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Podochilus Cumingii Schlechter in Fedde’s Repertorium 3 (1907) 19. 
I refer here specimens gathered in Mindanao and Luzon. The mentuni formed 
by the lateral sepals is deeply saccate. The label him is lanceolate and at the base 
where it joins the slender claw produced into a subquadrate appendage. This 
appendage is truncate and not at all emarginate or bifid. Hooker’s description 
of P. microphyllus Lindl. in the “Flora of British India” agrees in detail with 
my material except for the height of the plants which in Hooker’s material is 
greater than in mine. Schlechter refers the species described by Hooker to P. 
sciuroides. P. sciuroides appears to be closely related to P. Cumingii. In his 
monograph of the Podochilinae Schlechter describes the labellum of P. Cumingii as 
5-nerved. My material has the labellum 3-nerved with the lateral nerves branched. 
Schlechter describes the labellum of P. sciuroides as 3-nerved with the laterals 
branched. P. sciuroides is a taller species than P. Cumingii. In the specimens 
from Mindanao the stems are randy more than 1 dm long. For the present it 
seems best to adopt for the Philippine species the name proposed by Schlechter. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keitliley, Mary Strong Clemens s. n., Sep- 
tember, 1907. Luzon, Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, Copeland s. n., 
November 23, 1907, in moss on trees, flowers white; Bur. Sci. 1678 Foxworthy, 
October 17, 1900: Province of Pampanga, Mount Arayat, Merrill J/260, September 
15, 1905, epiphyte on mossy trees at an altitude of 820 m. 
Although the flowers are described as white by the collectors, they appear, 
when dried, to have been tinged with purple. 
Schlechter, in his monograph, does not use the name P. Cumingii, In the 
“Repertorium” l. c., however, he asserts that the Philippine plant referred to 
P. Zollingeri in his monograph constitutes a new species for which he proposes 
the name P. Cumingii. 
Podochilus plumosus sp. nov. 
Planta parvula, glabra, pkimosa, simplex. Folia distieha, linearia, 
circa 1 cm longa, 1 mm lata, acuta, approximata. Flores terminates et 
laterales. Pedunculus folio brevior. Bracteae inflorescentiae imbricatae. 
Sepala lateralia lanceolata, acuta, 1-nervia, circa 3 mm longa. Sepalum 
dorsale ovato-lanceolatum, acutum, 1-nervium. Petala oblanceolata vel 
elliptica, subacuta vel obtusa, 1-nervia, 2 mm longa, 1 mm lata. La- 
bellum rhombicum, ad basim sagittatum, 3 mm longurn, 2 mm latum. 
Rostellum quadridentatum. Capsula 6 mm longa. 
P. plumosus is a graceful species, the leafy stems of which have the appearance 
of feathers and suggest the leaves of Taxodium distichum. The flowers are 
produced singly on short peduncles which are almost completely hidden by scarious 
imbricating bracts. The labellum is rhombic above the sagittate base and hardly 
acute at the apex. P. plumosus belongs doubtfully to § Apista. Doubtfully, be- 
cause according to Sclilechter’s remarks § Apista is always characterized by hav- 
ing the inflorescence terminal. Our species is hardly a member of § Appendicula 
and probably forms a transition between it and § Apista, having all the characters 
of the latter group and in addition a lateral as well as a terminal inflorescence. 
From P. Cumingii, P. plumosus is readily distinguished by the more slender, 
longer leaves and by the very different inflorescence, as well as by the position 
of the flowers. 
Luzon, Province of Zambales, Mount Tapulao, Bur. Sci. 1/.763 Ramos, Decem- 
ber, 1907, Bur. Sci. 3986 Curran (flowered in orchid house, Manila, March, 1908) : 
Province of Tayabas (Infanta), Whitford 803, September 11. 1904, on rocks and 
trees along the Tinuan River, altitude about 80 m. 
