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mento obtusangulo, sepalis triangulis, tepalis linearif alcatis, labello 

 ab ungue rhombeo apiculato. Similis JEria (Phreatia) elegans 

 foliorum fasciculos triphyllos et flores breviores gerit. Phreatia 

 prorepens. Mahaihai Lugonise." — Reichenbach, f ., I. c. 



Plant 7.5 cm. high. Rhizome creeping, ± 2 mm. thick. Sec- 

 ondary steins about 1 cm. long, ± 2 mm. thick. Leaf 5.5-6.5 cm. 

 long, 7-8 mm. wide, oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous. Scape slender, 

 sheathed at intervals by scarious, tubular, truncate, apiculate 

 bracts. Floral bracts linear-lanceolate, ± 3 mm. long, scarious 

 when dry. Pedicel and ovary 3 mm. long. Flowers minute. 

 Lateral sepals about 2 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, triangular, 

 acute. Upper sepal 2 mm. long, lanceolate. Petals ovate-lanceo- 

 late, 1.5 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide. Lahellum 2 mm. long, 

 unguiculate, claw 1 mm. long, lamina broadly subcordate, apicu- 

 late, 1 mm. wide. 



Mt. Mahaihai, Luzon, Wilkes expedition (1838-42, specimen 

 in hb. Gray). — Epiphyte, fls. white, fragrant, in ridge forest at 

 5800 ft. alt. on Mt. Halcon, Mindoro, November 15, 1906, E. D. 

 Merrill (nos. 5758, 5814, 6190). 



Endemic. 



BULBOPHYLLUM Thou. 



B. ADENOFETALUM Lindley Bot. Reg. 1842, Misc. p. 85 ; 

 Vidal Phan. Cum. Phil. 149 and Rev. PI. Vase. Fil. 267 ; Rolfe 

 Journ. Bot. 23 : 215 (1885) ; Hooker f . PI. Br. Ind. 5 : 770 and 

 6 : 188 ; Ames Philipp. Journ. Sci. (Bot.) 2 : 333 (1907). — Phyh 

 lorchis adenopetala Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. pt. 2, 677 (1891). 



"Foliis oblongis obtusis petiolatis basi vix bulbosis, spica 

 secunda basi laxe vaginata multiflora folio sublongiore, sepalis 

 acuminatis, petalis spathulatis acutis intus glandulosis, labello 

 ovato angusto obtuse acuminato ciliato basi canaliculato." — Lind- 

 ley, Z. c. 



