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whether this can be considered as anything more than a very large form of C. veratri- 

 foUa, R. Br. (a most variable plant in the size of the flowers and proportions of the 

 lobes of the lip), which has a range from India, through the Malay Peninsula and 

 Islands to Australia. 



Calanthe bicalcauata, J. J. Sra. in Bull. Dep. Agric. Ind. Neerl. v. 31; and in Nova 

 Guinea, viii. 23. 

 Canoe Camp, 150 ft., and at Camp I, 500 ft. 

 " Flowers green, centres white." 

 Distrib. Endemic in New Guinea. 



AcANTHOPHiPPiTJM SPLENBiDUM, J. J, Sm. in Natuur. Tijds. Nederl. Ind. Iviii. (1898) 

 3, t. 5. 5-8. 



Camp VI a, 3100 ft. 



Distrib. Celebes and British New Guinea. 



The plant identified by me as A. javanicum, Blume, in Forbes's Collections, Journ. 

 Bot. xxiv. (1886) p. 354, appears to be this. 



Spathoglottis Vieillarbii, Reichb. fil. in Linnaea, xli. (1877) 85. 



Canoe Camp, 150 ft. ; Camps I to VI a, 500 to 3100 ft. 



" Flowers pale mauve." 



Distrib. New Caledonia. 



I cannot distinguish the plants quoted above from the species originally described by 

 Reichenbach from tbe Isle of Pines, and believe that it is widely distri])uted over the 

 far Eastern Archipelago. Like the common S. plicata, Blume, it varies in non-essential 

 parts to some extent, but I see nothing to warrant making many species out of it. 



Spathoglottis oreophila, Eidl., sp. nov. 



Tseudobulbi conici, 1 cm. longi. Folia 2-3, lineari-lanceolata, plicata, gradatim 

 acuminata, 16 cm. longa, 5-8 mm. lata. Scapus 30 cm. lougus, vaginis 1-2, laminis 

 lanceolatis obtusis 2 cm. longis. Flores pauci, versus apicem subcongesti. 

 Bractece ellipticse, lanceolatse, acuminata;, pubescentes, 1-6 cm. longae, 8 mm. latae. 

 Fedicelli 1'5 cm. longi, graciles. Ovaria 5 mm. longa, omnia velutina. Sepala 

 oblonga, obtusa, carinata, pubescentia, I'Qt cm. longa, 3 mm. lata. Petala elliptica, 

 obtusa, glabra, sequilonga, 7 mm. lata. Labelhmi bi-evius, 1*1 cm. longum, ungue 

 nullo, lobis lateralibus e basi labello ortis lanceolatis 6 mm. longis, lobo medio 

 spathulato basi lineari ad apicem rotundato-truncatura obscure emarginato gradatim 

 dilatato, costa subtus in apiculum brevem excurrente, margine ad basin hirto, 

 callis 2 rotundatis hirtis marginibus tenuibus approximatis mediocribus. Columna 

 paullo curva, 8 mm, longa, e stigmate versus basin alata. Anthera ovata, acuta, 

 clinandrio elevato. Mostellum rotundatum. 



Camps IX to XI, 5500 to 8300 ft. 



A somewhat dwarfed mountain plant, unusually pubescent. The lip is rather short 



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