826 ON THE MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS OF NEW GUINEA. 
broader and slightly flattened, with two short fleshy erect lobes, 
and a groove between them. 
compressa incomplete 4-loculata. Stigma ovali triangulare pro- 
fondum. Pollinia ovata 4. Ovarium globosum flavum bullatum. 
Sogere, 1800 ft., Nos. 892, 578. 
is is a very curious-looking plant, in some respects nearly | 
akin to Blume’s Cochlia violacea, as far as can be judged from his | 
meagre description and his figure of the flower. That species, 
however, is said to have a capitate inflorescence. e scape 18 
freely branched, having numerous distant slender branches, bearing 
e very small globose flowers. The sepals and lip are covered 
with warts or bulle ; the teeth of the column are short, blunt, and 
ost bifid. 
Bulbophyllum grandiflorum Bl. and B. Gerlandianum Kranz. 
are also recorded from New Guinea. 
m the base of the lip in the median line. The whole plant dries 
black, as do others of the same section. : 
ria pube nh. sp.—-Caulis pseudobulbosus 8 uncias longus. 
Folia 3 uncias longa, } uncia lata lanceolata acuminata acuta bast 
angustata. Racemi plures 2} unciales, basibus vaginis ampliatis 
tectis, rachide puberulo. Flores parvi plures patuli. Bractew 
a 
angustatum, lobi laterales anguste lineares faleati, obtusi, medius 
major obtusissimus ellipticus oblongus. Columna erecta parum 
curva, ventre carinata presertim ad basin. Stigma profundum 
_ prom . clinandrii parve. 
> South Cape. - is 
_ *hreatia albiflora, n. sp. — Pusilla ox itosa, breviter caule- 
yy ee. rinata 
