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292 NOTES ON THE ORCHIDS OF TROPICAL AFRICA. 
genera are represented, and of these only five are endemic. The 
great deficiency lies in the epiphytic species. This is to be 
explained in part by Ale limited amount of forest-country, at least 
in the best explored parts. The grass plains which form so large a 
whole of the tropical portion of the continent _ be divided into 
three a the Western Forest or Guinea R , the Abyssinian, 
and the Central Region. The first of these contain the bulk o 
the epiphytic species. It has, however, been very little explored, 
and will do ubtless yield many more when further invedioetalil 
n made init. The characteristic genera are Bulbophyllum, 
Meg are ne sed @cum, sg Corymbis. It contains a con- 
si r of g of sap Indian affinities, only repre 
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sp 
C hetrostyla, Pogonia ore section), and Epipogon. Traces of 
elata (the Sierra Leone v y being only distinguished by its 
reddish colour) Teasgcladrs maculae and Cyrtopera Woodfordu. 
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e Abyssinian Region is very deficient in epiphytes, a few 
Polystachyas and Angreecums atid the only known species. Bul 
phylium, Megaclinium, and Vanilla are entirely absent. The Nootliags 
OnNER 
a Nae untuM.—The fruit of no species of this eons iecayee to 
have been described. A fruiting specimen of M. ? m Lindl., 
ed by 
in the Herbarium of the British Museum. The capsules are 
se oblong i in outline, with low waved ribs, all equal. They are 
half an inch long and a a quarter of an inch in diameter, and are 
crowned cred the relics of the perianth. 
NEA Exits Rid]., a hitherto known from Madagascar, 
was verse by the Rev. W. HK. Taylor, at Jomvu, in Nyika-lan 
It is called “Ndiko” by the natives, whe by boiling extract from the 
mot which are very numerous, a grey dye used for ornamenting 
ulophia Sracillima, n. sp.—Planta gracillima. Caulis basi 
babes, foliis vaginantibus Pn Files ta gracilia ogee 
acuta 6-8 uncias longa. Seapus erectus 
5 pedalis 
. Racemus biuneialis lusus. Flores parvi cixeiter 15, 4 uncia longi 
