ORCHIDACE 
what assumption I do not know. In the Philippines Habenaria 
malintana appears to be common in Luzon. 
VANILLA Juss. 
Vanilla calopogon Reichb. f: Otia Bot. Hamb. Fase. 1 
(1878) 40. 
This appears to be a very rare species. Among the collections 
examined I have seen only three sets of specimens. Vanilla calo- 
pogon Reichb. f. is readily distinguished from V’. ovalis Blanco, 
the only other species of the genus heretofore reported from the 
Philippine Islands, by its leafless stems and white flowers. Up to 
the present time this species has been found only in Luzon. The 
following collection is worthy of a record. 
Luzon, Ilicos Norte Province, Burgos, M. Ramos Bur. Sci. 32928, J uly 
20, 1918. In dry thickets. Flowers white. 
LECANORCHIS Bi. 
Lecanorchis javanica B/. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 2 (1856) 
188. L. triloba J. J. Sm. in Bull. Dépt. Agric. Ind. Néerl. 19 
(1908) 26. 
In Fascicle V of this work, I adopted for this species the name 
proposed by J. J. Smith in Bull. Dépt. Agric. Ind. Néerl. Smith 
is now of the opinion that L. triloba should be added to the syn- 
onymy of L. javanica Bl., on the assumption that Blume must 
have described his species from a peloric form in which the label- 
lum was entire instead of being normal and three-lobed. The 
type of L. javanica at Leiden is in poor condition and insuffi- 
cient to establish beyond doubt that Smith is correct. Smith 
has examined material from western Java that is characterized 
by a three-lobed lip, and his studies have convinced him that 
L. triloba is not a distinct species, but simply the normal state of 
LL. gavanica. 
