NEPHELAPHYLLUM MINDORENSE 



Nephelaphyllum mindorense Ames in Philijjp. Journ. Set. 

 (Bot.) 2: 316 (1907). 



''Closely allied to N. pulchrum Blume. Plants about 2 dm. tall. 

 Rhizome creeping, slender, rooting at intervals. Stems purple. 

 Leaves with the under surface uniformly dark purple, upper 

 surface mottled, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, acute, 8-10 cm. 

 long, 3-5.5 cm. wide near the base. Petioles relatively slender, 

 about 3 cm. long. Peduncles exceeding the leaves, clothed with 

 several scarious tubular acute sheaths. Inflorescence loosely few- 

 flowered. Bracts about 1 cm. long, linear, acute, scarious, some- 

 what shorter than the pedicels of the yvhile flowei^s. Lateral 

 sepals linear, acute, 1 -nerved, 9 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide. Upjjer 

 sepal similar and equal to the laterals. Petals oblong, acute, 

 slightly broader above than below the middle, 1 -nerved, about 

 8 mm. long, 3 mm. wide. Labellum suborbicular, entire, 9-10 mm. 

 long, 9-10 mm. wide, with 3 prominent converging lamellce near 

 the apex, which pass basally into the main nerves of the hairy 

 disc. Spur blunt, inflated, 4-5 mm. long." — Ames, loc. dt. 



Philippine Islands : Terrestrial in humid forest at about 900 ft. alt. along 

 the Binabay River, Mindoro, November 2, 1906, E. D. Merrill (no. 5623). 



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