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long, elliptic-lanceolate. Flowers several, axillary, white. Sepals 

 and petals similar. Lateral sepals about 15 mm. long. Lip 

 3-lobed ; lateral lobes triangular-lanceolate, acute ; middle lobe 

 9 mm. long, 13 mm. wide near the apex, flabelliform-cuneate ; 

 disc with 2 crests, these rounded in front and crenate-margined. 

 Mentum 6 mm. long. — D. flabellum, Rchb., f ., Bonplandia 5 : 

 m (1857) ; Xenia Orch. 2 : 75, t. 118 (1874). 



Lamao River, Mt. Mariveles, Prov. Bataan, Luzon, May, 1904, 

 H. JSr. Whitford (no. 225). 



D. superbum, Rchb., f., Walp. Ann. 6 : 282 (1861) : " Cauli- 

 bus pendulis, foliis ovato oblongis obtusis nervosis basi subcordatis, 

 sepalis lanceolatis lateralibus parum productis, petalis oblongis 

 acutis, labello pubescente convoluto denticulato subunguiculato 

 ovato, callo baseos elevato transverso obsolete trilobo." 



Stems weak, up to 3 dm. long, attenuated below. Leaves about 



1 dm. long and 3 cm. broad, acute, deciduous. Flowers fasciculate, 

 about 8 cm. across, variable. Lateral sepals oblong-lanceolate, acute, 

 about 4 cm. long, upper one oblong-elliptic. Petals oval, about 



2 cm. broad, margins finely ciliate-hairy. Lip shortly convolute- 

 clawed, about as long as the petals, ovate, upper surface downy- 

 pubescent in front of the claw, transversely expanded and obscurely 

 3-lobed at the apex. The shape of the lip and size of the flowers 

 are extremely variaVle. Sepals and petals pale magenta-crimson ; 

 lip similarly colored, with transverse nerves of a deeper shade. 



Taublay, Baguio, Prov. Benguet, Luzon, March 24, 1904, 

 A. D. JE. Elmer (no. 6062). " Growing on lower limbs of a large 

 evergreen hardwood tree, so situated as never to receive the direct 

 rays of the sun. The stems of the plant were hanging and some 

 of the flowering stalks were as long as a man's arm. Flowers 

 strongly fragrant." 



D. taurinum, Lindl., Bot. Reg. 1843, t. 28 : " D. taurinum ; 

 foliis oblongis oblique emarginatis, racemo oblongo, sepalis ovatis 

 obtusiusculis, petalis linearibus contortis duplo longioribus, labello 



