NOTES ON PHILIPPINE ORCHIDS, IV. 
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finely pubescent above, with several, tubular, obtuse, sheathing, 
closely appressed bracts about 2 cm long. Raceme loosely flow- 
ered, bracts deciduous. Pedicels slender, finely pubescent, 1 cm 
long. Ovarij pubescent, about 8 mm long. Color of the flowers 
not noted. Lateral sepals 11 mm long, 3 mm wide, narrowly 
lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent. Upper sepal similar to the 
laterals and about equal to them. Petals 8 mm long, 2 mm wide, 
linear-lanceolate, acute, smooth. Labellum 7 mm long, 3-lobed. 
Lateral lobes directed forward, 3 mm long, acuminate, acute, 
margin slightly crenulate. Middle lobe flabellate, deeply emar- 
ginate, apiculate, margin crenulate or blunt-toothed. Disk 
smooth with two semi-elliptic carinae one on each lateral nerve 
in front of the column, fleshy, pubescent. Spur none. 
Luzon, Province of Zambales, Maximo Ramos, Bur. Sci. A987, December 
14, 1907. 
EULOPHIA R. Br. 
Eulophia Vanoverberghii sp. nov. 
Planta gracilis. Folia ? Racemus laxus, bracteae lineares. 
Pedicelli graciles. Sepala lateralia ligulato-oblonga, obtusa. 
Sepalum superius simile. Petala anguste elliptica. Labellum 
3-lobatum; lobi laterales baud conspicui, minuti, obtusi, lobus 
medius oblongus, obtusus. Discus papillosus, ultra columnam 
utroque callus carinatus. 
Plants slender, 2 to 4 dm tall from a large corm. Scape 
sheathed at the base by several, nervose, tubular, imbricating 
bracts, near the middle 1- or 2-bracteate. {Leaves absent at 
flowering time, not seen.) Raceme loosely flowered, 10 to 15 
cm long. Bracts of the raceme linear, about 1 cm long, about 
equaling the pedicellate ovary, erect or slightly spreading. 
Pedicels slender, smooth, about 7 mm long ; ovary smooth, about 
5 mm long at the period of anthesis. Floivers about 1 cm 
long, erect. Lateral sepals 1.4 cm long, 3.5 mm wide, ligulate- 
oblong, obtuse, green. Upper sepal similar to the laterals, 
slightly shorter. Petals 1 cm long, about 5 mm wide, narrowly 
elliptic, rounded at the tip, green. Labellum 1.3 cm long, 7 
mm wide at the tip, oblong, very obscurely 3-lobed, the lateral 
lobes minute and inconspicuous, margin wavy or fluted, nerves 
papillose, disk bilamellate at base. Sac obtuse, 1 mm long. 
Column about 11 mm long. Pollinia 2. The labellum is de- 
scribed by the collector as being yellow and all the perianth 
organs as being marked^jwith red lines. 
Luzon, Bontoc Subprovince, Father M. Vanoverbergh 336, April 2, 1910. 
“Root edible;” found 1,350 meters above sea level on hillocks. 
