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there is no reason for considering that more than one species 
is represented; in fact the description of V. majaijensis was 
inserted in the second edition of the Flora de Filipinas after 
Blanco’s death, having been found among his papers, and may 
not have been intended by him for publication. See Flora de 
Filipinas ed. 2 (1845) p. 589. 
Illustrative specimen from Angat, Bulacan Province, Luzon, 
December, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 665). 
OBERONIA Lindley 
Cymbidium fiavescens Llanos Frag. Pl. Filip. (1851) 96 (sp. nov.); F.-Vill. 
& Naves in Blanco FI. sade ed. 3, 4* (1880) 74=7 OBERONIA IRIDI- 
FOLIA Lindl. 
Naves reduced this to Cleisostoma amabile T. & B., with which 
Llanos’s description presents nothing in common. It is possibly 
the same as Oberonia iridifolia Lindl.; at least this species con- 
forms best with the description among all the low-country 
epiphytic orchids known to me.. Llanos’s specimens were from 
San Isidro, Bulacan Province, Luzon, where the plants grew 
on old bamboos. 
GEODORUM Jackson 
Arethusa glutinosa Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 641 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 
446; ed. 3, 3 (1879) 38, t. 429 bis=GEODORUM NUTANS (Pres!) 
Ames (G. semicristatum Lindl.). 
This species is common and widely distributed in the Philip- 
pines, growing in thickets and open places at low altitudes. 
There is no doubt as to the identity of Blanco’s species, but 
Presl’s specific name is the older. 
Illustrative specimen from near Manila, Luzon, October, 1914 
(Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 511). 
DENDROBIUM Swartz 
Epidendrum equitans Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 645 (sp. nov.) ; ed. 2 (1845) 
449; ed. 3, 3 (1879) 44 (non Dendrobium equitans Kranzl.) =DENDRO- 
BIUM APOROIDES (Lindl.) comb. nov. (Eria aporoides Lindl., Den- 
drobium brongniartianum Kranzl.). 
The reduction of Blanco’s species to Fria aporoides Lindl. was 
made by Naves, which, as Dendrobium aporoides, is the correct 
disposition of it. Blanco’s description is excellent and among 
all known Philippine orchids applies only to this one, which, 
moreover, is common and widely distributed in the Archipelago. 
Blanco’s specific name, the oldest one for the species, is in- 
validated in Dendrobium by the entirely different Dendrobium 
equitans Krinzl. 
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