ANGRiECUM PHILIPPINENSE 



Angraecum philippinense Ames in Philipp. Journ, Sci {Bot.) 

 2: 336 (1907); Orchidace^, Fasc. ii. p. 246 (1908). 



Plant 3-6 cm. high. Roots very fleshy. Leaves eUiptic-oblong, 

 obtuse, 2-5.5 cm. long, 0.6-1.4 cm. wide, on contracted steins. 

 Peduncle fleshy, stout, conspicuously winged, few-flowered, 

 1.5-4 cm. long. Bracts rigid, fleshy, 5 mm. long, conduplicate, 

 triangular, acute. Pedicels elongated, about 2.5 cm. long, includ- 

 ing the ovary. Flowers large, white, odorless. Lateral sepals el- 

 liptic, rounded and very obtuse at the apex, about 2.2 cm. long, 

 about 1.5 cm. wide. Upper sepal similar to the petals, cuneate 

 at base, about 2.2 cm. long, 1.4-1.5 cm. wide. Petals broadly 

 spathulate, about 2.2 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide, very obtuse. La- 

 bellum 3-lobed; middle lobe oblong, rounded at the tip, 9 mm. 

 long, about 7.5 mm. wide; lateral lobes somewhat similar to the 

 middle lobe, but shorter, 4-5 mm. long, 6.5 mm. wide at base. 

 Spur slender, 3.5 cm. long. Column about 7 mm. long, rather 

 stout. Pollinia globose with a single stipe. 



, Philippine Islands : Epiphyte at about 2500 ft. alt. on forested slopes 

 of Mt. Halcon, Mindoro, November 28, 1906, E. D. Merrill (no. 5698). 



The description given above is, with the exception of several 

 minor changes, taken from the Philippine Journal of Science. 



Angrcecum philippinense is the first species of the genus An- 

 grsecum recorded as a native of the Philippine Islands. The 

 flowers are white with a yellow stripe on the labellum, and in 

 relation to the size of the plant which bears them extraordinarily 

 large. When dry they retain their white color and become some- 

 what translucent. The leaves when dry retain the coriaceous 

 texture characteristic of their fresh state and become extremely 

 rugose. Each of the specimens which constitute the co-type, from 



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