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energetice retiiiervia. Labellum trilobum ; lobi laterales rotimdati 

 extrorsnm flexi iu lobum anticnm ellipticum acutum medio gibbum 

 disco quinqne-carinatum excurrentes, cariiiis externis paulo ob- 

 literatis. Calcar breve prope rectangulnm retrorsum more L. 

 calupteri quo a L. aurantiaco, Oliveriano, Grantii, bene recedit. 



Hab. — Ill Nyika Comitry, Afr. Trop. Orient., coll. Herd. T. 

 Wakefield. 



L. specioso, Ldl., affinis, qui recedit labellilobis lateralibus retusis 

 abruptis non cum lobo medio conflueutibus. H. (J. Reichenhach Jil. 



Angracum eburneum (A. virens, Ldl.), Pet. Tli. in Nyika Country 

 detexit Bevd. T. Wakefield. Det. hsec benigne fecit amiciss. H. G. 

 Reichenbach fil. 



Dendrobium (§ Dendrocoryne) chloropterum, Rchb.f. d S.Moore 

 [Tab. 196] . — i>. flore carnoso brevi mento valde evoluto angulato, 

 sepalo imparl semilanceo sepalis paribus triangulis latis, tepalis 

 semilanceis angustioribus microscoiDice serrulatis, labeUo trifido 

 laciniis lateralibus parvis curvatis semifalcatis lacinia antica obcor- 

 data maxima callo in disco labelli papillari elevato ligulato medio 

 utrinque unidentato antice in lamellas duas perpendiculares diviso, 

 columnse parte libera prona parva crassa. 



Hab. — Patria ignota. Vidimus in hort. Kew. culta. 



Caulis quasi pseudobulbosus, foliis subaequilongis basi angus- 

 tatus, aj)ice 2-folius. Folia coriacea, ovato-oblonga, obscure biden- 

 tata, ad 12 cm. long, et 4 cm. lat. Pedunculus e dorso folii 

 exaxillaris, teres, erectus, caulem fere duplo superans, sparsim 

 vaginiferus, superne pauciflorus. Bracteffi jDarvae, triangulares, 

 pedicellis elongatis multo minores. Flos prasinus 2-4 cm. diam. : 

 labelli callus et columns pes albi. Pollinia aurantiaca optime 

 evoluta. 



Flos telae carnosae illi D. adunci, Wall., sat similis ; labelli 

 fabrica D. tridentiferi, Ldl. contra multo similior. 



Dr. Reichenbach conjectures that this may be one of the 

 Orchids of the ' Challenger ' Expedition. It certainly is not in the 

 dried collection — consisting, unfortunately, for the most part of 

 miserable mildewed scraps. 



By the kindness of Rev. T. A. Preston, of Marlborough College, 

 I lately had an opportunity of looking through two collections 

 made at Ningpo, in China, by Mr. C. W. Everard. Below is a list 

 of the more notew^orthy species, some of which are of special 

 interest from being the same as Fortune's hitherto unlocalised 

 types. A few new species gathered by Mr. Everard are scattered 

 through the text of the present paper. 



Delphinium a^ithriscifoUwn, Hance. 



Aconitum cJmiense, Herb. Kew (an Siob. ?). The form gathered 

 by Fortune, Forbes and Shearer, referred to by Mr. Hemsley in 

 Journ. Bot. 1876, p. 206. 



Orychuphrafjmus sunchifoUus, Bge. 



Akebia quinata, Dne. 



Ilex coniuta, Ldl. 



