IN TIMOIi. 519 



DiURis Fit VAN A, i?/JZ. (sp. nov.), 3508; "flowers yellow"; neir 2.— Herba 

 terrestris; tuberibus duobus ovatis; caiile erecto graclli ^-1-pedaIi ; foliis 

 anguste liueuribus aeumiuaUs longis; floribug paucis 1-2 pedicellatia ; 

 pedicello loiigiusculo ; bractea lanceolata longe acmninata ; sepulo postico 

 ovato-obtuso, basi paul'o angustato ; luteralibus linearibng obtusia 

 porrectis paralltdis ; petalis ovatis obtusis basi angustatis ; labello elongato 

 3-lobo, lobis lateralibus obtusis crcnulatis venosis crectis, medio loli^^-o 



obscure 3-lobo costis tribus, duabus lateralibus ad. basin, una raetfL 

 ad apiccni; marginibus labelli deflexis ; coluunia brevi, alls jr.ajusculis, 

 basidilatata, noudeatieulata. This rcconi exteutls tbe range of the "-enus 

 Diuris, hitlieito only known from Australia, to the Malayan region. ^ 

 [I have taken tiie libeity of nsking Mr. Ridley to name this^interestino^ 

 species iii honour of the Et. Hon. Lord Justice Fry, who during my travels 

 in tlie East, expressed great inten^st in my observations, and wlio has 

 given much attention to the Orchidea) and to the question cf tl^eir 

 fertilisation. H. O. F.] 



HABENAErA (Peristylusj timorexsis, Bt'dl (sp. nov.).— Terrosir:s, tubero 

 oblongo, foliis basalibus duobus ovatis oblongis ; vaginis 4-lanceolatis longe 

 acuminatis ; sc.ipo subgracili vix pcdale ; racemo laxiusculo ; florihus circiUr 

 llpajvis; bracteis lanceolatis acuminatis; sepalo postico cucuUato ovato 

 acurninato, lateralibus lauccolatis aeutis ; pctalibus subsimilibus angue- 

 tioribus: labello obcuneato, breviter 3-Iobo, basiipetalis sepalisque ar!nati>', 

 callo caiuoso seinicirculari. lobis lateralibus latis, medio brevi obtuso, 

 calcare scrotiformi, apicidato columna brevissima; anthera lata, locidis 

 parallelis, pollituis gro.^se granulosis, eaudiculisbrevibus ; stigoiate breviter 

 bilobo. Its affinity is with H. sjpiralis, Wight. 3520, 6 Flowers yellow- 

 ish-green. 



Ilabeuaria Susanna?, Benth. 3137, 1 ; very sweet nectar at tip of the nectary; 



nectaries 5J-in. in avornge length. Fertilised bv a species of 

 Ophiodes and liemigia virhia moths, 

 grandis, Benth. 3i42, 1. Nectaries with swoit nectar; the 

 anthers burst of themselves and pollen falls out as minute 

 . particles. 

 _ sp. aff. angustata, BL 



Hermininm angustifolium, Beuth. In rocky spols, by side of a stream 

 3561, 6; 3521, 6; 3515, 6; 3823. 10 b. 



Scitamliiem, 



Globba strobilifora, ZolL Mor. (R. Brown, Coupang.) 

 Hedychium coronariuni, Koen, 3712 a, and. 4113, 7 

 Curcuma (prob. sp. nov.). 314G, 1, 

 Costus speciosus, i, 373!, 8. 



Canna indica, i. 3750 and 4009, 8. (R- Brown. Coupan'r.) 

 Musa paradisiaca, L. ^ ^^ 



Ilypoxidess, 



Hyporis aurea, Lour. (H. Franquevillei, Miq^.). 



hygrometrica, var. pratensis, 72. Br. 35G4, 6. Hitherto only known 

 trom Australia. 



^m'mj'lUde3&. 



Crinum asiaticum, lioxh. 

 Dioscoreacecc. 



Dio^corei glt.bosa, Bozh. 3849, 10 a. 



pentaphylla. Lam. 6, 3GbU, 7 ; 3900, 10 a. '5 4080, G. (R. Brown, 

 Coupang.) 



Trichodesma zeylanica, R. Br. var. 

 Taccaceee. 



Tacca palmaU, Bl 3765, 9, 



pinnatifi.la, Forst 4017, 9 ; 3735, 8 ; nom iud, *' Telo* 



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