OBERONIA MINDORENSIS 



Oberonia mindorensis Ames in Philipp. Journ. Sci. {Bot.) 2: 

 322 (1907). 



"Allied to O. Aporophylla Reichb. f. Plant caulescent, 1.5-4 dm. 



or more tall from base of stem to tip of elongated, slender, 



densely flowered spike. Leaves distichous, 5-10 cm. or more 



long, acute or subobtuse, obliquely ascending, upper half or 



two-thirds free. Spike 1-2.5 dm. long, about 5 mm. in diameter, 



somewhat scurfy-pubescent. B?^acts linear, about 2 mm. long. 



Flowers minute, greenish. Lateral sepals elliptic-ovate or ovate, 



1 mm. long. Upper sepal similar to the laterals. Petals linear, 



obtuse, 0.75 mm. long. Lahellum 1 mm. long, 3-lobed; middle 



lobe emarginate, about 1 mm. wide; lateral lobes not very 



conspicuous, prolonged slightly behind the column. In general 



outline the labellum is subpanduriform, emarginate, or equally 



4-lobed." — Ames, loc. cit. 



Philippine Islands: Epiphyte, at 1200 ft. alt., along the Alag River, 

 Mindoro, November, 1906, E. D. Merrill (no. 5613). 



The illustration is a restoration from a co-type preserved in my 

 herbarium. The flowering plant is representative of one of the 

 smallest of the specimens collected by Merrill, while the leaves 

 in the background exhibit one of the largest. 



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