NOTES ON PHILIPPINE ORCHIDS, IV. 13 
finely pubescent above, with several, tubular, obtuse, sheathing, 
closely appressed bracts about 2 cm long. Raceme loosely flow- 
ered, bracts deciduous. Pedicels slender, finely pubescent, 1 cm 
long. Ovary pubescent, about 8 mm long. Color of the flowers 
not noted. Lateral sepals 11 mm long, 3 mm wide, narrowly 
lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent. Upper sepal similar to the 
laterals and about equal to them. Petals 8 mm long, 2 mm wide, 
linear-lanceolate, acute, smooth. Labellwm 7 mm long, 3-lobed. 
Lateral lobes directed forward, 3 mm long, acuminate, acute, 
margin slightly crenulate. Middle lobe flabellate, deeply emar- 
ginate, apiculate, margin crenulate or blunt-toothed. Disk 
smooth with two semi-elliptic carinae one on each lateral nerve 
in front of the column, fleshy, pubescent. Spur none. 
Luzon, Province of Zambales, Maximo Ramos, Bur. Sci. 4987, December 
14, 1907. 
; EULOPHIA R. Br. 
Eulophia Vanoverberghii sp. nov. 
Planta gracilis. Folia? Racemus laxus, bracteae lineares. 
Pedicelli graciles. Sepala lateralia ligulato-oblonga, obtusa. 
Sepalum superius simile. Petala anguste elliptica. Labellum 
3-lobatum; lobi laterales haud conspicui, minuti, obtusi, lobus 
medius oblongus, obtusus. Discus papillosus, ultra columnam 
utroque callus carinatus. 
Plants slender, 2 to 4 dm tall from a large corm. Scape 
sheathed at the base by several, nervose, tubular, imbricating 
bracts, near the middle 1- or 2-bracteate. (Leaves absent at 
flowering time, not seen.) Raceme loosely flowered, 10 to 15 
em long. Bracts of the raceme linear, about 1 cm long, about 
equaling the pedicellate ovary, erect or slightly spreading. 
Pedicels slender, smooth, about 7 mm long; ovary smooth, about 
5 mm long at the period of anthesis. Flowers about 1 cm 
long, erect. Lateral sepals 1.4 cm long, 3.5 mm wide, ligulate- 
oblong, obtuse, green. Upper sepal similar to the laterals, 
‘slightly shorter. Petals 1 cm long, about 5 mm wide, narrowly 
elliptic, rounded at the tip, green. Labellum 1.3 cm long, 7 
mm wide at the tip, oblong, very obscurely 3-lobed, the lateral 
lobes minute and inconspicuous, margin wavy or fluted, nerves 
papillose, disk bilamellate at base. Sac obtuse, 1 mm long. 
Column about 11 mm long. Pollinia 2. The labellum is de- 
scribed by the collector as being yellow and all the perianth 
organs as being marked with red lines. 
Luzon, Bontoe Subprovince, Father M. Vanoverbergh 336, April 2, 1910. 
“Root edible;”’ found 1,350 meters above sea level on hillocks. 
