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lapparence hyaline, scarieuse, mais les 2 nervures latérales sont 
toujours évidentes jusqu’au somm 
“Tn ya rien de A, dont les glumes paraissent appartenir & une 
autre espéce comme flavescens, Labill par exem 
. .* I) ne serait pas extraordinaire que Gaudichaud ait cru avoir 
affaire au Stipa flavescens, Labill. puisque’il a écrit cette déter- 
mination notre herbier 
If this, then, is the true Stipa crinita, Gaud., the species 
should nat placed, not in § Aphanoneurae as indicated in the Ke ey 
to the Species but in § Striatae near S. tenuiglumis. 
40. §. MeAlpinei, Reader in Vict. Nat. xv, (1899) 143. S. 
lachnocolea, Hughes in Kew Bull. (1921) 26. 
S. AusTRALIA. Clarendon, Tepper 274. 
Victoria. Little Desert, Lowan, Reader. 
When raising 8. compressa var. lachnocolea, Benth., to specific 
rank I was not aware that Mr. Reader had already described it 
under the name of S. McAlpinei. 
1 
This Decade of New Orchids was left completed by the late 
Mr. R. A. Rolfe, A.L.S., at the time of his death 
They have been collected together for publication and repre- 
sent his last contribution to the study of the Orchidaceae, the 
family on which he was the recognised authority.* 
481. Agrostophylium seychellarum, Rolfe; species A. zeylanico, 
Hook. f. (cujus flores ignoti) maxime affinis. 
Caules erecti, subcompressi, 1-5-3 dm. alti. Folia lineari- 
oblonga, obtusa vel minute bidentata, 7-5-12-5 cm. longa, 
1-1-6 cm. lata; vaginae conduplicatae, imbricatae, striatae, 
nigro-marginatae, 5-7-5 em. longae. Capitula terminalia, ses- 
silia, densiflora, 2-5-3-1 em. lata. Bracteae oblongae, obtusae 
vel apiculatae, striatae, imbricatae, 4-6 mm. longae. Pedicellt 
5 mm. longi. Sepala late ovato-oblonga, apiculata, 3 mm. longa, 
lateralia subconcava. Petala ovato-oblonga, subacuta, 3 mm. 
longa. Labellum ovato-oblongum, subacutum, planum, sub- 
petaloideum, 3 mm. longum. — crassa, 2 mm. longa. 
Capsula ovoideo-oblonga, 6 mm. lon 
SEYCHELLES IsLaNDs: Cascade Tetate, Mahé, Thomasset 
156 bis; Neville; Barkly; Horne. 
An interesting outlying species which has long been known 
from fruiting specimens, and the flowers now enable it to be 
described. It seems most allied to the Ceylon A. zeylanicum, 
Hook, f., of which fruiting examples only are known, but the 
* In Kew Bulletin, 1921, p. 52 the ten New Orchids there described 
‘wero inadvertently entitled ‘‘ Decades XLVIII—XLIX” instead of 
Decas XLVIII. 
