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PliajUS Humblotii, Fuhh. f. — A remarkable and beautiful 

 new species, which bears its large showy blossoms in few- 

 flowered racemes. The sepals are oblong acute, the petals 

 twice as broad, and the large spurless lip three-lobed, the 

 lateral lobes roundish and brought forward, the middle lobe 

 transversely emarginate, and the disk bearing a fleshy saddle- 

 shaped bilamellate callus running out in front into a little 

 keel. The flowers are rose-coloured with blotches of white 

 and red. — Madagascar. 



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