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almost certain that it was he who took the Bulhophijllum to Britain ; 

 .and as the other orchids are all species found locally in Singapore, 

 the probability is that the Singapore forests and not the Singapore 

 port, furnished it. The new locality at which it has been obtained 

 is Kotah Tinggi in Johore, and the finder Mr. H. Leu Jeppesen, of 

 the Mount Austin Estate. 



Lindley's description, slightly modified, appears in Sir Joseph 

 Hooker's Flora of British India, V. 1890, p. 763. and in Mr. H. X. 

 Eidley's Materials for a Flora of the Malai/ Peninsula, Monocoty- 

 ledons, I. 1908, p. G9. It is now possible to add to it. 



The pseudobulbs were described from dried material by Sir 

 Joseph Hooker as depressed subglobose : they are when fresh obtur- 

 binate. The leaf whicli has not been described is almost narrowly 

 -elliptic, being by but a little more rapidly narrowed below than 

 above; it is 9 cm. long by 2 cm. wide, solitary, on a petiole 1 cm. 

 long. The inflorescence may exceed the four inches of Lindley's 

 description, and l>e 15 cm. long : upon, it Mr. Jeppersen has seen 

 as many as 12 flowers. The flowers give the impression of being 

 •of a dark claret colour ; in detail they are thus. The centre within 

 about the base of the column and of the petals is chrome yellow ; this 

 becomes paler outwards and tinged with lake on the sepals and 

 petals under their purplish-chocolate margin. The dor.^al sepal has 

 three relatively wide ])urplish cliocolate bands down it, which become 

 somewhat interrupted towards its base; and the lateral sepals have 

 five. Their margins are finely pubescent. The petals have one 

 band running into the margin : they are half as long as the sepals. 

 The lip is liver-coloured, paler below upon a triangular margined 

 area with its base tlie hinge ; this area has microscopic purjjle :-pots : 

 there is a margined narrow groove on the upper surface extending 

 nearly to tlie tip, with a chocolate border at the base. Seen from 

 l)elow the lip is elliptic-ovate ; from the side it looks exactly like an 

 ox-tongue in the same position ; from above the groove makes it sub- 

 cordate : it all but equals the se])als, and is distinctly mobile. The 

 horns of the colimm project upon either side of tlie anther in the 

 same plane as the column. 



EULOPIIIA MACROSTACHYA, Lindl. 



Eulophia macrostadiya, Lindl.. is an addition to the Flora of 

 the Malay Peninsula. Though a\i orchid of miusually wide distri- 

 bution, it had remained unknown as occurring in the Peninsula 

 until last year. It was found on a limestone hill near Sungei 

 Siput, in Perak, and was brought into the Botanic Gardens in 

 Singapore where it flowered in October. 



In 1919 it was received in the Gardens from the Tambilan 

 islands which are between Singapore and Borneo : and it is known to 

 occur in Ceylon, up to 4,000 feet, in Travancore and in the Nilgiri 

 hills, in Sumatra, Java, Ternate, Mindanao and Leyte. In 1889 a 

 plant of it of unkno"v\Ti origin flowered in the Singapore Gardens. 



