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The specimens which I here refer to Lindley's inadequately 

 characterized B. adenopetalum, have scapes 2 dm. long, with 

 about 20 flowers along the upper half, arranged in a loose raceme. 

 The plants are devoid of pseudobulbs, the scapes and leaves rising 

 from a thickened rhizome. The oblong, coriaceous leaves (laminae 

 9-11 cm. long, ± 2 cm. wide) have elongated, grooved petioles 

 about 1 dm. long. Lindley describes the petals of his specimens 

 as spathulate, and draws them so in the sketch which accompanies 

 his Singapore plant. My specimens have lanceolate petals, but in 

 habit agree very well with Cuming's Philippine plants preserved 

 in Lindley's herbarium. Unfortunately I have no record of the 

 petals of Cuming's Philippine specimens which Lindley ascribed 

 to B. adenopetalum, and therefore have no means of settling 

 definitely the identity with B. adenopetalum of my Philippine 

 specimens, nor of segregating them from it. For the present it 

 seems advisable to consider the plants conspecific with Lindley's 

 B. adenopetalum. 



Mt. Malindang, Prov. Misamis, Mindoro, May, 1906, Major E. 

 A. Mearns & W. I. Hutchinson (no. 4601). 

 Island of Bohol, Singapore. 



B. BATAANENSIS Ames Orchidacb^ fasc. 1, 96 (1905). 



Mt. Mariveles, Prov. Bataan, Luzon, 1904, D. LeRoy Topping 

 (no. 473). — May, 1906, E. D. Merrill (no. 5182). 

 Endemic. 



B. CUNEATUM Rolfe ex Ames Orchidace^e fasc. 1, 98 (1905). 



On trees, fls. purple, yellowish, alt. 3000 ft., upper Lamao River, 

 Prov. Bataan, central Luzon, January 3, 1904, B. S. Williams 

 (no. 431). 



Endemic. 



B. DASYPETALUM Rolfe ex Ames Orchidace^ fasc. 1, 98 

 (1905), fig. ; Ames Philipp. Journ. Sci. (Bot.) 2 : 333 (1907). 



