Dendrobium Sw.

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PHILIPPINE ISLANDS PLANTS
DISTRIBUTED BY A. D. E. ELMER
Dumaguete (Cuernos Mts.), Negros Oriental
island of Negros, April, 1908.
9806b Dendrobium ( ft Gasttdium), ila. badly damaged,
determinati on impossible, ^Probably neW# On lofty tre«
branches, at 4000 feet; sterna pendulous, obscurely flattened,
In anali olusters, cpite rigid, mostly unbrenohed, straw
oolor toward the atta; leaves grass like, equally green
on both sides* Its stem clasping sheaths, brown to nearly
black, slightly twisted and nearly flat; &ewers in pairs, the
pediraele arising trm the persistent lateral sheath; pedieels
bifurcate, yellowish with very fine psrplish spots; flewers
delicate, odorless, with liiap very linear segments, of a deep
«resa yellow and throughout conspicuously spotted with purple
feletwhss which are net q.uite as nwercua towards the two
faeifig spurs; the brush like organ light creemy white;
feds oblong to elongate evetd, 3/4 inch long, obscurely
^augular and aere e* less tidgedj "Balaily** Bomaguete,
blmer’s field notes
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