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RIDLEY. 
Corolla-tube dilated upward, the lobes obovate, spathulate, hairy at the 
tip. Staminodes thin, rounded, obtuse. Cucullus small, side-lobe linear- 
oblong. Anther very short, the connective wing large, subtriangular. 
Lip small, oblong, truncate, almost quadrate, the crest large, semiovate, 
the longitudinal ridge silky. Capsule oblong, red, 1 cm long, hairy. 
Seeds nearly 1 cm long, obscurely rugose-tubercled. 
Leyte, Palo, Elmer 7289. Negros, Gimagaan River, Whitford 1658. Min- 
danao, District of Davao, Todaya, Copeland 12k8. Mindoro, Alag River, Merrill 
6132; Baco River, McGregor 31k, For. Bur. 6780, 12103 Merritt. Batan, Bur. 
Sci. 6260 Robinson. Luzon, Province of Isabela, Casiguran, Bur. Sci. 3100 
M earns: Province of Tayabas, Whitford 63k ■ Camiguin, Babuyanes Islands, Bur. 
Sci. 3936 Fdnix. 
This species is most nearly allied to P. malaccense Ridl. of the Malay Peninsula, 
differing in its more glabrous leaves, nearly glabrous sepals, and in the form 
of the lip. It has been confused with P. capitatum Willd., a Chittagong plant 
which has purple, sessile flowers. 
Endemic. 
19. MONOPHRYNIUM K. Sebum. 
Tall herbs, the leaves long-petioled. Panicles numerous, from a leaf- 
sheath, peduncled. Spikes narrow, fascicled, densely imbricate. Bracts 
small. Flowers solitary in each bract, with a two-keeled prophyll and 
mesophyll. Sepals small, lanceolate. Corolla-tube as long, the lobes 
lanceolate. Outer staminodes 2, obovate, a little longer than the corolla- 
lobes. Cucullus much shorter, with a subauricled appendage. Ovary 
3-locular, with ovules in all the loculi. 
Species 3, endemic. 
]. M. fasciculatum K. Sebum, in Pfianzenreicb 1 1 (1902) 68. 
Calatliea fasciculata Presl Rel. Ilaenk. 1 (1827) 108, t. 16, f. 1. 
Phrynium fasciculatum Horan. Monogr. (1862) 11. 
Two meters tall. Leaves oblong or subovate-lanceolate, attenuate- 
acuminate, base rounded, glabrous on both sides, 30 cm long, 8 cm wide ; 
petiole 20 cm long, the upper part 4 cm long, flattened, glabrous. 
Panicles 3 or 4, subsessile, or with an 8 cm long peduncle, the racemes 
narrow, 6 cm long. Bracts 10, ovate-oblong, obtuse, 9 mm long, gla- 
brous. Ovary silky. Sepals lanceolate, 4 mm long. Corolla-tube 3.5 
mm long, the lobes 5 mm long. 
Luzon, (Haenke) ; (Warburg 11/068) : Province of Tayabas, (Warburg 12921) , 
Elmer 91k8. 
Halmaheira. 
2. M. simplex Elmer Leafl. Philip. Bot. 1 (1908) 276. 
A tufted plant 1 to 1.5 m tall, glabrous. Leaves thin, elliptic, 
cuspidate, 18 to 20 cm long, 7 cm wide, base cuneate, the upper surface 
glabrous, beneath strigose on the nerves, knee 1 cm long, the petiole 50 
