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Caules di usi, e basi ramosi; folia ovata, acuta, basi obtusa 
4-6 mm. longa, ex Miiller), serrata, nervis pubescentibus ; inflores- 
centia brevis, subterminalis, androgyna, inferne floribus 2-3 sub- 
sessilibus constituta, superne ¢ ; bractea Q 5-dentata. 
uba: near the sea, Ramon de la Sagra (Herb. Paris). 
We have not seen an example of this species, but from the 
description, an adaptation of which is given above, it is evidently 
quite distinct and most nearly allied to A. nana. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE. 
Fig. 1, shoot of Acalypha pendula, 
la, female bract of same. 
1b, pistil. 
Fig. 2, plant of A. glechomaefolia, 
2a, female bract of same. 
Fig. 3, plant of A. nana, 
3a, female bract of same. 
3b, pistil. 
Fig. 4, portion of plant of A. chamaedrifolia. 
a, emale bract of same. 
, pistil. 
Analyses enlarged. 
II.—NEW ORCHIDS: DECADE 39. 
381. Liparis nana, Rolfe; inter species Asiaticas habitu nana, 
Horibus atropurpureis, columna lata et fere recta distinctis. 
Herba terrestris, nana, circiter 3°5 cm. alta. Folia 3-4, rosulata, 
patentia, ovato-oblonga, subobtusa, undulata, 2-2:5 cm. longa. 
Scapus circiter 3°5 cm. altus, angulatus; racemus brevis, sub- 
corymbosus. Bracteae ovato-lanceolatae, acutae, basi subconcavae, 
3-5 mm. longae. Pedicelli 7-9 mm. longi. Flores purpurei. Sepala 
subpatentia, ovato-oblonga, subacuta, leviter carinata, 6 mm. longa. 
Petala recurva, linearia, acuta, 5 mm. longa. Labellum sessile, 
late cordato-oblongum, apiculatum, conduplicatum, margine denti- 
culatum, 4 mm. longum, per'discum late canaliculatum, basi septo 
transverso nitido instructum. Columna oblonga, lata, medio 
canaliculata, 4 mm. longa, apice breviter bidentata. 
M. 
Sent to Kew for determination by Mr. Gurney Wilson, Glen- 
thorne, Haywards Heath, who remarks that it was found growing 
on an imported plant of Cymbidium insigne, Rolfe. It is a very 
small plant, with dark purple flowers, and somewhat anomalous in 
its very broad nearly straight column. Its precise affinity remains 
at present uncertain. 
382. Girrhopetalum miniatum, Holfe; a C. gracillimo, Rolfe, 
scapis brevioribus, floribus majoribus, miniatis, sepalo postico et 
petalis flavo-pilosis valde differt. hue eal : 
