47, 2 
Ames and Quisumbing: Philippine Orchids, II 205 
Dendrobium junceum Lindl. was supposed in the original de¬ 
scription to have come from Singapore, but Ridley 3 doubts this 
origin and says that “what I take to be the plant intended I 
received from Manila, sent by Sr. Vidal.” A record of the type 
of D. junceum together with the sketch of the lip in the her¬ 
barium of Oakes Ames shows an identical species beyond ques¬ 
tion. The flowers of the plants from Tayabas are larger than 
those of the type specimen in Lindley’s herbarium, but similar 
to them in all salient points. The labellum in our material is 
not so prominently 3-lobed as represented in Lindley’s sketch, 
yet the central carina and the surface of the middle lobe exhibit 
no marked difference from the type material as interpreted 
by Lindley. In habit D. polytrichum Ames resembles this 
species closely. 
DENDROBIUM MODESTUM Reichb. f. Plates 1, 6, and 22. 
Dendrobium modestum. Reichb. f. in Bonpl. 3 (1855) 222, in Walp. 
Ann. 6 (1861) 281; Naves, Novis. App. (1882) 234; Kranzl. in 
Engl. Pflanzenreich IV. 50. II. B. 21 (1910) 220; Ames, Orch. 5 
(1915) 128, in Merr. Enum. Philip. FI. PI. 1 (1924) 352. 
Species D. aciculari Lindl. et D. philippinensi Ames affinis. 
Planta epiphytica 30 ad 55 cm alta. Caules purpurei; pars ba- 
salis per 7 ad 13.5 cm longa, fusiformi-incrassata, 8-angulata, 5 
a d 7 mm in diametro; pars superior teres, gracilis, 1.5 ad 2 mm 
crassa; internodia prope basim usque ad 4.5 cm longa. Folio- 
rum vaginae cylindriceae, internodiis aequilongae. Folia tere- 
tia, acicularia vel subulata, acuta, adscendentia, glabra, carno- 
sula, rigidiuscula, 5.5 ad 10.5 cm longa, 1.75 ad 2.5 mm in dia- 
nietro, quam internodia plerumque longiora. Flores pauci, pal- 
lide purpurei, singuli, versus apicem caulis. Bracteae quam 
ovarium pedicellatum breviores. Pedicellum cum ovario circiter 
7 mm longum, gracile. Sepala lateralia latissime et obliquissime 
triangularia, acuta, circiter 7 mm longa, 7 mm lata secundum 
columnae pedem, 3- ad 5-nervia, mentum obtusum formantia. 
Sepalum dorsale triangulari-lanceolatum, acutum, circiter 6.5 
mm longum, in basi 3 mm latum, 5-nervium. Petala anguste 
elliptica, obtusa, circiter 6.5 mm longa, 1.75 mm lata, 1-nervia. 
Labellum e basi sensim cuneata dilatatum, prope apicem leviter 
trilobatum, circiter 12 mm longum; lobi laterales antice sub- 
rotundati, denticulati, circiter 1.5 mm lati; lobus intermedius 
subquadratus, antice subrotundatus, denticulatus, in apice api- 
’ Journ. Linn. Soc. 32 (1896) 260. 
