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and with their roots parallel the longitudinal axis of the bran- 
ches; these roots are very slender and elongated, sometimes as 
much as 8 cM. long and more. In the figures 8, 9 and 13, on 
plate XIII, three different plants are reproduced. Fig. 9 was drawn 
after the specimen from my garden in Bandung, the two other 
illustrations are from plants collected on the original finding- 
spot. The young plants are clearly connected with the mother- 
plant by means of a root; accordingly this species, like Zaenzo- 
phyllum proliferum, forms dense accumulations of plants, but in 
consequence of the roots of Tueniophyllum Reinvaanit being 
longer, everything remains more distinct than in the other kind. 
But there are produced sympodia such as are seldom found in 
higher plants, and certainly rarely in orchids. Even a root severed 
from the plant was able to form a bud, as is shown in figure 14. 
Among the materia] collected there were two seedlings (see 
fig. 16) which are of course unknown, like the plant itself. 
From the semen has issued a very small and thin hypocotyl 
(iy); at this are again to be distinguished the cotyledon and a 
thin filiform root. At the extremity of the root of the upper- 
seedling a bud (én) has actually developed. So the plants mul- 
tiply rather by vegative processes than by means of seeds. 
Unlike what happens in the case of Taeniophyllum proliferum, 
_ Where the hypocotyl is produced without any transition from 
_ the growing-apex of the root, in this Taeniophyllum-species there 
is a previous formation of an adventitious bud; the growing- 
point of the root is converted into a germinating-point of the 
bud. In Figure 10 may be seen a very early stage of gemma- 
tion. The rootcap is as yet quite intact, but at B one sees an 
initial stage of the formation of bud-scales. Fig. 11 illustrates 
a subsequent stage: the root-cap (w. m.) is torn and the very 
. _ young bud protrudes from it. In the next illustration, fig. 15, the 
_ bud with its two gemmaceous bracts is complete. From this 
gemma: there first grows a root as also takes place in other 
‘Specie | of Taeniophyllum (and is to be seen in Shei 1) and not 
then the flower-stalk, 
few times I found a r “el a ne a viati from the ear 
ent. The apes of the ix inererers Ree amma ae : 
