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This interesting species is closely related to H. diphylla Dalz., 

 from which it may readily be distinguished by the very short 

 lateral lip-lobes and by its smaller stature. 



In grass on limestone hills, Baguio, Prov. Benguet, Luzon, 

 August, 1906, //. M. Curran (no. 4884). 

 Endemic. 



H. (§ Diphyllse) DIPHYLLA (Nimmo) Dalzell in Hook. Kew 

 Journ. Bot. 2: 262 (1850); Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. 3: 588; 

 Dalzell & Gibson Bomb. Fl. 268; Drury Hanclb. Ind. Fl. 3 : 416; 

 Hooker Fl. Br. Ind. 6 : 151 ; Kranzlin Orch. Gen. et Sp. 1 : 346. 



— IAparis dijrfiyllos Nimmo in Graham Cat. Bomb. PI. 252 

 (1839). — Ilabenaria Jerdoniana Wight Icon. 5: 14, t. 1715 

 (1852); Kranzlin in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. 16: 154 (1893).— H. 

 Sutteri Reichb. f. Linnsea 25: 229 (1852). — Platanthera cana- 

 rensis Lindley PI. Hohenack no. 142 ex Reichb. f. Linnsea 41 : 

 100 (1877). 



" H. diphylla; caule semipedali, foliis 2 radicalibus carnosis 

 orbiculatis basi cordatis obscure 7-nerviis convexis in solum arete 

 adpressis, bracteis caidinis crebris subulatis basi vaginatisj^ora^i- 

 bus ovario duplo brevioribus, sepalo supremo late ovato acutiusculo 

 3-nervio, lateralibus ovatis acutis 3-nerviis sub anthesi patentibus, 

 petalis lineari-falcatis acutis erectis sepalis minoribus, labelli tri- 

 partiti laciniis omnibus filiformibus, lateralibus intermedia longi- 

 oribus adscendentibus reflexis apice spiraliter contortis, calcare 

 pendulo filiformi subclavato breviter mucronato, ovario paulo bre- 

 viore, processibus carnosis lingseformibus intense viridibus labelli 

 basi adnatis. Flores pauci, 5-6, distantes, albo-virescentes, sc. 

 perianthii partibus omnibus basi albis apice viridibus. Caulis gra- 

 cillimus, strictus, folia sesquipollicaria longitudine et latitudine. 

 Glandidce albse, sphsericse, minutae, basi antheraa parallels. Hab. 

 In planitiebus graminosis Concani Australioris copiose ; fl. Julio." 



— Dalzell, I. c. 



