ported previously from Fiyi. This specimen, which is in 
fruit, has much the aspect of C.asperata Lindl. 
PSEUDERIA Schlechter 
‘Two species of this genus are known to occur in the 
Fiji Islands and there is also a third species of which the 
specimens are inadequate for critical diagnosis. 
It seems rather peculiar that the flowering plants of 
this affinity were unknown to H1.G. Reichenbach from 
Fiji at the time when he contributed the orchids to See- 
mann’s Flora Vitiensis. Species of this genus have been 
rather common in recent collections from the Fiji group. 
An interesting note on Pseuderia by Schlechter is to be 
found in Engler Bot. Jahrb. 56 (1921) 473. 
Pseuderia platyphylla L.O. Williams sp. nov. 
Herba epiphytica (vel semi-epiphytica), usque ad 17 
dm. alta. Folia lanceolata vel ovato-lanceolata, acuta vel 
acuminata. Inflorescentiae breves, laterales, pauciflorae ; 
bracteae ovatae. Sepalum dorsale lineari-lanceolatum, 
acutum, carnosum, trinervium. Sepala lateralia similia. 
Petala linearia, acuta, trinervia. Labellum oblongo-ova- 
tum, obtusum, simplex, carinis ornatum. Columna gen- 
eris. 
A robust epiphytic (or semi-epiphytic) herb up to 
about 17 dm. tall. Stems coarse, up to about 1.5 em. 
thick; internodes 2-4 em. apart. Leaves lanceolate to 
ovate-lanceolate, acute to abruptly acuminate, compara- 
tively thin when dry yet coriaccous, 10-20 ecm. long, 
1.5-6 em. broad. Inflorescences short, lateral and about 
opposite the base of a leaf, mostly less than 10-flowered, 
up to 5-6 cm. long (but mostly shorter); bracts ovate, 
mostly 4-6 mm. long. Flowers relatively large for the 
genus, about 1.5—2 cm. long. Dorsal sepal linear-lanceo- 
late, acute, fleshy, 3-nerved, about 20 mm. long and 38 
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