464 The Philippine Journal of Science 1933 
The original description reads as follows: 
“* * * foliis aubrotundo-ovatis emarginatis mucrone interjecto, sepa- 
lis oblongo-lanceolatis patulis, petalis reflexis linearibus brevioribus, labello 
esaccato pubescente secus axin villoso oblongo convexo apice hastato-trilobo 
dentibus baseos brevibus rotundatis. Philippines. Cuming.” Lindley, loc. 
cit. 
Tall, branched epiphyte (the herbarium specimens often sim¬ 
ple). Roots greatly elongate, simple or branched, whitish. 
Stems erect (often tending to twist) up to 130 cm high, 5 to 10 
mm in diameter, somewhat flattened; internodes up to 2.5 cm 
long. Leaves light green, oblong, oblong-ovate, or ovate-elliptic, 
distichous, retuse, mucronate, carinate, 2 to 9 cm long, 1.4 to 3.5 
cm wide, thick, rigid. Flowers solitary, opposite the axils of 
the leaves, odorless or fragrant, lasting for several weeks on 
the stems without drying, 3 to 3.5 cm across, fleshy. Peduncles 
very short or none. Bracts imbricate at the base, minute, mem¬ 
branaceous. Lateral sepals ovate to lanceolate, acute, 1.5 to 
1.9 cm long, 8 to 10 mm wide, apex abruptly recurved. Dorsal 
sepal lanceolate-elliptic, acute to subacute, 1.5 to 1.8 cm long, 
3.5 to 8 mm wide. Petals narrower than the sepals, linear- 
oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, subacute or obtuse, 
1.5 to 1.7 cm long, 4 to 4.5 mm wide. Labellum 5-lobed, cruci¬ 
form, acute, 14 to 19 mm long; two basal lobes erect, triangular, 
short, subacute or obtuse, 1.75 to 2 mm long, firmly united with 
the column at the base; lateral lobes near the middle triangular 
to subquadrate-oblong, acute to obliquely truncate, white, 1.5 to 
7.5 mm long. Entire disc laterally flattened and fleshy, 3 to 
7 mm thick, strongly angled below near the apex, white, upper 
surface villose with white hairs; beneath the hairs mallow pink. 
Between the basal lobes within the shallow sac there is a 
quadrate yellow hairy appendage. Column fleshy, stout, about 
6 mm long. 
Cuming 214.0 (Philippines), without definite locality (type of 
Trichoglottis philippinensis Lindl. in Herb. Brit. Mus.). 
Luzon, Bulacan Province, Angat, Bur. Sci. 21680 Ramos, Sep¬ 
tember 23, 1913: Cavite Province, Maragondong, Merrill U188, 
July 30, 1930: Rizal Province, Mt. Alban, Loher 6023, July 9, 
1905. Negros, Hermosa, For. Bur. 17U60 Curran, September 
29, 1909. Cebu, Algot, Lange 18630, November, 1928. Pala¬ 
wan, without definite locality, Watling 1757Ji, May, 1927. Min¬ 
danao, Surigao Province, Surigao, Bur. Sci. 3J t 5J t 2 Ramos and 
Pascasio, April 9, 1919: Misamis Province, without definite 
