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scale but one. The inflorescences are created on the very young 
pseudo-bulbs viz. terminal, they flower long before the bulbs 
and leaves have come to their normal length. On the old bulbs 
no trace of the withered inflorescence is to be found, only then 
when fruits have developed. 
In other species of Coelogyne the growth seme in a similar 
way, though differences may occur. It happens e.g. that the 
rhizome is very short and consequently the bulbs are vx ceutnl 
for room, sometimes there is only one leaf, in other cases the 
flowering shoots produce neither bulb nor leaf. The leafsheaths 
in Coelogyne are either absent or indistinct, if not grown 
together with the surface of the bulb. In some other genera 
this seems to be the case without a doubt. Also in the specimen 
of ©. pandurata which I sent you the sheath of the lowest 
leaf seems to form a whole with the bulb judging from the 
ridges running down along the same. In the majority of Or- 
chidaceae the leafsheath is cylindrical and it frequently occurs 
that they are incised in front. In our Voelogyne the lowest 
sheath seems, indeed, to be incised.” 
Although my own impression inclined towards four blades: 
springing from two sheaths, Mr. Smith who saw the fresh 
material and had the figure drawn, emphatically pronounces 
as his opinion the insertion of four leaves, inserted alternatively. 
GRAMINEAE. 
Lea Mays \. 
Cultiv. in Java. 
Coll. C. Suermondt, Malang. 
The spadix is richly branched from the base to the top and 
so to say split up into its elements. The case tallies exactly 
with those described by Penzig '), most of the spikelets bearing 
two double rows of florets and, when more, dividing still further. 
The significance of this monstrosity has been clearly pointed 
out by Prof. Penzig in his ,Anomalie osservate nella Zea Mays” 
and as our specimen, though a magnificent instance of a branched 
41) Pflanzenteratologie II p. 461. 
