202 ORCHIDACEM 



P. ENSIFOLIA sp. nov. Herba 7 cm. alta cum racemo erecto. 

 Radices fibrosae. Cairfes 3-4 cm. alti, basibus foliorum vaginan- 

 tibus tecti. Folia disticha, coriacea, acuta, 

 circa 7, ensif ormia, ± 3 cm. longa, circa 3 mm. 

 lata a margine ad nervum medium. Peclun- 

 culus cum racemo 3 cm. longus. Racemus 

 2.5 cm. longus. Bracteai plures, lineari-lance- 

 olatse, acumiuatse, bracteis inflorescentise si- 

 miles. Flores minuti. Sepala lateralia ovata, 

 1.5 mm. longa, 1 mm. lata. Sepalum dorsale 



PHBKATIA ENSIFOLIA • «i -A 



lateralibus sunile et aequale. Jretala lineana, 

 ad apicem paulatim fastigata, 1 mm. longa. Labellum petalis 

 simile, circa 1 mm. longum. 



Flowers greenish, 3750 ft. above sea-level, Mt. Mariveles, Prov. 

 Bataan, Luzon, May 6, 1904, H. N. Whitford (no. 153). 



P. LUZON IENSIS Rolfe ex Ames Orchid ace^: fasc. 1, 96 

 (1905). 



Alt. 6000 ft., Mt. Apo, Prov. Davao, Mindanao, October 23, 



1904, E. B. Coj)ela?id. — Prov. Zamboanga, Mindanao, February, 



1905, E. B. Copeland (no. 1659), in part. 

 Luzon. 



P. MINUTIFLORA Lindley Journ. Linn. Soc. 3 : 62 (1859); 

 Hooker f . Fl. Br. Ind. 5 : 811 ; Ridley Journ. Linn. Soc. 31 : 285 

 (1896). 



" Foliis linearibus coriaceis recurvis equitantibus obtusis spicis 

 tenuibus sequalibus, bracteis triangulo-setaceis, labello obovato 

 concavo. Borneo, Lobb. Leaves about 2 inches long. Flowers 

 the smallest in the genus, in an erect very slender spike. Bracts 

 brown, setaceous, broad at the base." — Lindley, I. c. 



Labellum 1.25 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, obcordate, apiculate. 

 Sepals 1 mm. long. Petals 0.75 mm. long. 



