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spreading, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acute, 1.4 to 1.55 cm 
long, 4.75 to 5 mm wide, 5-nerved. Labellum trilobed, subor- 
bicular-ovate in outline when expanded, saccate at the base, 
minutely ciliate on both surfaces, more so within and on the 
margins; lateral lobes semiovate with free apices, short, trian¬ 
gular, porrect, acute, 3 to 3.5 mm long; middle lobe broadly 
oblong to suborbicular, 7 to 7.5 mm long, 5.5 to 6.25 mm wide, 
the apex rounded, recurved, apiculate at the very tip; the disc 
with a pair of subparallel fleshy lamellse or ridges at the base in 
front of which stands another pair of smaller calli. Column 
long, arcuate, without a foot, slightly thickened at the apex, 
10 to 11.5 mm long. Anther semiglobose. Pollinia 2, compla- 
nate-pyriform. 
Luzon, Manila, Bureau of Science orchid house, Bur. Sci. 8U5U7 
Quisumbing, January 13, 1931. The living plants, which are 
now in cultivation in the Bureau of Science orchid house, were 
collected near Butuan, Agusan Province, Mindanao, growing 
on trees at low altitudes. The sepals and petals etruscan red or 
acajou red broadly edged with deep colonial buff; lateral lobes 
of the labellum ivory yellow dotted with ox-blood red; middle 
lobe of the labellum naples yellow and tipped with ox-blood red. 
Column pompeian red; anther light orange yellow above and 
amber brown below. 
Lindley, Bot. Reg. 27 (1841) t. 38, states—“Although the 
woods of Sincapore have been so often examined by Botanists 
it seems as if the forms of vegetation there were inexhaustible. 
The species now figured was met with by Mr. Cuming who sent 
it to Messrs. Loddiges.” This species, which is distributed over 
Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Java, and Banca and Siam, fide 
Ridley, doubtless belongs in the group with C. finlaysonicmum 
Lindl. and C. atropurpureum (Lindl.) Rolfe. It has the gen¬ 
eral habit of C. atropurpureum and resembles it in the form 
and size of leaves, but is distinct from both species in having 
very much shorter racemes, smaller flowers, and pubescent label¬ 
lum as well as in the color of the flowers. Cymbidium pubes- 
cens Lindl. is here for the first time reported from the Philip¬ 
pines, although several sterile and fruiting specimens in the 
herbarium of Oakes Ames perhaps represent it. The plant 
thrives best in orchid pots with crushed tuff as a substratum or 
in wooden baskets. The cymbidiums of the Philippines are 
some of the most hardy of orchids and they even grow luxuriantly 
perched on branches of trees. 
