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Asplenium macrophyllum, Swaitz. Tanjong Tembeling at Kuantan, 

 No. 223. 

 Distr: All through the Peninsula, on the western side; from 

 the eastern side only obtained as vet in Paliang. 



Lycopodium Phlegmaria, Linn. Tanjong Teml^eling at Kuantan, 

 No. 224. 

 Distr: Throughout the Peninsula. 



I. H. BURKILL. 



ORCHID NOTES. 



So little is known of the botany of eastern Johoie that it is of 

 interest to record the receipt from Mr. St. V. B. Down, uf the follow- 

 ing three orchids ccJlected by him on the Sedili river near Dohol : — 



Eria vestita, Lindl. 



Eria velutina, Lindl., 30 feet above the river on a Lager- 

 stroemia indica, associated with Drynaria. 



Dendrobium Serra, Lindl. 



Dendrobium crumenatum, Sw. -the Pigeon-orchid. 



From Mr. F. J. Hallifax, President of the Municipal Commission, 

 Singapore, the Gardens have received si)ecimens of a salmon flowered 

 Dendrobium crumenatum, Sw. The plain grows on Goodwood Hill, 

 Singapore, uncultivated, in Mr. Hallifax's garden. Its stems are of a 

 bright chestnut colour. 



Thecosteic secunda, Ridl, 



Thecostele secunda, Ridl., flowtred in the Botanic Garden, in 

 October, 1914, producing four downwardly directed (rigid, not pendi-- 

 lous) racemes with respectively 6, 7,11 and 17 horizontal flowers. 

 It flowered again in April, 1915. The plant was brought from 

 Sarawak, by Mr. J. W. Anderson, in 1912. Its leaves measure 9 by 

 1 5^ inches. 



A description of the colour of the flower is desirable. The 

 interior sepal is honey-coloured with a slight claret flush outside near 

 the tip and a light claret median line within in the lower half; the 

 lateral sepals are similarly coloured but the line within is obscure. 

 The lateral petals are honey-coloureri becoming paler towards the 

 tip, the margin below this pale part and the median line within being 

 claret. The lip has on the median lobe a whitish ground with 

 a well defined claret V in the centre and ill defined lateral Vs on 

 each side of it merged into it at tiie contiguous extremities. These 

 are formed by claret coloured hair; a small yellowish honey-coloured 

 spot lies above the central V with a claret dot on each side of it, 



