PLATANTHERA CHLORANTHA WITH THREE SPURS. 391 
SPECIES EXCLUDENDÆ. 
Codonopsis albiflora, Griff. Not. iv. 219 = Campanum a celebica. 
Codonopsis celebica, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 566 = Campanumea celebica. 
Codonopsis cashmeriana, Royle, Ilust. Bot. Him. 4502 Campanula 
eashmiriana. 
Codonopsis cordata, Hassk. in Кеба, i. 9— Campanumea javanica. 
Codonopsis cordifolia, Kom. in Act. Hort. Petrop. xxix. (1908) p. 108= 
Campanumea javanica, 
Codonopsis gracilis, Hook. f. & Thoms. Illust. Him. Pl. t. 16 д = Lepto- 
codon gracilis. 
Codonopsis inflata, Hook. f. & Thoms. in Journ. Linn. Soe. ii. (1858) 13 
= Campanumwa inflata. 
Codonopsis javanica, Hook. f. & Thoms. Illust. Him. Pl. t. 16 B= Cam- 
рапитега javanica. 
Codonopsis leucocarpa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 565 = Campanumea celebica. 
Codonopsis parviflora, Wall. Cat. n. 1300 = Campanumea parviflora. 
Codonopsis truncata, Wall. Cat. n. 1301 2 Campanumea celehica. 
Another Specimen of Platanthera/ehiovantha with Three Spurs. 
Ву W. Borrixa. Hemknry, F.R.S., F.L.5. 
(With 2 Text-figures.) 
[Read 19th March, 1908.] 
Wary last year T exhibited and described before the Society an inflorescence 
of Platanthera chlorantha in which all the flowers were three-spurred, and 
the Society did me the honour of publishing my description and figures. 
This led to a communication from the Rev. E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock, who 
informed me that somewhere about the year 1902 a lady of Bath sent 
him a Platanthera to name. 16 turned out that this had three-spurred 
flowers, and he showed it round at the time, but nobody took any particular 
interest in it and he finally placed it in the county herbarium at Lincoln. 
Mr. Woodruffe-Peacoek kindly offered to try to recover the specimen 
should I care to see it. In view of the great rarity of this kind of 
metamorphosis, Г gladly accepted this offer, and I think the resalt of my 
examination of the specimen is of sufficient. importance to bring it before 
the Society. 
In the specimen I exhibited last year the additional spurs were develop- 
ments of the lateral sepals. Now, the normal spur of an orchid flower 
is a basal appendage of the labellum, one of the petal series, produced 
below the point of its attachment; so that was an instance of what 
