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being simply truncated. Nor could an anther be ascertained. 
Cymbidium ensifolium Sw. 
Habitat Southern Asia. 
Coll. 1900. 
Pelory. The gynostemium shows three lobes, which surround 
the concave stigma. The topmost lobe is of course a staminode, 
the two others, which are indented, represent the sides of the 
clinandrium. (Fig. 37). 
Phalaenopsis amabilis Bl. 
Habitat Java and other islands of the East-Indian Archipelago. 
Coll. April 1895 J. Hunsnorr Pot. 
The stout flowerstalk normally cilindrical at the lower end, 
splits up into two at the top. This bifurcation is preceded 
by a flattening 6 cM. lower and a furrow on either side higher 
up. At the beginning of the furrows two bracts are found at 
a distance of 5 mM. between one another. At distances of res- 
pectively 23 and 27 mM. higher than these bracts there spring 
from the edges of the stalk two normal flowers, the higher of 
the two remaining 3 cM. under the bifurcation; the two branches 
of this bifurcation, 4 and 54 cM. long, are at almost a straight 
angle and show -— as usual — a zigzagline. Moreover on the point 
of bifurcation two bracts are to be seen, placed back to back. 
From the axil of the one bract springs a normal flower, from 
the other a synanthy consisting of two flowers which along the 
whole length of the petioles and part of the ovaries have grown 
together, though deep furrows indicate their limits. For the 
rest the flowers are normal'). (Fig. 38). 
Phalaenopsis Esmeralda Rehb. f. var. Regnieriana. 
Habitat the Philippine Islands. 
Coll. October 1897. 
The two lateral petals coalescing with the gynostemium. 
Vanda tricolor Lndl. 
Habitat Java occid. 
Coll. 27 September 1894, Aug. 1898. 
1) Penzie I p. 325 records bifurcation of the inflorescence in Listera cordata. 
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