66 
Received from Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, and flowered 
at Kew in June, 1907, It belongs to a small group having an 
arrested inflorescence, glabrous leaf-sheaths, and a lip with crested 
veins, of which only five species were previously known. The 
flowers are whitish yellow, with a deeper yellow band on the lip, 
becoming deep orange in front. It was obtained by Dr. Hodgkin- 
son, The Grange, Wilmslow, with a few other orchids, from the 
locality above named. 
XII.—THE SECTION MICROCOS OF GREWIA IN 
AFRICA. 
T. A. Spragur. 
species, A revision of the African s ecies belonging to t ‘tion 
Omphacarpus has already appeared (KB. 1909, 18). oe 
a was founded on “Microcos foliis alternis oblongis ” 
-hes Zeyl. p. 159, t. 74 (1737), and was at first treated by 
Innaeus as a distinct genus, but was afterwards reduced by him to 
nate _ the section, and possessed a 
follon, a en the eet he distinguished three seotions as 
os i a - eco usually axillary, fruit fleshy 
terminal, flowers ni - obed ; a mphacarpus, inflorescence 
rag lobed] ; or yotncrate, fruit with a cor <y or fibrous rind 
aO ‘ tcrocos, inflorescence terminal, flowers involucrate, 
thus the only ha. 
carpus from es acer given by Masters to distinguish Ompha- 
But he himself had ¢ thes Noe corky or fibrous, not flesh y, mesocarp. 
<a Peeriouely correctly deseribed G, Horibunda as 
° 60, ace rding to th Se et 
Pflanzenfamilien ( 1890). Genera Plantarum (1862) ; 90 or less, according to 
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