The Philippine 
Journal of Science 
VOL. 44 APRIL, 1931 No. 4 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE ORCHIDS, I 
By Oakes Ames 
Professor of Botany in Harvard University 
and 
Eduardo Quisumbing 
Botanist, Bureau of Science, Manila 
SIXTEEN PLATES 
Incidental to the preparation of a popular treatise on the 
orchids of the Philippines, the junior author has encountered 
several new species and varieties, descriptions of which seemed 
best to publish in a separate paper, together with notes on 
species that, though represented in other parts of the eastern 
Tropics, have not heretofore been recorded as natives of the 
Philippines. As a popular book is hardly the proper medium 
for the announcement of scientific discoveries, it is planned to 
publish in the Philippine Journal of Science a series of papers 
dealing with the new orchids now in hand and with the new 
or noteworthy species that are constantly being discovered 
through intensive exploration. Of the proposed series the pres¬ 
ent paper is the first number. 
With very few exceptions, every Philippine orchid that has 
been illustrated in scientific publications in the last quarter of 
a century has been reconstructed from dead material in which 
the delicate structures of the flowers had been altered by desic¬ 
cation. In the present series of papers it is proposed to issue 
plates that will portray the species discussed from living plants 
and will clearly represent diagnostic structures. 
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