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ORCHID STUDIES, IV 
BY 
Louis O. WILLIAMS 
THE ORCHIDS OF THE Fist ISLANDS 
THE FOLLOWING ANNOTATED CATALOGUE of the Fijian 
orchids was prepared when a large collection made by 
John W. Gillespie and by H. EF. Parks was received for 
study and determination at the Botanical Museum of 
Harvard University. This collection contains about two 
hundred specimens many of which will be found in the 
herbarium of Oakes Ames; duplicates of most of the 
Gillespie numbers, as well as some numbers of the Parks 
collections, will be found in the Bernice P. Bishop Mu- 
seum in Honolulu; duplicates of most of the Parks col- 
lections and some of those of the Gillespie collection will 
be found in the herbarium of the University of California. 
In addition to the above collections, I have had ac- 
cess to three others from Fiji. The first collection (of 
about thirty numbers) is that of A.C. Smith, of which the 
study set is in the Ames Herbarium. The second is the 
Seemann collection, of which duplicates of many species 
are in the Gray Herbarium. This collection is of par- 
ticular importance because it formed the basis for H.G. 
Reichenbach’s treatment of the orchids in Seemann’s 
Flora Vitiensis. The third collection is that of the United 
States South Pacific Exploring Expedition, of which a 
good representation is to be found in the Gray Herbar- 
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