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the bracteate heads arise. Bracts o£ the heads triangular, acute, 

 scarious. Ovary oblong, clothed with arachnoid hairs, subtended 

 by a scarious, sheathing, obtuse or acute bract. Lateral sepals 

 united at base round the claw of the lip, forming a scrotif orm sac ; 

 free portion 2-2.5 mm. long, 1-1.5 mm. wide, ovate-lanceolate ; 

 sac 2 mm. long, clothed with arachnoideous hairs. Dorsal sepal 

 2 mm. long, cucuUate, elliptic. Petals lanceolate, about 2 mm. 

 long, less than 1 mm. wide, 1-nerved. Lip 3 mm. long, entire, 

 3-nerved, cymbiform, fleshy-thickened at the apex ; lamina elliptic 

 when spread out, passing below into a distinct claw, jointed with 

 the foot of the column. Column with two obovate, somewhat 

 cucuUate, erect stelidia, one on each side at the summit. Capsule 

 elliptic, 9 mm. long. Flowers appearing several at a time. 



" Tufted on living trees : flowers inconspicuous, dark red or 

 reddish brown," Mt. Santo Tomas, Prov. Benguet, Luzon, July 1, 

 1904, A.D, E. Elmer (no. 6555). — Epiphyte, alt. 4500 ft., Mt. 

 Apo, Distr. Davao, Mindanao, April 24, 1904, E. B. Copeland 

 (no. 1181). 



CALANTHE, R. Br. 



C. furcata, Batem., Bot. Reg. 1838, Misc. 28 : " foliis ovato-lan- 

 ceolatis profunde plicatis scapo dense capitato sub-8equalibus,labello 

 columnse omnino adnato tripartito basi glanduloso-cristato laciniis 

 lateralibus semiovatis apice rotundatis intermedia cuneata divari- 

 catim biloba lobis apice serratis, calcare incurvo pubescente apice 

 furcato labello breviore." 



In habit similar to C, veratrifolia, R. Br. Spur slender, shorter 

 than the pedicel, 2.5 cm. long, pubescent. Lateral lobes of the 

 lip much larger than the divisions of the terminal lobe. — In 

 Folia Orchidacea Dr. Lindley wrote of C. furcata : " Mr. Rei- 

 chenbach has rightly pointed out the fact that the spur of this 

 species is variable, sometimes being emarginate, sometimes not, 

 and either longer or shorter than the lip." The specimens I 



