HO ORCHIDACEM 



Hooker f . Fl. Br. Iud. 5 : 703. — Cestichis longipes Ames Orchi- 

 daceje fasc. 1, 75 (1905), in part ( Ahern's coll. no. 469). 



" Pseudobulbis approximates, subtereti baculiformibus, juniori- 

 bus vaginis amplis vestitis, diphyllis, foliis cuneato oblongoligu- 

 latis acutis, pedunculo teretiusculo, inferne nudo, superne dense 

 racemoso, braeteis lanceis ovariis subsequalibus, sepalis ligulatis 

 obtusis, tepalis filiformibus, labeUo oblongo retuso nunc utrinque 

 angulato, antice crenulato, ecalloso, columna basi et apice ampliata. 

 — Nan est L. longipes LindL, quae pollet labello retuso. Obres 

 Assam." — Reichenbach f ., I. c. 



Growing on trees, Balete, Rio Baco, Mindoro, April 23, 1905, 

 i?. C. McGregor (no. 287); same locality, May 8 (no. 318), and 

 April 12 (no. 242). — Epiphyte over river, odor very slight, alt. 

 2400 ft., Todaya, Distr. Davao, Mindanao, October 21, 1904, J?. B. 

 Copeland (no. 1421). — Epiphyte, fls. white, Baguio, Prov. Ben- 

 guet, Luzon, September 30, 1904, R. S. Williams (no. 1946). — 

 September 26, 1904, E. S. Williams (no. 1943 bis). 



Assam. 



OBERONIA Lindl. 



O. APOROPHYLLA Reichb. f. Bonpl. 3 : 223(1855); Lindley 

 Fol. Orch. Oberonia 6. — Malaxis aporophylla Reichb. f. in Walp. 

 Ann. 6: 214 (1861). — Oberonia imbricata Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. 

 Fil. 266 (1886) not Lindl. — Iridorchis apjoropjhylla Kuntze 

 Rev. Gen. PL pt. 2, 669 (1891). 



" AfE. O. ancipiti : foliis triangulis margine superiori prope 

 rectilineis, parte subdimidia Hbere ascendente, spica subverticil- 

 lata, bracteis ovatis apice ciliatuloerosulis, pluribus in inflorescen- 

 tise parte inferiori congestis fatuis. Summus character nobis vide- 

 tur positus in foliorum ratione, quaa in affinibus ancipitibus Lindl., 

 brevifolia Lindl. valde diversa. In O. ancipiti (e. g. Cuming 

 2115) folii apex adhuc latus, margo inferior valde extrorsum cur- 



