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68. CALANTHE ANTHEOPOPHORA, sp. nov. 



Roots very stout, woolly. Leaves broadly lanceolate acuminate 

 35 cm. long, 9.5 cm. wide, nerves prominent 3, petiole 15 cm. long. 

 Scape stout pubescent 55 cm. long, raceme many-flowered 11 cm. 

 lone. Bracts ovate acuminate lower ones 5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, 

 mucronulate pubescent, upper ones smaller, persisted. Pedicels 5.5 

 cm. pubescent. Sepals elliptic obovate mucronulate pubescent 

 5-nerved 11 mm. long, 6 mm. wide. Petals oblanceolate, 3-nei*ved 

 much narrower. Lip 4-lobed, the lateral lobes linear oblong truncate 

 1 cm. long, 2 mm. wide, slightly enlarged at the tip, the base of the 

 mid lobe linear 3 mm. long, lobes linear oblong truncate widely 

 divaricate, 12 mm. long, 2 mm. wide. Callus of numerous papillae 

 in three rows, spur slender, filiform pubescent, 3 mm. long. Column 

 stout. 



Hills of Koh Samui No. 5701. Flowers white tinged with 

 purple the base of tlie lip with three orange ridges. Flowering 

 in May. 



Allied to 0. veratrifolia, R. Bp. but with a curious -t-lobed lip 

 with very narrow spreading lobes. 



69. CYMBIDIUM CAULESCENS, sp. nov. 



Stem ascending with thick roots, 6-7 cm. long densely covered 

 with distichous lanceolate acute sheathing leaves 2 cm. long striate. 

 Leaves at the apex of the stem thinly coriaceous lanceolate acute 

 recurved, closely striate narrowed slightly at the base, 3.5 cm. 

 long, 0.6 to 1 cm. wide. Raceme from the leaf axil, slender 

 12-14 cm. long base nude. Flower^ 5 to 8 distant. Bracts lanceolate 

 acuminate 1 cm. long. Pedicel slender 1.5 cm. long. Sepals 

 lanceolate acuminate slightly falcate. Petals similar 1.5 cm. long, 

 3 mim. wide. Lip sliorter, 3-lobed side lobes shortly free, rounded 

 at the tip, mid-lobe lanceolate acuminate acute ; keels 2 low thick 

 on the disc ending abruptly on the mid-lobe. Column arcuate, 

 winged half way down, 7 mm. long. Margins of clinandrium little 

 elevate. Pollinia 2 obovoid. 



Koh Samui. 



Near C lancifolium, Hooker, but with no pseudobulb and a long 

 developed stem with nai-row leaves. 



70. THELASIS MACROKULBON. Ridlkv. 



Koh Samui. No. 5727. Distrib. — ^Malay Peninsula. 



71. HOEMARIA DISCOLOR, Lixdlev. 



Koh Samui. Distrib. — Malay Peninsula. 



SCITAMINE.^. 



72. K^MPFERIA PULCHRA, Ridlev. 



Koh Samui, damp places on banks in jungle and on damp i-ocks. 

 No. 5700. 



Corolla lilac mauve with white throat. 



