NOTES ON PHILIPPINE ORCHIDS 
BY 
Oakes AMES 
Renanthera elongata Lindley, Gen. & Sp. Orch. 
Pl. (1838) 218. 
Renanthera matutina Lindley in Bot. Reg. 29 (1843) 
t. 41, non Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. PI. 
Renanthera micrantha Blume, Rumphia 4 (1848) 60. 
In Ames Orchidaceae 5 (1915) 224, Renanthera elon- 
gata Lindl. was cited as a native of the Philippines on 
the authority of Lindley who referred to specimens col- 
lected by Cuming. At that time no material from the 
Philippines had been seen. In Merrill’s Enumeration of 
Philippine Flowering Plants 1, fase. 4 (1925) 428, Renan- 
thera elongatawas excluded from the flora,as after twenty 
years of intensive exploration no material had been ob- 
served. 
Recently (December 1933), there has been received 
from Mrs. Kk. B. Day fragmentary material of a Renan- 
thera collected on a small island off Mindanao. This ma- 
terial agrees essentially with the plant illustrated in the 
Botanical Register doc. cit., erroneously referred to the 
Javan PR. matutina Lindl., and may be taken as evidence 
that Renanthera elongata Lindl. is a native of the Philip- 
pines. 
Podochilus lucescens Blume, Bijdr. (1825) 295. 
In Merrill's Enumeration of Philippine Flowering 
Plants 1, fase. 8 (1924) 822, this species was referred to 
synonomy under P. strictus Ames on the understanding 
that the Philippine material originally referred to P. /u- 
cescens in Ames Orchidaceae 5 (1915) 90 had been er- 
roneously determined. 
Recent studies of this material indicate that it is dis- 
tinct for P. strictus and conspecific with P. lucescens. 
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