tendency to branch. In March, 1910, Fiji was ravaged 
by a violent hurricane. The Stauropsis was rescued 
from the “bush house” by Mr. D. Yeoward, Curator 
of the Fiji Botanic Station, and brought intact to 
the ruins of Government House, where it was fastened 
for safety underneath a billiard table. After the storm 
it was reinstalled on its old tree-fern stem, and during 
the next seven months its spike branched to some extent, 
and produced two rather poor flowers. In November, 
1910, it was brought from Fiji by Sir Everard, and after 
a journey across Canada was sent from Liverpool to 
Kew, where it has since thriven well in the Tropical 
Orchid House, coming once more into flower in September, 
1916. During flowering the prolonged development of 
the spike described by Sir Everard as regards 1903-10 
has been equally manifest, but during 1914-16 branching 
has been more extensive. As in 1905 the plant gave 
evidence of having flowered during 1904, it is possible 
that in S. Imthurnii we may have a species which flowers 
only at definite periods. In keeping with this suggestion 
is the fact that in October, 1910, an imperfect dried 
specimen, accompanied by a sketch of a plant of this 
Stauropsis, was received at Kew from Mr. C. M. Woodford, 
then British Resident at Tulagi, Solomon Islands. 
Mr. Woodford found his plant in August, 1910, when the 
flowering period appeared to be nearly over, on the north 
side of Ysabel Island, and has noted that he had met 
with the species once before, but that on the first occasion 
it was not in flower. 
Description.—Herb, epiphytic; stem short, stout, erect, 14 in. thick. 
Laves arcuate, firmly coriaceous, elongate-ligulate, acute, 24-4 ft. long, 
2-3 in. wide, imbricate and dilated at the base into stem-clasping sheaths. 
Scape erect, laxly paniculately branched, about 8 ft. long; branches 4-8 in. 
long, loosely many-flowered; bracts short, spreading, wide ovate, obtuse, 
1-1} in. long, pedicels over 2 in. long. Flowers medium-sized, somewhat 
fleshy, 13-1} in. wide. Sepals and petals spreading, subspathulate-ovate, 
obtuse, 2-3 in. long. Lip short-clawed, fleshy, 3-lobed, saccate in the middle, 
3-3 in. long; lateral lobes erect, orbicular oblong, about } in. long; mid-lobe 
inflexed, wide oblong, obtuse, prominently keeled. Colwmn broad, } in. long. 
Pollinia obovoid-oblong ; stipe wide-oblong ; gland scale-like. 
Tas. 8714.—Fig. 1, lip and column; 2, part of the lip, showing the sac; _ 
3, anther-cap; 4, pollinarium; 5, sketch of an entire plant :—all enlarged 
except 5, which is much reduced. 
