96 ORCHIDACEM 



PHREATIA, Lindl. 



P. LuzoNiENSis, Rolfe, sp. nov. "Stems tufted, very short. 

 Leaves linear, somewhat fleshy, subobtuse, li-li inches long. 

 Scapes slender, arching, about half as long as the leaves, clothed 

 with two or three lanceolate acute sheaths below. Bracts ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, f-1 lin. long. Pedicels about | lin. long. 

 Flower 1 line in diameter. Sepals broadly ovate, subobtuse, some- 

 what concave. Petals ovate, subacute, rather shorter than the 

 sepals. Lip nearly as long as the sepals, saccate at the base, limb 

 broad and obtusely tricuspidate at the apex. Column short and 

 stout. — On Mt. Mariveles, Lamao River, in the Province of 

 Bataan, Whitford, n. 210. Allied to the Malayan P. microtidis, 

 Lindl., in which the inflorescence is longer than the leaves, the 

 bracts longer, and the Hp orbicular." — R. A. Rolfe in MS. 



Whitford's no. 115, collected in the same locaHty with no. 

 210, belongs here. Leaves distichous; lip sometimes obovate, 

 retuse, with a blunt mucro in the sinus. Capsule ellipsoidal, 

 5 mm. long. 



BULBOPHYLLUM, Thouars 



B. BATAANENSis, sp. uov. Rhizoma repens. Pseudobulbi re- 

 moti, sessiles, 2 cm. longi. Fohum oblongo-ellipticum, obtusum, 

 soHtarium, coriaceum, rigidum, 5-8 cm. longum. Sepala lateralia 

 triangulo-falcata, acuta. Sepalum dorsale oblongo-lanceolatum. 

 Petala triangularia, elongata, acuta. Labellum cordato-ovatum, 

 acutum. 



Rhizome stout, creeping. Pseudobulbs 2 cm. long, about 3 cm. 

 apart, monophyllous. Leaves elliptic-oblong, shortly petiolate, 

 coriaceous, rigid, obtuse, 5S cm. long, 2.5 cm. wide. Peduncles 

 slender, 1-flowered. Lateral sepals triangular-falcate, acute, 2-2.5 

 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide at base. Upper sepal 3.5 cm. long, much 

 narrower than the laterals. Petals triangular-lanceolate, 2-2.5 cm. 



