52,4 Ames and Quisumbing: Philippine Orchids, IV 465 
locality, For. Bur. 19519 W. Klemme, January, 1911: Davao 
Province, Astorga, Copeland, s. n. April 29, 104; Mati, Bur. Sci. 
49026 Ramos and Edaho, June 28, 1929. Tawi-Tawi, Sulu 
Province, Bur. Sci. 4-4245 Ramos and Edaho, July 19, 1924. 
A common endemic species in the Philippines, up to 300 meters 
altitude. The typical form is colored thus: Sepals and petals 
are margined with primrose yellow, at the center deep colonial 
buff or honey yellow to orange-cinnamon with the base Etrus¬ 
can red. Labellum white with mallow pink on both sides of the 
central ridge; appendage in the sac between the basal lobes 
yellow. Column white with a liseran purple line around it. 
A species characterized by its cruciform 5-lobed labellum and 
its solitary flowers opposite the axils of the leaves. 
In the herbarium of the Bureau of Science are two plants 
with different colored flowers. These plants must be referred 
to this species. The data are: (a) Bur. Sci. 85576 Eduardo 
Quisumbing, May 20, 1929. Living plant originally was col¬ 
lected by the late Mr. Maximo Ramos from Catanduanes. Se¬ 
pals and petals white to marguerite yellow, splashed or barred 
with dragon’s blood red or jasper red (Plate 2, fig. 12). (b) 
Bur. Sci. 85557 Eduardo Qiiisumbing, August 8, 1931. Living 
plant was originally collected in Davao Province, without definite 
locality. Sepals and petals are madder brown and margined by 
reed yellow (Plate 2, fig. 13). 
STAUROPSIS PHILIFFINENSIS (Lindl.) Reichb. f. var. BRACHIATA (Ames) comb. nov. 
Plate 3, figs. 11 and 12; Plate 7, figs. 10 to 18; Plate 16, fig. 2. 
Trichoglottis brachiata Ames Orch. 7 (1922) 136, in Merr. Enum. 
Philip. FI. PI. 1 (1925) 440. 
The original description reads as follows: 
“Aff. T. philippinensis Lindl. Caules plus minusve 30 cm alti, rigidi, 
usque ad apicem foliati, vaginis foliorum obtecti, usque ad 8 mm. in cras- 
situdine, internodiis 1.4 cm. longis. Folia plus minusve 4.5 cm. longa, 
2.9 cm. lata, oblongo-elliptica, disticha, retusa, apiculata, apiculo rigido, 
acuto. Flores laterales, e nodis orientes, singuli. Pedicellus cum ovario 
usque ad 3.5 cm. longus. Sepala lateralia patentia, 21 mm. longa, 11 mm. 
lata, ovato-lanceolata, acuta, coriacea. Sepalum dorsale simile. Petala 2 
cm. longa, 6 mm. lata, anguste lanceolata, utrinque attenuata, subacuta, 
valde coriacea, patentia. Labellum 19 mm. longum, quinquelobatum, usque 
ad medium columnae affixum, ecalcaratum, basi saccatum vel valde con- 
cavum; lobi basilares erecti, trianguli, carnosi, circa 3 mm. alti, intus 
minute pubescentes; lobi laterales 8 mm. longi, usque ad 1.5 mm. lati, aci- 
naciformes, apice inaequaliter dentati, utrinque minute pubescentes; lo- 
bus terminalis a latere complanatus, 9 mm. longus, 5 mm. altus, carnosus, 
