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_ Circumstances the inflorescences spring from .the nodes of a 
leafy stem. Consequently we have to do here not with a ter- 
minal inflorescence but with a transition of branch to inflo- 
rescence or in other words an inflorescence of which the lower- 
most portion shows the character of a leafy stem, evidenced 
also by the appearing root. 
-Gastrochilus sororius Schltr. 
Legit W. F. Wincxeu in suo horto Tjidadap near Tyibeber. 
Habibat Java. 
Two cases of synanthy. 
In both the ovaries are quite grown together laterally ; in one 
case the parts of the flower and columns are free, in the other 
one the opposing sepals coalesce to a keelshaped whole showing 
the opening in front. 
Eria annulata Bi. 
Legit R. C. BAkHUIZEN VAN DEN Brink in suo horto, Decem- 
bor 1917. 
Habitat Java. 
Young plant showing biostrepsis at the base of the stem, 
three blades on three united sheaths. The same phenomenon 
has been described by us 1909 as occurring in Dendrobium 
-Mmutabile Liadl., viz. also on a sprout from an older stem '). 
Pseuderia foliosa Schlitz. 
Legit J. J. Sara in horto bog., October 1915. 
Habitat Ambon. 
Inflorescence terminal (normal lateral), Also mentioned 1915 3). 
Laelio-cattleya. 
Legit D. van Mutiem, Weltevreden, December 191%. ue 
Two flowers. Middle sepal coalescing with petals. In one oF 
these flowers the column also has firmly joined this whole. 
ili is sennaaty 
4) 26 Série, Vol. VIII, p. 4 © 2) id Vol. XIV, p. 88. 
