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have examined have both simple and forked spurs. The ter- 

 minal lobes of the lip are merely crenate, not serrate as Bateman 

 described them from the material collected in Luzon by Cuming. 

 The lip and spur characters are variable, but the large, ovate 

 obtuse lateral lobes of the lip, which are twice as broad and about 

 twice as long as the terminal ones, clearly distinguish this species 

 from the nearly allied C. veratrifoUa. 



Prov. Benguet, Luzon, May and June, 1904, P. T. Barnes (no. 

 976). — Mt. Arayat, Prov. Pampanga, Luzon, May, 1904, E. D. 

 Merrill (no. 3839). — Lamao River, Mt. Mariveles, Prov. Bataan, 

 Luzon, October, 1903, K D. Merrill (no. 3251). — Mt. Mariveles, 

 Prov. Bataan, Luzon, August, 1904, E.D.Merrill (no. 3851). — 

 Terrestrial in woods, rare, Antimonan, Prov. Tayabas, Luzon, 

 August 23, 1904, H. N. Whitford (no. 719). 



PLOCOGLOTTIS, Blume 



P. acuminata, Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 1 : 46 (1849) : 

 "acaulis; fohis breviter petiolatis elliptico-oblongis utrinque acu- 

 minatis ; phyllis perigonii labelloque acumiuatis." — Blume, Fl. 

 Java, Orch. 51 : " Petioli 4-6 poll., inferne fere ad dimidium usque 

 cylindrico-incrassati. Folia 7-12 poll., 2>j-A: poll, lata, elliptico- 

 oblonga, acuminata, basi subobHque constricta, membranacea, ner- 

 vosa, glabra. Scapus 1-2J ped., erectus, teres, ex purpurascenti 

 atropurpureus, puberulus, inferne vaginatus, superne laxe racemo- 

 sus. Flores lutei, puniceo-punctati, singuli bractea semilanceolata 

 acuminata purpurascente ovario tertia fere parte breviore suffulti. 

 Perigonii phylla longe acuminata; exteriora lanceolata, in his 

 posticum fornicato-ascendens, utrumque laterale leviter carina- 

 tum sub labello reflexum ; interiora angustiora, exterioribus paulo 

 modo breviora, falcata, erecto-patentia. Labellum ima cum basi 

 gynostemii supra ovarium nonnihil porrecta brevissime saccatum, 

 sacculo antice in cristulam extuberante, ad latera utrinque expan- 

 sione plicata gynostemio junctum ; limbus erectus v. reclinatus, 

 lato-ovatus, convexus, apice in cuspidem acuminatissimam circi- 



