PHREATIA PROREPENS 



Phreatia prorepens Reichb. f. Otia hot. Hamb. 54 (1878) in 

 syn. and Xen. Orcli. 3: 31, in syn. ; Ames in Philipp. Journ. Sci. 

 (Bof.) 2: 332 (1907); Orchidace^, Fasc. ii. p. 205 (1908).— 

 E?ia pi^orepetis Reichb. f. Otia bot. Hamb. he. cit. and JTen. 

 Orch. loc. cit. 



The specimen in the Gray Herbarium, determined by Reichen- 

 bach, has leaves 5.5-6.7 cm. long, 7-8 mm. wide. The scape is 

 longer than the leaves, very slender, with about 5 sheathing 

 aristate-pointed bracts, 5-7 mm. long. Perianth about 2 mm. 

 long. These measurements agree almost perfectly with the spe- 

 cimen collected on Mt. Halcon, Mindoro, Philippine Islands, 

 from which the accompanying etching was prepared. The Gray 

 Herbarium specimen, which was collected in the Philippines by 

 the Wilkes Expedition, was among the novelties which Reichen- 

 bach described in Otia botanica Hamburgensia, in 1878. As 

 many of these are known to botanists only through the original 

 descriptions, the accompanying plate should prove a welcome 

 addition to the illustrations of obscure or little known orchid 

 species. 



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