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in being always present. These lower flowers possess only two 

 sepals and two petals, all larger and more thickly blotched than in 

 the normal flowers. The column is also present and normal, but 

 the lip and third sepal are entirely absent." — John Weathers in 

 Gard. & For. /. c. 



Mindoro, May, 1892, A. Loher (no. 567, in U. S. Nat. Herb.). 

 — Huge pseudobulb, flowers February to May, Mindoro, W. S. 

 Lijon (hb. Ames no. 10399). 



Endemic. 



G. MULTIFLORUM Lindley Bot. Reg. 1838, Misc. p. 46, and 

 1839, t. 65 ; Lindley in Paxton's Mag. Bot. 6 : 217, cum ic. (1839) ; 

 Berl. Gartenz. 1840, 32 ; Lindley in Paxton's Fl. Gard. 2 : 160 

 (1851-2); Guidon in Journ. Soc. Imp. et Centr. d'Hort. 4: 539 

 (1858) ; Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. 6: 629 and Xen. Orch. 2: 16; 

 Veitch Man. Orch. PI. pt. 9, 32 ; Williams Orch. Gr. Man. ed. 

 7, 415 ; Naves Nov. App. 245 ; Vidal Phan. Cum. Phil. 80, 150 

 and Rev. PL Vase. Fil.270; Sander Orch. Guide 91. 



"Raceme- erecto longissimo multifloro, bracteis ovato-oblongis 

 obtusis squamiformibus dorso convexis, sejyedis oblongis obtusius- 

 culis planis, sepalis \_petalis ?] acutis subconformibus angustiori- 

 bus, labelli trilobi pubescentis medio hirsuti lobo intermedio piano 

 oblongo rotundato lateralibus erectis subfalcatis, jugo carnoso 

 elevato in medio basi lobi intermedii interrupto cis apicem evanes- 

 cente, columnar margine supra basin elevato flexuoso incurvo fo- 

 veam altam obconicam circumdante." — Lindley, Bot. Reg. 1838, 

 Misc. p. 46. 



In my herbarium there are three flowers of this species which, 

 according to the label accompanying them, were obtained from a 

 plant originally imported from Manila. These flowers were deter- 

 mined by H. G. Reichenbach f. to be G. multiflorum and came 

 to him from the Hamburg Botanic Garden. 



Endemic. 



