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Coll. May 1898. 
Pseudo-dimery on account of the lateral sepals having coalesced 
and the labellum being wanting. Column normal, but the pes 
gynostemii pulpy, convex instead of flat, obliquely truncated 
at top where the coalescing sepals are inserted. (Fig. 39). 
Renanthera Lowei Rehb. f. 
Habitat Borneo. 
Coll. Oct. 1894 and March 1897. 
\°. The raceme, normally up to 3 M. long, bears a great 
number of flowers, of which the 2—3 lowest deviate from the 
rest in colour and also slightly in shape. The lowest are dark — 
yellow with Jittle brown specks, whereas the higher are pale | 
yellow with darge brown spots. By way of deviation the flower 
in question is an intermediate between the two forms, in as 
much as the upper sepal is like that of the lowest flowers and 
the lateral sepals on account of their smaller width recall to 
mind the /ighest flowers, though their colour is dark yellow 
varying with /ight yellow and redbrown spotted, not specked. 
Of one of the two petals (the other was dried up) the upper 
half was dark yellow with specks, but the inferior half light 
yellow with spots. 
Consequently the colours are those of the remote flowers, or : 
if the flower is considered before the torsion, those of the 
adjoining flowers. 
2°. The flowerstalk splits up at 1.52 M. from the base into ~ 
two, in consequence of a furrow which appears before. The 
branches of the bifurcation have a length of resp. 0.41 M. and 
0.47 M. 
COLCHICACEAE. 
Gloriosa superba L. 
Habitat the East Indies and trop. Africa. 
Coll. Sept. 1895. 
1°. Segments of the perianth and stamens 5, probably coales- 
cence of a sepal and a petal with suppression of one of the 
stamens, 
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