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id. id. 
Culta in horto bog. 
Legit J. J. Smita 1920. 
Column without rostellum. This occurs very often in Javanese 
specimens. Consequently the pollinia fall immediately on the 
stigma without the aid of insects. 
Calanthe veratrifolia R. Br. 
Legit Dr. W. Docrers van Leguwen in suo horto, April 1921. 
Strongly flattened peduncle which produces four long branches 
before giving off a long series of bracts and flowers. 
Calanthe varians J. J. 8. 
Legit J. J. Smita in suo horto, Dec. 1919. 
Tubular leaf at the very top of a tuber. 
Eria Schildiana Schltr. Fig. 18. 
Habitat Goenoeng Merapi, Sumatra. 
Legit J. J. Smira in herb. bog., Oct. 1919. 
Flower normal, but at the base of the column are, instead 
of one, two lips, superposed. One is normal and in its proper 
place, but the additional is smaller and misses the lateral lobes 
at its base. Fig. 18. 
Dendrobium chrysotocum Lud. 
Culta in horto bog. | | 
Legit W. M. Docrers van Leeuwen, March 1920. Fig. 19. 
Pseudobulb with three leaves at the top. Directly under the 
top springs a lateral sprout (= pseudobulb). The latter produces 
at the base a tight fitting sheath and at the top 1° a rather 
inflated sheath which therefore makes the impression of an 
internode, 2° a sheath which is tubular though resembling an 
internode, 3° three linear-lanceolate leaves. These leaves spring 
like the foregoing sheaths near or from the top of the pseudo- 
tuber &' in such a way that both their bases and those of the 
sheath are entirely surrounded by the first loose sheath. After 
having produced the linear-lanceolate leaves the axis grows out 
