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Coll. May 1898. 



Pseudo-dimery on account of the lateral sepals having coalesced 

 and the labellum being wanting. Column normal, but the pes 

 gynostemii pulpy, convex instead of flat, obliquely truncated 

 at top where the coalescing sepals are inserted. (Fig. 39). 



Henanthera Louiei Rchb. f. 



Habitat Borneo. 



Coll. Oct. 1894 and March 1897. 



1°. The raceme, normally up to 3 M. long, bears a great 

 number of flowers, of which the 2 — 3 lowest deviate from the 

 rest in colour and also slightly in shape. The lowest are dark 

 yellow with Uttle brown specks, whereas the higher are pale 

 yellow with Janje brown spots. By way of deviation the flower 

 in question is an intermediate between the two forms, in as 

 much as the ujjper sepal is like that of the loioest flowers and 

 the lateral sepals on account of their smaller width recall to 

 mind the hicjhest flowers, though their colour is dark yellow 

 varying with Ii(/ht yellow and redbrown spotted, not specked. 

 Of one of the two petals (the other was dried up) the upper 

 half was dark yellow with specks, but the inferior half light 

 yellow with spots. 



Consequently the colours are those of the remote flowers, or 

 if the flower is considered before the torsion, those of the 

 adjoining flowers. 



2°. The flowerstalk splits up at 1.52 M. from the base into 

 two, in consequence of a furrow which appears before. The 

 branches of the bifurcation have a length of resp. 0.41 M. and 

 0.47 M. 



COLCHICACEAE. 



Gloriosa superha L. 



Habitat the East Indies and trop. Africa. 



Coll. Sept. 1895. 



1°. Segments of the perianth and stamens 5, probably coales- 

 cence of a sepal and a petal with suppression of one of the 

 stamens. 



