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long, slender. Sepals and petals similar, about 4 mm. long in ma- 

 ture flowers, subobtuse, 3-nerved. Labellum triangular-ovate to 

 ovate-lanceolate, 3 mm. long, about 2 mm. wide at base, thickened 

 at the subacute apex ; spur 3 mm. long. Column short and stout 

 with a sagittiform rostellar process, the lateral arms of which are 

 erect. Pollinia four, the gland linear. 



Flowers greenish white, Puerto Princisa, Palawan, December, 

 1905, J. Bermejos (no. 270). — Caldera, Mindanao, 1838-42, 

 Wilkes expedition (type, in hb. Gray). — On trees in low forest ; 

 fls. pale orange and white, Palawan, May, 1906, F. W. Foxwor- 

 thy (no. 884). 



Endemic. 



AERIDES Lour. 



A. LAWRENCLSI Reichb. f. Gard. Chron. n. s. 20 : 460, 307, 

 368 (1883) ; Williams Orch. Gr. Man. ed. 6, 108 and ed. 7, 86; 

 Warner & Williams Orch. Alb. 6 : t. 270; The Garden 35: 484, 

 t. 702 (1889); Veitch Man. Orch. PI. pt. 7, 71, fig.; Kranzlin 

 Xen. Orch. 3 : t. 252, f . 5. 



" Racemo elongato denso multifloro ; sepalo imparl cuneato 

 oblongo obtuso ; sepalis lateralibus latioribus ; tepalis cuneato 

 ligulatis obtusis ; labelli laciniis lateralibus oblongo-dolabratis 

 altis ; lacinia mediana ligulata denticulata crispula obtuse acuta 

 utrinque basi lobulata ; calcari conico acute incurvo, cannula tri- 

 lobula antice inclusa, callis geminis crassis postice. 111. Dominae 

 Lawrence dicatum ; ex Asia tropica importatum." — Reichenbach 

 f., I c. 



Flower-stems from among lower leaves, stalk 12-18 inches 

 in length, 15-25 flowers on each, fls. waxy white with purple tips 

 on petals, the spur greenish, Prov. Davao, Mindanao, October 24, 

 1905, Rev. R. F. Black. 



The specimen on which the above determination is based is too 



