ORCHIDACEiE 



prope basim, triangulari-lanceolata, subacuta, trinervia, textura 

 subcarnosa, mentum 2.5 mm. longum formantia. Sepalum dor- 

 sale 9 mm. longum, usque ad 3.25 mm. latum, oblongo-ellip- 

 ticum, acutum, trinervium. Petala vix 4 mm. longa, circa 1 mm. 

 lata prope apicem, oblongo-spathulata, carnosa, valde obtusa, 

 apice rotundata, intus dense papillosa, margine papilloso-ciliata. 

 Labellum 5 mm. longum, linguiforme, abrupte acutum, circuitu 

 ovato-oblongum, margine bene ciliata, prope basim bitubercula- 

 tum, utrinque carinatum. Columna utrinque triangulari-cuspi- 

 data. 



Allied with B. dasypetalum Rolfe and B. Clemensiae Ames, 

 but in habit resembles more closely B. Vanoverberghii Ames 

 from which it is clearly distinguished by its larger flowers in 

 shorter, fewer flowered racemes. 



Benguet Subprovince, Mount Boadan, M. Ramos S^ G. Edano 79, Septem- 

 ber 27, 1921. In mossy forest. Flowers whitish yellow. 6800 feet altitude. 



CALANTHE R. Br. 



Calanthe angustifolia {Bl) Lindl Gen. & Sp. Orch. (1833) 

 251 ; Fol. Orch. Calanthe (1854) 5. Amblyglottis angustifoHa Bl. 

 Bijdr. (1825) 369. Calanthe phajoides Reichb.f. Xen. Orch. 1 

 (1856) 207, t. 79, f. II; in Bonpl. 5 (1857) 37. Alismorchis an- 

 gustifolia Ktze. Rev. Gen. PL 2 (1891) 650. Alismorchis phajoides 

 Ktze. Rev. Gen. PI. 2 (1891) 650. 



This species was collected for the first time in the Philippines 



by Elmer D. Merrill in November 1906 on Mount Halcon, Min- 



doro, at an altitude of 2300 feet. The specimens collected in the 



Mountain Province by Ramos and Edano are the first that I 



have seen from Luzon. 



Benguet Subprovince, Mount Simakoko, M. Ramos ^ G. Edano 8^, Oc- 

 tober 5, 1921. On the ground in mossy forest. Flowers white with pink 

 interior. 5600 feet altitude. 



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