102 ORCHIBACEM 



Leaves broadly ovate-oblong, 14-30 cm. long, emarginate or 

 mucronate. Peduncles variable in length, green, tinged with 

 madder-purple, arching or erect, panicled or racemed, many-flow- 

 ered. Flowers white, 7-10 cm. across. Lateral sepals ovate-lan- 

 ceolate or oblong-lanceolate. Upper sepal elliptic. Petals broad, 

 sub-rhomboidal, contracted at the base. Labellum 3-lobed ; lateral 

 lobes incurved, sub-quadrate, yellow at the base ; middle lobe 

 linear-hastate, with two basal auricles, the apex terminating in two 

 fiHform, tendril-like divisions ; crest 2-lobed, yellow, spotted with 

 red. Column short, sub-quadrate. 



Lamoa River, Prov. Bataan, Luzon, May 2, 1904, Thomas E. 

 Borden (no. 680). 



P. rosea, Lmdl., Gard. Chr. 1848, 671: " Sp. Char. — Stem- 

 less. Leaves narrow oblong, leathery, sharp and recurved at the 

 point (8-12 inches long). Flowers 12 or 13, about an inch in 

 diameter, at the end of a stiff ascending lateral peduncle (18 

 inches long). Sepals spreading, oblong-lanceolate, rather acute, 

 equal, white slightly tinged with pink. Lip ascending, deep violet, 

 with the lateral segments linear-spathulate, oblique, incurved, the 

 middle one ovate acuminate, slightly lozenge-shaped ; crest thin, 

 concave, lunate, rounded. 



" The flowers are small, numerous, and arranged in a loose 

 spike. The Hp wants the tendrils so remarkable in Ph. amabilis 

 and grandiflora, instead of which it is bright rose colour, with 

 almost the shape of a trowel. It was found in Manila by Mr. T. 

 Lobb." 



" Epiphyte," alt. 3000 ft., Mt. Apo, Todaya, Davao, Mindanao, 

 April, 1904, E. B. Copeland (no. 1228). — " Flowers pink and 

 white, fragrant," alt. 75 m. above sea, Mt. Mariveles, Prov. Bataan, 

 Luzon, August, 1904, Elmer D. Merrill (no. 3849). — Capiz, 

 Panay, January 9, 1904, E. B. Copeland (no. 200). 



