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ON DIDYMOPLEXIS SYLVATICA (LEUCORCHIS 
SYLVATICA Buvume). 
By H. N. Ruovtey, M.A., F.L.S. 
Tus rare orchid was described by Blume oy Vat Archip. Ind., 
p. 147), from a sketch and notes furnished by Van Hasselt, who 
met with it at Bantam in Java. There isa fina tien of specimens, 
which appear to be identical with Blume’s plant, in the Javan 
collection of Horsfield, named by Mr. J. J. Bennett Nani tophyllum 
( en too much crush 
to make out their structure quite satisfactorily, but I have ie 
Sree Griff. (Apetalon ee Wight, ‘ Icones, fils: a soo 
sid ov 
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about six inches to a foot in height, and leafless, except for a few 
loose cr aemeaiee bracts. ae bear numerous flowers, only a 
few bein en at a time, and as these appear the stem rae 
of short bracts, soni the number of flowers which, not “having 
been fertilised, have fallen off and disappeared. As in the other 
Species, when a flower is fertilised the pedicel begins to lengthen _ 
and increase in thickness till the capsule is ripe and splits, by 
which time it has attained the height of sometimes as much as 
nine Satie: Mr. Hemsley ourn. Linn. Soc., xx., p. 310), 
almost straight, narrowed towards the base, and with a very short 
foot ; han capsule is an inch long and } in. diameter. I append a 
Re LEXIs syuyatica (Leucorchis sylvatica Bl. Orch. Archip. 
Ind. p. 147). se vepnopny i rhizomate repente tuberoso, tuberi- 
bus fusiform: us; caulibus aphyllis, in floratione increscentibus ; 
bracteis ae obtusis ie wg ; floribus majoribus, sepalo 
Postico ovato obtuso integro, petalis subsqualibus subsimilibus 
