ORCHIDACEiE 



2. Grammatophyllum multiflorum Lindl. in Bot. Reg. (1838) 

 Misc. p. 46 and (1839) t. 65. 



Leyte, Palawan, Mindoro, Luzon. 



3. Grammatophyllum speciosum Bl. Bijdr. 378. I have not 

 seen a specimen from the Philippines. Probably this and the next 

 are conspecific. 



4. Grammatophyllum Wallisii Reichb.f. in Linnaea 41 : 107. 

 "Aff. Gr. gigantea Bl. et G. macrantho Reichb.f. sepalis cune- 

 ato oblongis margine minute nunc lobulatis, tepalis subaequali- 

 bus nunc latioribus, omnibus apice attenuato obtusatis, labello 

 altius adnato a basi anteunguiculari cordato, expanso, laciniis 

 lateralibus triangulis erectis, ubi arte expansis divaricatis, lacinia 

 mediana triangula porrecta, carinis crassis ternis in disco, super- 

 ficie cingente pilosula. 



"Planta gigantea. Flores illis specierum dictarum sequimagni, 

 sicci pallide brunnei maculis intus multis nigris. Quantum me- 

 mini dom. Wallis dixit, flores esse albidos, olivaceo guttatos. 

 Manilla." Reichb. f. /. c. 



A specimen in fruit described by the collector as a gigantic 

 orchid is the only material in the Bureau of Science Herbarium 

 referable to this species. I submitted the specimen in question to 

 Sir David Prain, who kindly reported as follows: "The fruiting 

 specimen received for determination is a Grammatophyllum, and 

 is believed to be G. Wallisii Reichb. f. in Linnasa, 41 : 107. This 

 species was described from dried specimens collected at 'Manilla' 

 by Wallis, and to it a flowering specimen collected by Loher at 

 Tayabas in June, 1904, has been referred. The fruiting specimen 

 agrees quite well with this so far as comparison is possible." 



Grammatophyllum Wallisii is known to me only from the 

 original description and the fruiting specimen in the Bureau of 



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