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axils of the leaves, 3 cm. across when spread out, fragrant, " green- 

 ish-brown outside, brownish inside, lip white and pink." Divisions 

 of the perianth fleshy. Lateral sepals lanceolate, acute, 1.5-1.8 

 cm. long, 8 mm. wide, apex abruptly curved. Upper sepal oblong, 

 acute, 1.5 cm. long, about 6 mm. wide. Petals linear-spathulate, 

 obtuse or subacute, 1.6 cm. long, 4.5 mm. wide. Labellum 1.6-1.9 

 cm. long, firmly united with the column at base, cruciform ; lateral 

 divisions near the apex, narrowly triangular, acute ; apex of label- 

 lum beyond the lateral lobes flattened laterally into a vertical acute 

 plate, in vertical measurement 5 mm., strongly angled ventrally ; 

 upper surface of the lip villose, the hairs white ; near the column 

 and joined to it, on each side, a round-triangular lobule ; within 

 the shallow sac a Ungulate hairy appendage. 



Astorga, Prov. Davao, Mindanao, April 29, 1904, E. B. Cope- 

 land. — Epiphyte near the sea, Prov. Davao, Mindanao, March 

 17, 1904, E. B. Copeland (no. 553). — Maragondon, Prov. Cavite, 

 Luzon, July 30, 1905, E. B. Merrill (no. 4188). — Prov. Rizal, 

 Luzon, specimen taken from plant flowering in Manila, July 9, 

 1905, A. Loiter (no. 6023). 



The material on which my determination is based agrees most 

 satisfactorily with Cuming's Philippine plant at the British Mu- 

 seum, numbered 2140. 



Endemic. " Common throughout the Philippines," — Loher. 



PHAL^NOPSIS Bl. 



P. AMABILIS (L.)Blume Bijdr. 294, t. 44 (1825); Lindley 

 Orch. PI. 213 ; Bennett Fl. Jav. Rar. 28, t. 8 ; Lindley Bot. Reg. 

 1838, t. 34, as to syn. ; Paxton's Mag. Bot. 7 : 49, 50 (1840) as 

 to syn. ; Fl. des Serres 1 : 201-203, fig. and t. 36 (1845) as to 

 syn. ; Bot. Mag. t. 4297, as to syn. in part ; Blume Rumphia 4 : 

 52, tt. 194, 199 a, excl. syn. Lindl. ; Josst Beschr. u. Cult. Orch. 

 461, as to syn. ; Reichb. f . Bot. Zeit. 10 : 672 (1852) ; Belg. Hort. 

 4 : 273, t. 42, in part ; Walp. Ann. 3 : 561, as to syn. ; Moore Orch. 



