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River Ngojo; Spennolepis lorest; 500 tt. 1003. Flowers greenish yellow, 

 lio-litly streaked with brown, lip creamy white with brown-purple streaks. 



Dexdrobium FRACTiFLRXUM Finot. Ivuakuc ; terrestrial, in woods on 

 steep liili-sides ; 500 ft. 897. Lip oscillating, dark green inside at base, 



other periantli-segments turned 



full 



magenta in middle, i)iile at apex ; 



upwards and outwards, pale dull magenta, finely spotted and veined. 



D. VERRUCIFERUM Rclll). t 



scrub; 1500 ft. 

 browiiisli. 



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Presqii'ilc Bogota ; terrestrial ; sorpentine 

 Lip hinged, green^ other periunth-seginents 



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D, PECTINATUM Fiuet. Mt. Panie; epiphyte; forest; 4000 ft^ 1816. 

 roninc; on trunks in scrubby summit woods ; 3500 ft. 1917. Flowers pale 

 yellow with reddish longitudinal streaks except on Up. 



D. Ausmo-CALEDONICUM Schlechter. River Ngoyc ; on trunks, forest 



margin; 4O0 ft. 2050. Flowers apricot-coloured ; fruit with dull yellowish 

 ridges and green furrows. 



D. ELEL'TFIEROGLOSSUM Sclilechter. Poume ; on trees in scrubby woods ; 

 1200 ft. 2372. Flowers pale yellowish green with purple pattern on lip. 



D. OoMPTONii Rondle, sp. nov. (PI, 13- fig. 13.) Planta epiphytica ; 

 cauUhus cylindricis'circa 1 cm. crassiSj siccis valde sulcatis ; foUis 4-5, npiceni 

 versus congestis lafe lanceolatis apice bilobulatis coriaceis 12—13 cm. lono-, 

 2*8-3'8 cm. Lit. ; racemis folia paullo excedentibus nuiltifloris 12-14 cm. 

 long. ; florihas carnosulis lutois externo sanguineo-puncfatis, pedicellis 

 tonuibus 1-1'5 cm. long, ; hracteis minutis, lineari-angustatis ; sepalis et 

 fetalis 8-9 mm. long. ; scp. dorsal e oblongo obtuso, sop. lateralia e basi 

 latioro late oblongo-falcara paullo excedente ; fetalis subfalcate oblongis 

 obtusis ad sepaloruin niargines coha?rentibus ; laheJlo 5 mm. long.j o-!obo, 

 lobo medio oblato 3"5 mm. long., 3 mm. lat., superne breviter acuminato disco 

 lineis 2 elevatis instructo, lobis lateralibus vix 1 nnn. longit, excedentibus 

 suborectis obtusis ; columna breve lata 2 mm. loni>-. 



Mt. Oanala ; forest ; 1000 ft. 1151. In flower June. Stems yellow^, 

 abnost covered witli the whitish thinly membranous remains of the leaf- 

 sheaths. A member of the Speciosa group, recalling the Australian 

 I). graciVicaule F. Muelh, but a much larger plant. 



BuLiiOPllYLLU.^l XEOCALEDONICUM Schlechter. Ignambi ; moist forests; 

 attuchod to trimks by long slender roots; 3000 ft. 1702. Flowers trans- 

 parent greenish. 



B. NGOYENSE Schlechtcr. No note of locality. 2044. 



B. LINGULATUM Rondle, sp. nov. Planta parva epiphytica repens, rhizo- 

 mate elongato ramoso tereti A^aglnato laxe pseudobulbis obsesso polyrhizo ; 



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