358 MR. W. B. HEMSLEY ON THE BOTANICAL 
in other respects it is nearer E. hypericifolia, as defined in 
Hooker’s ‘Flora of British India; and, as there limited, it is 
dispersed nearly all over the tropics. 
CLEIDION JAVANICUM, Blume.—India, including the Deccan, 
Ceylon, and Malaya. 
Macaranoa Tanartus, Muell. Arg.-—Malay peninsula and 
archipelago. 
URTICACEE. 
CUDRANIA JAVANICA, Tree —Eastern Africa, India, Malaya, 
and Eastern Australia. 
LAPORTEA CRENULATA, Gaud.—India and Malaya. 
FLEURYA RUDERALIS, Gaud.— Malay archipelago and Poly- 
nesia. 
ORCHIDEE. 
(By R. A. Rorrz, A.L.S.) 
Prrrarra Listert, Rolfe, n. sp.— Planta dense cæspitosa, 
214 poll. alta. Folia anguste linearia, obtusa, basi attenuata, 
2-31 poll. longa, 13-2 lin. lata, subdisticha. Scapi erecti, gra- 
ciles, 21-3 poll. longi, bracteis subulato-lanceolatis, 1-13 lin. 
longis, floribusque subsessilibus minutissimis. Sepala ovata, sub- 
acuta, jlin.longa. Petala sepalis subsimiles, minora. — Labellum 
cochleato-elliptieum, concavum, integrum, basi contractum, sepalis 
paullo longius. Columna brevissima. | Capsula elliptico-oblonga, 
14 lin. longa.—On tree-trunks. 
In habit this plant resembles P. limenophylax, Benth., from 
Norfolk Island, and P. minutiflora, Liudl., from Borneo, though 
its leaves are longer than in either. To the latter it is very 
closely allied, both in the size and structure of its flowers ; but 
in that species the lip is gradually narrowed towards the base. 
Lindley's drawing represents three linear basal keels, whilein 
the present one the lip narrows very abruptly, and the crest 
appears to be rather of the nature of a spherical somewhat swollen 
callus ; but this point was diffieult to make out in the excessively 
minute dried flowers. The present species is twice the size of the 
Bornean one. 
PrrEATIA coNGESTA, Rolfe, n. sp.— Planta repens, 4-5 poll. 
