np:w or noteworthy orchids 
temnervium. Petala oblonga, subspathulata, quinquenervia, 
apice angustata. Labellum simplex, supra basim in laminam 
elliplicam emarginatam concavam expansum, nervis con- 
spicue papillosis, usque ad apicem carinatum. Columna 
elongata, superne dilatata. 
A scandent herb rooting at the nodes of the more or less 
rigid leafless stems. Inflorescence much branched, paniculi- 
form, many-flowered. Flower-bearing branches 4-5 cm. 
long. Flowers quaquaversal on thickened axes. Floral- 
axis, or that part of the much-branched inflorescence which 
bears the flowers, 2-3 cm. long, up to 3 mm. thick, smooth, 
ten or more flowered, rigid. Bracts that subtend each 
floral branch foliaceous, 3 cm. or more long. Lateral sepals 
1.7 cm. long, about 5 mm. wide above the middle, oblong, 
dilated gradually toward the apex, strongly concave, some¬ 
what cucullate at the tip, fleshy. Dorsal sepal about 1.5 cm. 
long, 4 mm. wide near the middle, oblong, slightly narrowed 
toward the base, 7-nerved, apex cucullate. Petals 1.9 cm. 
long, 3 mm. wide near the middle, oblong, somewhat dilated 
upward, 5-nerved. Labellum 1.5 cm. long, simple, about 
8 mm. wide above the middle, more or less elliptical in out¬ 
line with a deeply emarginate apex, the basal margin ad¬ 
herent to the base of the slender column, upper surface 
(chiefly along the veins) studded with erect papillose 
emergences. Disc with a thin dorso-ventrally flattened 
lamella which extends from the base of the column for 
two thirds of the length of the labellum and then becomes 
abruptly narrowed into a raised laterally compressed keel 
which extends to the tip of the labellum. Column 1 cm. 
long, slender, suddenly dilated near the tip. Capsules 
fusiform 8-13 cm. long. 
In habit Galeola philippinensis resembles G. altissima 
Reichb. f., but has larger and very different flowers. The 
structure of the labellum suggests the Australian G. Ledgeri 
F. V. Muell. 
Philippines, Luzon, Sorsogon Province, Irosin, Mount 
Bulusan, A. D. E. Elmer 16122. May 1916. (Type in Herb. 
Ames No. 16070.) 
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