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ORCHIDACEfi 



Epiphyte in mossy forest, alt. 4300 ft., November 13, 1906, 

 E. D. Merrill (no. 5611) ; same locality, November 15, 1906, Mer- 

 rill (no. 5730). — Flowers yellowish green, Lamao Forest Reserve, 

 Prov. Bataan, Luzon, February 18, 1907, H. M. Curran(no. 6305). 



Endemic. 



30. D. UNCATUM Reichb. f. Bonpl. 3: 222 (1855); Walp. 

 Ann. 6 : 927; FOrchidophile 1 : 195 (1882) ; J. J. Smith Rec.Trav. 

 Bot. Neerl. 1 : 72 (1904). — Platyclinis uncata Vidal Rev. PI. 

 Vase. Fil. 267 (1886) ; N. E. Brown in Williams Orch. Gr. Man. ed. 

 7, 680. — Acoridium uncatum Rolfe Orch. Rev. 12 : 220 (1905). 



" Aff. Dendrochilo filiformi Lindl. (Cuming 2103 ?), Idbelli 

 trilobi lobis basilaribus antrorsis ovato triangulis margine externo 



denticulatis, lobo medio cuneato 

 ovato antice emarginato apiculato, 

 carinis duabus semilunatis extrorsis 

 a basi in basin lobi medii, gynoste- 

 mii dentibus lateralibus uncinatis. 

 Plantida subpedalis. Pseudobulbi 

 non evoluti. Vagince arctae ochraceae 

 nigro maculatae. Folium cuneato li- 

 gulatum acutum quinquenerve qua- 

 dripollicare, duas pollicis tertias 

 latum. Pedunculus filiformis apicem 

 versus prope anceps ; racemosus per 

 tres quatuorve pollices. Bractece 

 scariosae semiovatae obtusae acutae 

 ante basin subventricosae ovaria 

 aequantes. Sejxda triangula acuta, 

 lateralia sublongiora. Tepala cune- 

 ato oblonga acuta paulo latiora, nunc 

 hinc minutissime denticulata. Gynostemium gracile. Androclinii 

 lobus dorsalis acutus ; dentes laterales in medio gynostemio ex- 

 serti, porrecti. — Bracteae fatuae quaedam vulgo in basi inflores- 

 centiae more Ccelogynarum congestae." — Reichenbach, f., /. c. 



DENDROCHILUM UNCATUM 



