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grow in a region where for a part of the year the air is extremely 

 humid and at other times extremely dry. In March, when the 

 specimen which Mr. Merrill sent to me was collected, the species 

 seemed to be in a dormant state. (Cf. D. Lyonii, p. 177.) 



Flowers white, centre yellow with lavender streaks, alt. 1000 

 m. above sea-level, Lamao River, Mt. Mariveles, Prov. Bataan, 

 Luzon, February 16, 1905, H. N. Whitford (no. 1091). — 1904, 

 D. L. Topping (no. 461). — April, 1905, E. B. Copeland. 



Endemic on Mt. Mariveles. 



D. (§ Aporum) ATROPURPUREUM (Bl.)Miquel Fl.Ind.Bat. 

 3: 644 (1859) ; Parish & Reichb. f. Tr. Linn. Soc. 30: 137, 149 

 (1874); Hooker f. Fl. Br. Ind. 5: 724 (excl. syns. concinnum and 

 camosum), 6: 184; Grant Orch. Burma 68; Gard. Chron. n. s. 

 16 : 688 (1881) ; Ridley Journ. Linn. Soc. 31 : 268 (1896) and 32 : 

 246 (1896) ; Rolfe Journ. Linn. Soc. 36 : 9 (1903) in part ; Ridley 

 Tr. Linn. Soc. ser. 2 (Bot.) 3: 361; Scheffer PI. Nouv. Guin. (Ann. 

 Jard. Buitenz. l) 59 ; Kranzlin in Schumann & Hollrung Fl. Kaiser 

 Wilhelmsl. 31 and Schumann & Lauterbach Fl. deut. Schutzgeb. 

 Siidsee 246 ; J. J. Smith Orch. Ambon 54 ; Ames Orchidace^} 

 fasc. 1, 86 (1905). — Uerba supplex minor and Daun Subat Rum- 

 phius Herb. Amb. 6: 110 (1750). — Oxystophyllum atropurpu- 

 reum Blume Rumphia 4 : 41, 1. 193, f . 4, 1. 198, C. (1848) ; Reichb. 

 f. in Walp. Ann. 3 : 530. — Callista carnosa Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. 

 pt. 2, 653 (1891) in part. — Dendrobium sinuatum Schlechter in 

 Perkins Fragm. Fl. Phil. 43 (1904), not Lindl. 



Very near D. camosum Miq. and so referred by most authors. 

 I follow J. J. Smith in keeping the species distinct. 



Alt. 450 ft., Lamao River, Mt. Mariveles, Prov. Bataan, central 

 Luzon, January 13, 1904, R. S. Williams (no. 507). — Swamp, 

 Lamilan River, Basilan Island, Prov. Moro, very common, January 

 23, 1906, W. I. Hutchinson (field no. 104, Forestry Bureau nos. 

 3967 and 5175). — Mangrove swamp, Cadiz Nuevo, Prov. Negros 

 Occidental, Negros, February 10, 1906, H. D. Everett (field no. 

 36, Bureau no. 4217). — Plant flat, 6 in. high, epiphytic, flowers 



