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oblonga, valde obtusa, 1-nervia. Labellum obtusum, lineari- 

 obiongum sensim supra medium dilatatum, margine ciliolato, 

 3-nervium, ad apicem verruculosum. 



The flowers are described by the collector as follows: "The 

 outer parts greenish, the inner parts flesh color." The labellum is 

 quite simple, almost linear-oblong, but gradually widened toward 

 the apex from about the middle, the margin of the basal half is 

 minutely ciliolate. The tip of tho lip is irregularly thickened, 

 especially so near the margin so that it appears warty. The 

 general aspect of the plant recalls D. atropurpureum, which is a 

 smaller species with a very different lip. 



Luzon: Province of Tayabas, Lucban, May, 1907, A. D. E. 

 Elmer, 9249. 



Small tufts rather loosely hanging from limbs of trees in 

 woods at 25C0 feet above sea level. Stems and leaves not rigid 

 but strongly coriaceous, the leaves equally dark green on both 

 sides; flowers rather rigid, the outer parts greenish, the inner 

 parts flesh color; capsules green, hard, smooth. Rare! 



Dendrobium lunatum Lindl. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. Ill; 4. 



Specimens of this rare species from the Island of Palawan are 

 here described. Stems 6 — 25 cm. tall, rigid, caespitose, pendent 

 from the lower side of inclining tree trunks, complanate, greenish. 

 Leaves rigid, up to 3 cm. long, 6 mm. wide, lanceolate, acute, 

 obHquely ascending, complanate, dark green, tips pointing upward 

 in the direction of the stem. Flowers subtended by dull brown 

 bracts, arising at the base of the leaves, lateral. Peduncles as many 

 as eleven. Lateral sepals fleshy, oblong-quadrate, obtuse, about 

 3 mm. long, forming a blunt mentum 2 mm. long. Upper sepal 

 elliptical, 3 mm. long, obtuse. Petals about 2.5 mm. long, oblong, 

 lanceolate, subacute, 1-nerved, with several oblique lateral nerves. 

 Labellum 3-4 mm. long, unguiculate, cuneate-flabellate or cuneate- 

 oblanceolate, anterior margin slightly crenulate. Callus very 

 fleshy, bilobed at the apex, cuneate, extending nearly to the 

 apex of the lip. Sepals cream colored with purplish bases, petals 

 and labellum white marked at the base with purple. 



Island of Palawan: Province of Palawan, Puerto Princesa 

 (Mt. Pulgar), March, 1911, A. D. E. Elmer, 12764. 



