NOTES ON PHILIPPINE ORCHIDS, III. 
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In the Herbarium of the Bureau of Science there are two specimens which 
in my opinion belong to this species. One of these is typical, the other has 
purplish flowers and probably represents the variety fusca. 
Luzon, Rizal Province, Bur. Sci. 4667 Maximo Ramos , August, 1907. 
Var. fusca cf. Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 24: 335. 
Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Bur. Sci. ,3492 Major E. A. Means, July, 1907. 
M. latifolia is a variable species which is found in Java, Sumatra, Borneo, 
Siam, China, New Guinea and Australia. (Cf. fig. GLXXXV in the third 
volume of plates which accompany J. J. Smith’s “De Orchideen von Java”). 
Malaxis Macgregorii sp. nov. 
Planta foliosa. Caulis vix incrassatus: Folia .6-9, lanceolata, acum- 
inata, acuta, multinervia, 5-11 cm longa, 3 cm lata. Petiolus latus, 
vaginans, 3 cm longus. Inflorescentia, cum pedunculo 1.5 dm longa, 
foliis longior. Flores in racemo laxo languente, circiter 1 cm distantes. 
Bracteae lineari-lanceolatae dependentes. Sepala lateralia elliptica, ob- 
tusa, 3 mm longa. Sepalum dorsale simile. Petala lineari-oblonga, 
circiter 2 mm longa. Labellum 4 mm longum, auriculatum; lobus medius 
subquadratus, ad apicem bifidus; auriculae magnae; in sinu utroque 
prope basim lobi medii dentes 2 stant. 
Polillo, Bur. Sci. 10440 R. G. McGregor, October 19, 1909, terrestrial. 
Malaxis Macgregorii is nearly allied to M. dentata Ames and to Microstylis 
miorantha Hook. f. (cf. “leones Plantarum” pi. 1834). The flowers of Malaxis 
dentata are smaller, however, and the different middle lobe of the labellum 
is quite distinctive. According to field notes the flowers of M. Macgregorii are 
rose-carmine. 
Malaxis Ramosii sp. nov. 
Herba 1—2 dm alta in anthesi. Caulis brevis, circiter 3 cm longus. 
Folia 3, lanceolata, acuminata, acuta, 4-10 cm longa, 1.5-3 cm lata, 
nervosa. Pedunculus 7-16 cm longus, foliis longior. Bracteae lineari- 
lanceolatae acuminatae, acutae, 3 mm longae, dependentes. Racemus 
usque ad 9 cm longus. Flores 3-5 mm distantes, circa 9 mm in diametro. 
Pedicelli circiter 6 mm longi. Sepala lateralia ovata, 3-nervia, 4 mm 
longa, 3 m m lata. Sepalum dorsale ovato-lanceolatum, 3-nervium, 5 mm 
longum, 3 mm latum. Petala rbombico-lanceolata, 4.75 mm longa, 3 
mm lata, 3-nervium. Labellum integerrimum, rotundatum, a basi labelli 
ad apicem 2 mm longum; atcriculae oblongae, obtusae, 1 mm longae. 
Columna brevis, ad basim columnae dens, vel papilla a tergo. 
Luzon, Rizal Province, Bosoboso, Bur. Sci. 4567 Maximo Ramos, August 14, 
1907. 
M. Ramosii is closely allied to M. balctbacensis from which it differs in its 
smaller size and larger flowers. The petals of M. lalalacensis are narrower in 
relation to their length and not so rhombic as those of M. Ramosii; then again 
the peduncles of M. balabacensis are much longer in relation to the leaves. 
