toward the base, descending, m4 aecendingly curved 
toward the tipi levves pale green, thickly coriaceous, 
descending, depress along the middle on the upper side, 
tips slightly recurved; flowers pendant from the upper 
opposite leaves, calyx green, petale atropurpureus, 
odorlesei Cebadbaran, September, 1912. 
15756. Thelssis elongsts Dim. "Baga-bage” in 
Ranobo. ClLumps upon trees 16 feet from the moss 
covered ground on 2 wind-awept ridge of Naeay at 6000 
feet; leaves ascending, in pairs from flattish round 
pseudobulbs, one of the leaves reduced to 4 amall brect, 
the areen pesudobulbs themeelves surrounded by green 
bracts; blades thiekly coriaceous, % trifle peler beneath , 
the midrib ridged benesth, depressed above, and strongly 
folded toward the base; the combined petiole green and 
somewhat compressed; epike erect, terete, green, fow 
bracteate; the odorless flowers from all sides of the 
rachis, divarieate, bracts easteneus, ovary green, floral 
parts greenish white but turning yellowish with age; 
fabadbaran, September, 1912, 
13757, Dendroshilum arechnites Reich». *‘Salojan- 
Léjan" in Manobo, Small tufte upon amall or large. sx 
moss covered stems on a wind-swept ridce at 8750 feet 
of Magay; @tems several, up to 6 inches long, rigid, 
deecending from baee but strongly curved upwardly, 
covered with dry sheaths end provided with ascending 
dark green and shining pseudobulbs; leaves solitary 
from the apex of the bulbs, the slender and green petiole 
ageending; blades horizontsl, flat or only tips recurved, 
similar green on both sides, flexible; spikes in pairs 
from the basal px opposite sides of the leaf bearing 
pseudobulbs, slender, terete, yellowish, at the bese 
provided with dry bracts, the middle bracts yellowieh 
- green, the flower bearing portion strongly recurved, 
otherwise ascending; odorless flowers in 2 opposite 
rows, divaricately spreading, soft in texture, tul piue 
reus except the brown subtanding bracts; Cabadberan, 
September, 1912. 
13768,  Whraetia suleata J. J, Sn. *Lopad-lLopad" 
in #anobo. On mossy tree trunks in a very humid flat 
vetween the Vaeay peake at 6000 feet; mx clusters sub} 
erect; the leaves in an unequal pair from pale green 
subterete etelke, 2nd from shesth covered flattish green 
peeudobulba, sscending, only epex slightly recurved, 
very deep shining green above, much paler beneath, 
folded toward the base, leathery; epike suberect, terete, 
green, arising from the base of the bulb, somewhat 
crooked, odorless flowers divericate, bracts green 
with brown wargins, ovary greenish to yellowish, corolie 
white;  Cabsdbaran, September, 1912. 

