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Sepals oblong. Upper sepal 24 mm. long. Laterals 21 mm. 

 long. Petals 2 cm. long, spathulate. Labellum 15 mm. long ; 

 lateral lobes 4 mm. long, obliquely truncate at the apex, carinate 

 on the outer side, constricted near the middle, where is situated 

 a verruciform tubercle ; on the disc in front of the lateral lobes 

 a forked erect plate, and between this plate and the hairy crest 

 of the terminal lobe an erect, membranous lamina ; apical lobe 

 coarsely toothed on each side near the tip, oval-oblong, narrow or 

 cuneate. 



Epiphyte, fls. white striped with brown, alt. 650 m., Lamao River, 

 Mt. Mariveles, Prov. Bataan, Luzon, February 18, 1905, H. N. 

 Whitford (no. 1097). — Fls. spotted with purple, Prov. Davao, 

 Mindanao, flowering in Manila, June 19, 1905, A. Loher (no. 

 6011). — Petals with lilac-purple bars inside, Prov. Laguna, Luzon, 

 flowering in Manila, June 11, 1905, A. Loher (no. 6005). — 

 Camp Keithley, Lake Lanao, Mindanao, June, 1903, Mary Strong 

 Clemens (no. 626). — Fls. pale greenish with purple spots, Rio 

 Canina, Palawan, alt. 235 m., on tree overhanging river, April 22, 

 1906, F. W. Foxworthy (no. 418 — hb. no. 792). 



P. Lueddemanniana is a variable species both in the size of 

 the flowers and in the form of the labellum. 

 Endemic. 



Var. DELICATA Reichb. f. Gard. Chron. 1865, 434; Bur- 

 bidge The Garden 22: 118-119 (1882); Rolfe Gard. Chron. 

 n. s. 26: 277 (1886) and Lindenia 8: 63, sub t. 366 (1892); 

 Stein Orchideenb. 508; Veitch Man. Orch. PI. pt. 7, 30. — P. 

 Lueddemanniana Bateman Bot. Mag. t. 5526 (1865); Fl. des 

 Serres 16: 53, t. 1636 (1865); Bateman 2d Cent. Orch. t. 133. 

 — Perianth with very narrow stripes, basal half amethyst-colored. 



Var. HIEROGLYPHICA Reichb. f. Gard. Chron. ser. 3, 2: 

 586 (1887); l'Orchidophile 9: 194 (1889); Rolfe Lindenia 8: 

 63, sub t. 366 (1892) ; Veitch Man. Orch. PI. pt. 7, 31 ; Stein 

 Orchideenb. 508. — "Sepals and petals cream-white, covered with 



