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237 (1861). — Pholidota sesquitorta Kranzlin Xen. Orch. 3 : 114, 

 t. 266, f. I (1893). 



" C. balbis oblongis compressiusculis sulcatis diphyllis, foliis 

 lanceolatis nervosis, scapo erecto, labello medio bidenticulato. 

 (Septula exteriora ovata, acuta; lateralia carinata; posticum levi- 

 ter fornicatum ; interna linearia.) " — Blume Bijdr. I. c. 



A plant of robust habit. Pseudobulbs a decimeter long, up to 

 2 cm. wide, diphyllous. Leaves petiolate, about 5 dm. long, 6-18 

 cm. wide, many-nerved. Scape naked, arising on the new shoot, 

 which is clothed with numerous imbricating bracts. Inflorescence 

 about 2 dm. long, with distichous, conduplicate, caducous, imbri- 

 cating, cymbiform, glumaceous bracts 2 cm. long. Flowers about 

 1 cm. across. Petals oblong. Sepals elliptical. Lip saccate at 

 base, with 2 crests on the margin of the sac ; limb 4-lobed, the api- 

 cal lobe bifid. Column with a large wing. Pollinia 4, pyriform. 



Epiphytic over river, odor sweetish, fls. cream color with white 

 lip, alt. 600 ft., San Ramon, Distr. Zamboanga, Mindanao, Febru- 

 ary 5, 1905, E. B. Copeland (no. 1621). 



Java. 



DENDROCHILUM Bl. 



The Philippine Islands are rich in species of this genus. The 

 greater part of the species described below belong to the section 

 of which Dendrochilum tenellum is the type. That is, they want 

 the column appendages which are variously described as wings, 

 arms, or teeth, and are characteristic of such well-known plants as 

 D. glumaceum, D. Cobbianum, and D. filiforme, cultivated for 

 the beauty of their elongated drooping racemes. 



Dendrochilum, as originally understood by its founder, Blume, 

 was divided into two sections, one characterized by a lateral, the 

 other by a terminal inflorescence. These sections were recognized 

 as distinct genera by Bentham, who published them as Dendro- 



