 

 have fallen, is, as suggested in the orginal mention of the species, 

 a characteristic one. In the specimens from Negros one raceme 

 is about 5.5 cm. long. 



Island of Negros: Province of Negros Oriental, Dumaguete 

 (Cuernos Mts.), March, 1908, A. D. E. Elmer, 9543. 



Upon moss covered tree trunks at 6000 feet above sea level. 

 Stems 1 to 3 from the same root, descending, green, quite flexible; 

 leaves ascending, quite thin, darker green above, slightly recurved, 

 twisted at the base; inflorescence descending, the floral bracts 

 green, flowers subpendulous and soft. 



Podochilus negrosianus sp. nov. 



Herba epiphytica. Plantae caespitosae, elatae. Caules tere- 

 tes, circiter 7.5 dm. longi, foliosi, circiter 5 mm. in crassitudine. 

 Folia disticha, prope medium caulium 8 cm. longa, 2 cm. lata; 

 oblongi-lanceolata, chartacea, ad apicem inaequaliter bilobata, 

 nervo intermedio in apiculum producto, ad basim vaginantia, 

 7-nervia. Inflorescentiae laterales et terminales, foliis breviores 

 + 4 cm. longae. Pedunculi bracteis imbricatis, arete vaginantibus 



