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38 NOTE ON THE GENUS AMPHIDONAX. 
A SECOND HONGKONG CLZEISOSTONA. 
x H. F. Hance, Pa.D., ere. 
STOMA VIRGINALR, sp. nov.—Foliis oblongis carnosis introveniis 
supra saturate viridibus medio leviter — tis subtus pallidiori- 
bus vix carinatis oblongis apice late triangulari-emarginatis sinu 
brevissime mucronulatis 2-25 poll. longis 9-10 lin. latis, spicis late- 
ralibus nutantibus 4 poll. longis 20-30 floris, rachi sulcata atro- 
purpurea supra medium tantum ‘florifera, bracteis 3-4 ovato-lanceolatis 
erectis, floribus 5 lin. diametro glaberrimis sessilibus bracteolis lan 
latis demam reflexis stipatis, perigonii phyllis exterioribus parum 
joribus ulo-albis summo cucullato lateralibus oblique oblongis 
acutiusculis interioribus f idio brevio ovatis 
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obtusis purpurascenti-punctatis, labelli trilobi lobis paste latis 
truncatis subfalcati tis purpureo-punctulatis terminali we: cone 
citis, 
calcare 14 lineal serotiformi antice 4-enleatulo collo yee ore 
but two remaining on my original specimen), as an saaeined 
species of Appendicula. For the living plant from which I have drawn 
up above character I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Charles 
Ford, Superintendent of the Government Gardens, Hongkong, by one 
of whose collectors os was brought in. From the more t ical species 
it differs e usually conspicuous fleshy a closing the 
mouth of the spur being replaced by a delicate transv membrane 
drawn across the entire width, somewhat within the ape Mono but it 
appears in all essential respects a true member of the genus to which 
I refer it. It is an inconspicuous but rather pretty little plant, 
perhaps most nearly re) Ct the very imperfectly described C. dzcolor, 
- LindL., from the Philippin 
“NOTE ON THE GENUS AMPHIDONAX, N. as E, 
By H. F. Hanoz, Px.D., ere. 
origin a 
_ manifest error (alt having been inadvertently printed for binervis) 
ndo 
in the o deecniption 6 f the lower glumella. On this occasion Aru 
i aa eet Fa alag 
ag cemege Go Bot., 2nd. ed., 449. 
+ Synops. healiggen — 
