Tau. 7013. 

 SPATHOGLOTTIS Vjeillardi. 



Native of the Sunda Archipelago and Neiv Caledonia. 



Nat. Ord. Obchide^:. — Tribe Epidendbeje. 

 Genus Spathoglottis, Blume; (Benth. et liook.f. Gen. PL vol. iii. p. 511.) 



Spathoglottis (Elatiores) Vieillardi; elata, pseudobulbis demum fere nudis 

 ovoideis, foliis 1-2-pedalibus elongato-lanceolatis scusiin acuminatis cre- 

 berrime costato-plicatis, scapo robusto vaginis paucis breviusculis instruct o, 

 floribus subcorymbosis, bracteis amplis late ovatis concavis, perianthio amplo, 

 sepalis petalisque conformibus ovato-oblongis sub;icutis jtallide lilacinif, label li 

 parvi lobis lateralibus erectis oblongis truneatis ocluacco-fuscis, terminal! 

 longe gracile stipitato trapezi forme v. late obcordato lilacino, callis ad basin 

 loborum lateralium utrinque 2 aureis 2-lobis. 



S. Vieillardi, Reichb.f. in Linncea, vol. xli. p. 85. 



S. Augustorum, Beichb.f. in Lindenia, vol. i. t. 25. 



Spathoglottis Vieillardi was first made known by Dr. 

 Reichenbach's description published in the Linnaea in 

 1877, taken from specimens collected between 1861 and 

 1867 in New Caledonia by the botanist whose services and 

 name it deservedly commemorates. It had, however, been 

 previously collected (in 1853) in the Isle of Pines (one 

 of the same group) by Mr. MacGillivray, naturalist to 

 Captain Denham's voyage to the Pacific, specimens from 

 which source are in the Kew Herbarium. On the Spatho- 

 glottis Augustorum flowering at Kew, Mr. N. E. Brown 

 recognized its identity with the previously published S. 

 Vieillardi, and I am unable to detect any difference be- 

 tween the two plants. It is to be observed, however, that 

 the Straits of Sunda, from whence S. Augustorum was sent 

 by the two collectors, Auguste Linden and Auguste De 

 Ronne, are very far from the New Caledonia Archipelago, 

 and the presence of the same terrestrial orchid in such 

 distant localities was hardly to have been anticipated. 

 Apparently the same species has been collected in the 

 Banda Islands by Mr. Moseley when on the " Challenge " 

 Expedition in 1875. Mr. Linden states that the figure in 



8EPTEMBEE 1ST, 1888. 



