ORCHIDACEM 



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Inflorescence elongated, drooping, in length exceeding the leaf. 

 Flowers about 7 mm. apart, the whitish sepals and petals and 

 orange lip conspicuous. 



Flowers dull white with orange lip, Baguio, Prov. Benguet, 

 northern Luzon, September 23, 1904, B. 8. Williams (no. 1938) ; 

 in fruit, November 8, 1904, R. 8. Williams (no. 1950). 



Endemic. 



34. D. FILIFORME Lindley Bot. Reg. 1840, Misc. p. 52; 

 Regel Gartenfl. 18: t. 604 (1869); 111. Hort. 25: 123, t. 323 



(1878). — D. glumaceum 111. Hort. /. c, sphalm. — Platyclinis fill- 



formis Hemsley Gard. Chron. n. s. 



16: 656 (1881); Williams Orch. Gr. 



Man. ed. 7, 680. — Acoridium fili- 



forme Rolfe Orch. Rev. 12 : 220 



(1904). 



" Pseudobulbis conicis (ex Dom. 

 Bateman), scapo filiformi terminali 

 elongato, racemi multiflori rachi 

 angulata subflexuosa, bracteis pa- 

 leaceis convolutis ovario sequalibus, 

 petalis obovatis, labello cuneato 

 rotundato basi auriculato integro 

 intus bilineato, columnar appendici- 

 bus subulatis glabris liberis colum- 

 nse longitudine." — Lindley, /. c. 



DeNDROCHTLUM FILIFORME 



Peduncle 20 cm. or more long, very slender, wiry, bearing an 

 elongated, distichously flowered raceme, 15-25 cm. long, 6-10 mm. 

 through. Bracts about as long as the slender pedicel and ovary. 

 Upper sepal elliptic-oblong, acute, 3 mm. long. Lateral sepals 

 lanceolate, 3 mm. long. Petals obovate-cuneate, 3-nerved. Label- 

 Iwn 2 mm. long, obscurely tri-lobed ; lateral lobes minute, entire ; 

 middle lobe suborbicular, obcordate, with two linear calli, one on 



