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curving, about 42 cm long including the peduncles. Flowers 
fragrant, 3.1 to 3.2 cm across. Sepals and petals white faintly 
washed at center with sea-foam yellow, and devoid of purple at 
the tips. Lateral lobes of labellum white, the tips overlapping 
below the middle lobe; middle lobe rose-pink, margin denticulate. 
Spur goose green. Column white. Pedicellate ovary pale dull 
green-yellow. 
Luzon, Manila, Bureau of Science orchid house, Phil. Nat. 
Herb. 106 Quisumbing, January 13, 1933. According to Mr. 
L. H. Phillips, formerly of the Philippine Packing Corporation, 
Cagayan de Misamis, Mindanao, who furnished the junior au¬ 
thor with a living plant in flower, the Hon. Manuel Fortich, rep¬ 
resentative from Bukidnon, collected two plants from his ranch 
in Bukidnon Province, Mindanao. 
As far as we know, this is the first time a white variety of 
Aerides Lawrenciae has been reported. The variety closely re¬ 
sembles the species in habit and general features, but differs in 
its white flowers. To Representative Fortich, of Bukidnon 
Province, this interesting and newly discovered variety is de¬ 
dicated. 
ACRIDES LAWRENCIAE Reichb. f. var. PUNCTATA Ames and Quis. var. nor. Plate 2, 
figs. 5 and 6. 
Habitu speciei similis, floribus purpureis punctatis differt. 
In habit and general features this variety resembles the spe¬ 
cies. The flowers are large, fragrant, about 3 cm across. Pe¬ 
tals and sepals white tipped with true purple. Lateral lobes of 
the labellum white, dotted conspicuously with true purple, the 
dots extending up to the spur; the front lobe of the labellum 
true purple. The tip of the spur is buckthorn brown. 
LUZON, Manila, Bureau of Science orchid house, Phil. Nat. 
Herb. 107 Quisumbing, November 12, 1932. The plant was orig¬ 
inally collected by Mr. L. H. Phillips in the mountains of Caga¬ 
yan de Misamis, Mindanao. 
This variety is characterized by the conspicuous purple dots 
on the sides of the lateral lobes of the labellum. 
Genus RENANTHERA Loureiro 
RENANTHERA ELONGATA Lindl. Plate 2, fi*. 7; Plate 4, figs. 18 to 25; Plate 8. 
Renanthera elongata Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. PI. (1833) 218; Ames 
Orch. 5 (1915) 224, Bot. Mus. Leaf). Harv. Univ. 2 (1934) 31. 
Renanthera micrantha Blume, Rumphia 4 (1848) 54, Mus. Bot. Lugd.- 
Bat. 1 (1849) 60; Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. 3 (1852) 566; Miq. 
FI. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 698; Naves, Novis. App. (1882) 240. 
