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P. XYTRIOPHORUS (Reichb.f.) Schlechter Mem. Herb. Boiss. 

 no. 21, 47 (1900). — Appendicula xytriophora Reichb. f. in 

 Seemann FL Vit. 299 (1868) ; Vidal Phan. Cum. Phil. 83, 151 

 and Rev. PL Vase. Fil. 272 ; Rolfe Journ. Bot. 23 : 216 (1885) ; 

 Hooker f. Fl. Br. Ind. 6: 84; Ridley Journ. Linn. Soc. 31: 301 

 (1896) and 32: 391 (1896). 



" Elatior ; vaginis nervoso-striatis ; foliis oblongis, apice trifi- 

 dis, papyraceis, apicem versus serrulatis ; laciniis apicis omnibus 

 liberis ; bracteis oblongis, apiculatis, floribus brevioribus ; labello 

 oblongo, apiculato, linea carinata marginante, postice confluente 

 supra totum discum, ante apicem abrupta ; columna bicorni. — ... 

 Philippines? {Cuming ! n. 2149.) Nunc ramosa, forsan apice casu 

 quodam deciso. Folia sequentis, duplo minora. Racemi terminales, 

 nunc alii axillares in foliis summis, multiflori. Bractece demum de- 

 flexae. Ovarium brevi-pedicellatuin. Mentum perulaceum, obtusum. 

 Sepalum dorsale et sepala lateralia oblonga, obtusa, trinervia, haec 

 tamen in saccum perulaceum extensa. Tepala angustiora, breviora, 

 obtusiora, vulgo uninervia. Columna postice in processum ligula- 

 tum, antice in processum linearem seu triangulum apice bicuspida- 

 tum extensa." — Reichenbach f., I. c. 



The material on which the above determination is based agrees 

 with Cuming's specimen (type no., 2149) in Lindley's herbarium 

 at Kew. 



Epiphyte, fls. odorless, greenish, labellum white, turning yel- 

 lowish, throat purple, at 500 ft. alt. along the Alag River, 

 Mindoro, November 6, 1906, E. D. Merrill (no. 5817). — Camp 

 Keithley, Lake Lanao, Mindanao, May and June, 1906, Mary 

 Strong Clemens. — On rocks, Sibayan River, alt. 1600 ft., Distr. 

 Davao, Mindanao, April 17, 1904, E. B. Copeland (no. 968).— 

 Epiphyte, Todaya, Distr. Davao, Mindanao, alt. 3000 ft., April 25, 

 1904, Copeland (no. 1266). — Mt. Apo, alt. 6000 ft., Distr. 

 Davao, Mindanao, October 23, 1904, Copeland. 



Perak. 



