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Genus ROBIQUETIA Gaudichaud 
ROBIQUETIA PANTHERINA (Kranzl.) Ames. Plates 2, 11, and 27. 
Robiquetia pantlierina (Kranzl.) Ames, Sched. Orch. 6 (1923) 95, 
in Merr. Enum. Philip. FI. PL 1 (1925) 435. 
Cleisostoma spatulatum Blume apud Naves Novis. App. (1882 ) 238. 
Saccolabium densiflorum Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 24 (1838) Misc. 56, 
quoad Philip., non Lindl. in Wall. Cat.; Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. 
6 (1864) 885, quoad Philip.; Naves, Novis. App. (1882) 241. 
Robiquetia spathulata Ames, Orch. 5 (1915) 237, non J. J. Sm. 
Saccolabium. pantherinum Kranzl. in Fedde Repert. 17 (1921) 391. 
Stem pendulous, stout, somewhat thickened and compressed, 
about 32 cm long, 5 to 10 mm in diameter. Leaves coriaceous, 
oblong, slightly contracted at the sheathing base, unequally and 
broadly bilobed at the rounded apex, 15 to 18.5 cm long, 4.5 
to 5 cm wide. Racemes opposite the leaf bases, elongate, densely 
flowered, pendulous, simple or one-branched, about 30 cm long 
including the peduncle; the peduncle stout, about 5.5 cm long, 
4 mm in diameter. Flowers odorless, fleshy, 9 to 10 mm across; 
floral bracts lanceolate, acute, 3 to 7 mm long. Pedicellate ovary 
puberulent, 6 to 8 mm long. Lateral sepals spreading, broadly 
and obliquely elliptic-obovate, slightly cucullate or almost flat¬ 
tened, rounded, about 5 mm long, 3 mm wide, the tip slightly 
bent forward. Dorsal sepal broadly elliptic or oval, rounded, 
about 4 mm long, 3 mm wide, the tip bent forward, cucullate. 
Petals spreading, more or less flattened, obovate or obovate- 
oblong, obtuse, about 3.5 mm long, 2.5 mm wide. Labellum 
adnate to the column, consisting of an infundibuliform strongly 
incurved spur which is laterally dilated, and minutely 4-lobulate 
at the apex, 3-lobed at the mouth; lateral lobes narrow, erect, 
furnished with a fleshy carinate callus inside near the irregular 
margins; middle lobe triangular, subacute, fleshy, inflexed, about 
3 mm long. There is a well-developed scale ascending obliquely 
from the anterior wall of the sac and an inconspicuous forcipate 
scale on the posterior wall. Column stout, very short. Anther 
acuminate, depressed, long-beaked. Pollinia 2, globose. 
Luzon, Manila, Bureau of Science orchid house, Bur. Sci. 
80825 Quisumbing, September 13, 1930. The living plants were 
collected from Rizal Province, in the forests, with no definite 
locality. 
The sepals and petals are covered with conspicuous macula- 
tions, the background amber yellow mottled and banded with 
brownish purple. The lateral lobes of the labellum amber yellow 
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