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Bractez 4-] poll. longs. Flores 2 poll. longi. Capsule 3 poll. 
longe. 
This species is very imperfectly described by Eggers, but 
a barren specimen from him shows it to be allied to the two 
preceding, though apparently quite distinct. Reichenbach’s 
plant above mentioned, according to the description, also 
belongs here. The scales, or abortive leaves, are much larger 
than in any species of the group. 
41. VANILLA APHYLLA, Blume, Bijdr. (1825) p. 422; caulibus 
subgracilibus aphyllis; racemis brevibus paucifloris, bracteis 
fere obsoletis; sepalis petalisque lineari-oblongis subobtusis 
apice revolutis; labello trilobo, lobis lateralibus oblongis apice 
rotundatis crenulatis, intermedio oblongo obtuso v. emarginato 
marginibus reflexis et plicato-undulatis, disco medio linea 
barbaté erecta instructo; capsulis elongato-linearibus.—Blume, 
Rumphia, I. p. 198, t. 68; Lindl., Gen. and Sp. Orch., p. 436 ; 
Reichb. f. in Bonplandia, v. p. 37 ; et Otia Bot. Hamb., p. 40. 
Hab. Java, on shrubs in the alluvial region, Blume. Tjikoya, 
Zollinger, 599! In insula Nusa Kambangan, Blume. 
Internodi 2-4 poll. longi. Pedicelli 14-1} poll. longi. 
Sepala et petala 1-1} poll. longa. Labellum 1-1; poll. longum. 
Columna 3 poll. longa. Capsula 5-6 poll. longa. 
The earliest known species of this section, and easily distin- 
guished from V. Wightiana, Lindl., which has been confused 
with it, by the different structure of the flower. According to 
Blume, the sepals and petals are light green, and the lip 
lilac-purple. 
42. V. Paris, Reichb. f, Otia Bot. Hamb. (1878), p. 39 ; 
racemis brevibus, bracteis late ovato-oblongis obtusis; sepalis 
petalisque lanceolato-oblongis subacutis; labello trilobo lobis 
lateralibus oblongis apice rotundatis crenulatis intermedio 
rotundato-oblongo crenulato, disco medio longe barbato, crista 
appendicibus fimbriatis retrorsis composita.—Hook. f., Fl. Brit. 
Ind., vi. p. 90. 
Hab. Tenasserim, Parish, 286! Moulmein, Gilbert. 
Bractew 14 lin. longe. Pedicelli 14-1} poll. longi. Sepala 
et petala 1-1} poll. longa. Labellum 1-1} poll. longum. 
Columna { poll. longa. 
A very distinct species, of which an inflorescence only is 
known. According to a drawing of a single flower sent by 
