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half as = as those of the larger stamens. Style sekey rr in. 
it, 
neither dehiscent nor wr He 5-celle as ; 
stipitate, renate. Seeds very numerous, about "1-16th in. site 
crowded all over the placentas, closely filling the cavities, twice or 
ee longer than broad, somewhat angular, from the convex 
mmit gradually narrowed downward; testa pale brownish, 
fetinulated, shining. 
From the only allied species hitherto known, namely, 4. 
meliphagidum Beccari (Malesia i. 209), the present one is separated 
by shorter petioles, connate bracteoles, not conspicuously five- 
dentate calyces, acute lobes of the corolla, the not obtuse connective 
of the anthers; the fruit of the two may also pro va ir erent. 
A. Moorhousiana (F. y. Muell. in Wing’s 8. Science Record, new 
ser. 11. Feb., 1886) occurs also in Mr. Forbes’s silesiee (764). rt 
the “eae along the branches. The fruit main 
a letter accompanying the above asaceiptions, Baro on von 
Mueller has asked me to compare them with the larger series of 
) 
may be noted that in 
peduncles are poulanelin 2 -6t hi in. long or obsolete, solitary or two 
together, and the bracts ride a solita: tage not deciduous, at the 
base of the lower pedicels, alternate with the connate bracteoles, or 
two at the base of me — topmost pedicels, alternate. Mr. ou orbes’s 
no. = (from sane wish 5000 ft.) also belongs 
1es.— W. Sawdie 
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NOTES ON THE ORCHIDS OF TROPICAL AFRICA. 
By H. N. Rotey, M.A., F.L.S. 
Wuen one compares the Orchids at present known from 
Tropical Africa with those of any other tropical region of equal 
extent, it is —- to avoid being struck by the comparative 
city of species to be found in it. Not much more than thirty 
