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of Formosa p. 347. The type specimen, with several duplicates, was first 

 collected by Mr. T. KAWAKAMI at Ivoshun. The plant was also found by my- 

 self in my excursion to the island in the beginning of July, 1912, on the 

 sandy ground in a clump of slu-ubs near the sea-shore on the eastern coast 

 of the south cape. 



Galera BLUME. 



Galera kusukusensis HAYATA sp. uov. (Tab. XX.) Terrestris aphylla 

 lacticolor tuberifera. Tuber oblougo-ovoideum horizoutaliter situm vel ascendens 

 1-2 cm. longum 8 mm. in diametro subnudum apice scapum siugulum gerens. 

 Scapi circ. 30 cm. longi basi squamis verticillatis iustructi a basi sursum 

 squamis remotis alteruis iustructi, squamis ovatis 1 cm. longis basi semi- 

 amplexicaulibus apice acutis, partibus floriferis 10 cm. longis, floribus l-2i-cin. 

 a se remotis, bracteis linearibus vel lauceolatis circ. 1 cm. lougis, pedicallis 

 5 mm. longis subuutantibus, ovariis globosis 5 mm. in diametro. Sepala et 

 petala semiclausa nou patentia. Sepala subsequalia linearia 10 mm. louga 

 1 mm. lata apice acuminata basi non contracta. Petala lauceolata 10mm. 

 longa quam sepalis latiora 1|- mm. lata apice acumiuata basi nou contracta. 

 Labellum valde coucavum erectum oblongum 10 mm. longum in explicato 

 8 mm. latum apice triangulari-obtusum margiue uudulato-crispatum supra pur- 

 pureo-maculatum, maculis 4, sursum mmicato-tuberculatum basi ad calcar 

 3| mm. longum productum. Columua brevissima. Eplpogon kusukusense 

 HAYATA in sched. herb. Taihoku. 



HAB. Kusukusu, leg. B. HAYATA et S. SASAKI, 1912, Juli. 



Near Galera Rolf el HAYATA (= Epipogon Rolf el HAY.); but differs from 

 it by the longer lips which are undulately crispate at the margin, and by 

 the much narrower petals. 



Galera Rolfei HAYATA (Fig. 64) Mater. Fl. Formos. p. 348. Tuber 

 solitarium 3 cm. longum 12 mm. latum elougato-ellipticum apice obtusum carno- 

 sum horizontaliter situm. Scapus circ. 35 cm. lougus incrassatus erectus rectus 

 "basi asceudens teres brunneus inferne squamis distautibus amplexicaulibus 

 obtusis tenuissimis membranaceis iustructus, superne florifer, bracteis alteruis 

 erecto-patentibus liueari-lauceolatis acuminatis membranaceis circ. 1 cm. longis 

 imi-florem amplectantibus. Flores in pedicellis filiformibus cernui aut tandem 



