ORCHIDACE.E 



acters of Corybas. In his Prodromus Floras Novag Hollandige 

 Robert Brown gave his reasons for excluding this genus, reasons 

 which it is difficult to consider seriously to-day. 



The genus includes about thirty-eight species, sixteen of which 

 are natives of New Guinea. Nine or ten species have been re- 

 ported from New Zealand, and about four from Australia. Cory- 

 bas MerriUii marks the northern limit of distribution for the 

 genus. 



1. Corybas Merrillii Ames Orchidace^e 2 : 42. 

 Luzon. 



8. CRYPTOSTYLIS R. Br. 



There are about fourteen species of Cryptostylis reported to be 

 natives of New Guinea, Australia, Samoa, New Caledonia, Java, 

 Borneo, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula, and the Fiji Islands. 

 1. Cryptostylis arachnites (JSl.) Hasskarl Cat. Bogor. 48. 

 Luzon, Polillo, Negros, Leyte, Mindanao. 



Also reported from Borneo, Java, Malay Peninsula, Ceylon, and south- 

 ern India. 



9. GALEOLA Lour. 



About fourteen species have been described. C. A. Wenzel, who 

 has collected Galeola pterosperma in Leyte, reports that a super- 

 stition prevails among the natives that if this plant grow near 

 a human habitation, the occupants will die. 



1. Galeola pterosperma (Lindl.) Schltr. in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. 

 45: 386. G. Hydra Eeichb.f. Xen. Orch. 2 : 77. 

 Babuyanes, Leyte, Luzon, Mindoro. 



Also reported from Java, Formosa, Sumatra, Malacca, Tenasserim, Sik- 

 kim. 



10. VANILLA Siv. 



More than fifty species of Vanilla have been described. These are 



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