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APETAL^. 



LAURINE^. 

 6:3. LITSEA AMARA, Blume. 

 West side of Koh Samui. Nos. 5722, 5742. Common in Malaya. 



EUPHOKBIACE^. 

 64. ANTIDESMA GHOESEMBILLA, Gaertx. 



Koli Penn:in. No. 5759. Distrib. — Indo-Malaya. 



OECHIDE^. 

 6.5. MICROSTYLIS SPECTABILIS. sp. nov. 



Whole plant, 50 cm. tall, with thick woolly roots, base of stem 

 10 cm. long cov^ered with pale papery sheaths, cylindric. Leaves 

 about 6 elliptic ovate acute 9-12 cm. long, 3-4 cm. wide, 3-5 nerved, 

 petiole and sheath 5 cm. long. Raceme dense long, very many 

 flowered. Bracts lanceolate acuminate deflexed 4 mm. long. Pedicels 

 4 mm. long. Dorsal sepal linear oblong obtude 4 mm. long laterals 

 semi-ovate obtuse 3-nerved twice as broad as the dorsal sepal. 



Petals linear oblong obtuse little shorter than the dorsal sepal. 

 Lip shorter than the lateral sepals, limb oblong ending in four 

 linear acuminate teeth. Fovea large ovate Avith everted edges 

 auricles lanceolate acuminate as long as the petals, all deep crimson. 

 Column j-ellow large with rounded stelidia, a broad rostellum, 

 anther rather flat, shortly broadly ovate obtuse 2-celled, notched at 

 the back. Pollinia narrowly pyiiform. 



Koh Pennan. 



A very distinct plant of the M. congesta type with remai-kably 

 long auricles to the lip and a deep fovea with strongly evert mai-gins. 



m. DENDROBIUM KUNSTLERI, Hookek. fil. 

 Koh Samui. Distrib. — Malay Peninsula. 



(i7. BULBOPHYLLUM (CIRRHOPETALUM) DENTIPERUM, sp. nov. 



Rliizome slender elongate covered with sheaths 7 mm. long, 

 eventually breaking up into fibres. Pseudobulbs 7-12 cm. apart, 

 cylindric, 4 cm. long. Leaf thinly coriaceous lanceolate, tip obtuse 

 nari'owed to the base 15 cm. long, 3-5 cm. wide. Scapes 8 cm. tall 

 from the base of the pseudobulb with a few sheaths at the base. 

 Flowers about 12, " spotted purplish magenta and white," 

 pedicels slender 12 mm. Doi\sal sepal ovate, edge denticulate 

 with a few long hairs at the tip, 5 nerved 5 mm. long, laterals 

 connate lanceolate glabrous tips very shoi-tly free acute 13 mm. long, 

 3 mm. wide. Petals oblong 4 mm. long, blunt slightly falcate denti- 

 culate with a few hairs on the tip. Lip very narrow linear cylindric 

 fleshy with a In-oader base. Column rather long with a long- curved 

 foot. Stelidia oblong ending in a long seta. 



West side of Koh Samui. No. 5719. 



Allied to B. rupicoltim, Ridlejs and B. cnrtisii, Rolfe, but witli a 

 larger flower and narrower lip. 



