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the flowers are made to spread widely open. In nature 
they are closed, and only the tips of the sepals and petals 
separate. 
Trine NHOTTIEZ. 
GALEOLA, Lour. 
G. gavanica, Benth. et Hook. f., Gen. Pl., iii. p. 590. 
I found a single plant of what may be this species in the 
Jungle on Maxwell’s Hill in Perak. 
G. attissima, Reichb. f., Xenia Orch., ii. p. 77. 
Hab. Singapore: Chan Chu Kang! 
Johore: Bukit Murdom! Gunong Panti! 
Penang: Curtis. 
Perak: Scortechini. 
G. Hypra, Reichb. f., Xenia Orch., ii. p. 77. 
Hab. Singapore: Kranji! Sungei Buloh ! 
Johore: Gunong Taning! 
Selangor: Kwala Lumpur, C. Curtis! 
Perak: Thaiping Hills, at Maxwell’s Hill! and 
Waterloo Estate ! 
Siam: Bangtaphan, Dr. Keith ! 
These curious plants appear in the most unexpected places, 
sometimes covering old stumps, or climbing up tree trunks in 
thick jungle, sometimes in hot and dry exposed grass fields, 
and I have even seen them clambering on roofs of native huts. 
VANILLA, Swartz. 
V. Grirritui, Reichb. f. in Bonplandia, ii. (1854) p. 88. 
V. albida, Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind., vi. p. 91 (non Blume). 
V. tolypephora, Ridl. in Trans. Linn. Soc., Ser IH. (Bot.) in. 
(1893) p. 376. 
Hab. Singapore: on Pulau Ubin, abundant ! 
Selangor: Bukit Hitam, Kelsall ! 
Malacca: Griffith. 
Perak: fide Hooker f., l.c. 
Penang: Waterfall Hill! and Telok Bahang, Curtis ! 
I have also seen this plant on the Carimon Islands. The 
natives call it “ Telinah Kerbau Bukit,” and ‘“* Akar Punubal.” 
