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Habitat New Guinea. 

 Case of synanthy. 



Dendrobium Mirbelianum Gaud. 



Coll. Mr. J. Demmeni in suo liorto Batavia, March 1913. 



Habitat New Guinea. 



ColuQin with a liplike appendage on one of its margins. 



Bulbophyllum apod urn Hook. f. 

 Coll. J. J. S. in horto bog., June 1913. 

 Habitat Malaya. 

 Pseudobulb with two leaves. 



Grammatophyllum speciosum Bl. 



Coll. Mr. Ch. Joseph in suo horto Buitenzorg, January 1913. 



Habitat Java. 



V\ First flower of an inflorescence pseudo-dimerous, lip 

 petaloid instead of wanting, anther and stigma defective as 

 usual ; 



2°. First flower of an inflorescence; sepals free instead ot 

 forming one whole, and bent towards each other. Petals normal, 

 lip partly petaloid. Stigma reduced to a narrow transverse split. 

 On the right of the anther an excrescence bearing a bud 

 (= inner stamen) '). 



Aerides odoratum Lour. 



Coll. Mrs. H. J. Jeswiet-Hagedoorn, Pasoeroean 1912. 



Habitat Java. 



This plant, for the rest very variable^), shows in the present 

 specimen three abnormities: — ^ 



1". Spurred sepals: this deviation is shown only by the 

 lateral sepals, which are moreover acuminate and bent inwards 

 (fig. 9, 10, 11). 



2**. The column tends to broadening and to division into three 



1 ) Cf. Dodonaea 1894, p. 24. 



2) J. J. Smith, die Orchideen von Java, p. 583. 



