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C. TRIPLICATA (Willem.) Ames Philipp. Journ. Sci. (Bot.) 

 2: 326 (1907). — Orchis triplicata Willem. in Usteri Ann. Bot. 

 vol. 6, St. 18, p. 52 (1796). — Flos triplicates Rumphius Amb. 6 : 

 113, 115, t. 52, f. 2 (1750). — Limodorum veratrifolium Will- 

 denow Sp. PL 4 : 122 (1805). — L. ventricosum Steudel Nomencl. 

 ed. 1, 481 (1821). — Calanthe veratrifolia R. Brown Bot. Reg. 

 sub t. 573 (1821); Guillemin Zeph. Tait. 27; Bot. Reg. t. 720; 

 Bot. Mag. t. 2615 ; Lindley Orch. PL 249, Fol. Orch. Calanthe 

 p. 8; Griffith Ic. PL As. t. 283, f. 4; Miquel Fl. Lad. Bat. 3: 

 711 in part; Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. 6: 917; Drury Handb. 

 Ind. Fl. 3 : 386 ; Bentham Fl. Austr. 6 : 305; Moore Orch. PL Ca- 

 lanthe no. 7; Mueller Descr. notes Papuan Plants 4: 73; Fitzger- 

 ald Austr. Orch. vol. 1, pt. 4, t. 4; Naves Nov. App. 246; Petot 

 l'Orchidophile 2 : 481 (1882); Kranzlin in Engler's bot. Jahrb. 6 : 

 54 (1885) ; Hooker f . FL Br. Ind. 5 : 851, 6 : 195 ; Lindenia, 6 : 

 t. 252 ; Kerchove Livre des Orch. 45, f . 22 ; Veitch Man. Orch. 

 pt. 6, pp. 68, 69 with vars. macroloba and Regnieri (not C. 

 Regnieri Reichb. f.), fig.; Ridley Journ. Linn. Soc. 32: 329 

 (1896); Trimen FL Ceylon pt. 4, 174; l'Orchidophile 11: 4 (1891), 

 12: 162 (1892); la Sem. Hort. 2 : 206 (1898); Bailey Queensl. 

 Fl. pt. 5, 1545 ; Kranzlin in Schumann & Lauterbach Fl. deut. 

 Schutzgeb. Siidsee 243 ; Schlechter Nachtr. Fl. deut. Schutzgeb. 

 145 ; Rolfe Journ. Linn. Soc. 36 : 26 (1903) ; Matsumura Ind. PL 

 Jap. 2 : 238 ; J. J. Smith Orch. Java 211, Orch. Ambon 23. Not 

 C. veratrifolia Hooker Bot. Bechey Voy. (= C. gracillima). 



To this species it seems best to reduce C. furcata Batem. on the 

 ground that C. triplicata is extremely variable. The labellum 

 characters on which great reliance has been placed for a distinc- 

 tion between C. furcata and C triplicata have little if any sys- 

 tematic value, and the lateral lobes and terminal lobes may often 

 be subequal. Here I refer the specimens placed under C. furcata 

 Batem. in Orchidace^: fasc. 1, p. 82. 



Lucban, Prov. Benguet, Luzon, March 19, 1904, A. D.E.Elmer 

 (no. 5993). — Terrestrial, fls. white, odorless, humid forests, Baco 



