ORCHIDACEM 



pollicaris. Folium a basi lineari lanceolatum acutum trinerve tres 

 pollices longum, tertiam pollicis latum. Vagince stipantes nervosse 

 maculatae. Pedunculus axillaris plurivaginatus. Vagince haud ita 

 arctae, apice libero acutse. Pars racemosa pedunculi subflexuosa. 

 Bractece semioblongse acutse ovaria subsequantes. Sepala lanceo- 

 lata. Tepala cuneato ovata duplo latiora. Labellum et gynoste- 

 mium triplo breviora. Anthera oblonga utrinque retuse depressa. 

 Pollinia ? ? Perigonium alburn ? illi Dendrochili cornuti triplo 

 majus. 2102 Cuming. Phil." — Reichenbach, f., Bonplandia, I. c. 



Pseudobulbs semi-fusiform, slender, ± 3 cm. long. Lamina 

 of the narrowly lanceolate leaf 8.4 cm. long, 1.3 cm. wide, acute. 



Inflorescence terminal. Lat- 

 eral sepals 4 mm. long, 2.5 

 mm. wide, narrowly ovate, ob- 

 tuse, 3-nerved. Upper sepal 

 4.5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, 

 oblong, obtuse. Petals round- 

 cuneate, 3-nerved, 4 mm. long, 

 3 mm. wide. Labellum 3-lobed, 

 somewhat saccate, with a con- 

 spicuous callus in the middle ; 

 lateral lobes 1 mm. long, 1 mm. 

 wide, semiovate, obtuse, each 

 with a callus near the sinus 

 formed with the fleshy truncate apiculate middle lobe, the latter 

 1 mm. long. Column short, fleshy, about 1 mm. long. Pollinia 4. 



My description of Dendrochilum pumilum is taken from a 

 tracing and from a flower of the Cuming plant (no. 2102) in the 

 herbarium of the British Museum. Here I refer the specimens 

 collected on Mt. Banahao, Prov. Tayabas, Luzon, October 19, 1904, 

 by H. jV. Whitford (no. 948), and in the Lamao Forest Reserve, 

 October, 1906, by F. W. Foxworthy (no. 1637). The leaves are 

 narrower than in the Cuming plant, the lateral sepals are nar- 

 rower, and the lateral lobes of the labellum somewhat different. 



Endemic. 



Dendrochilum pumilum 



