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simulates the upper in form and colour, and though morphologically abnot- 
mal the beauty of the flower is rather enhanced than not. A very curious 
monster of P. Charlesworthii appeared in the collection of Oakes Ames, 
Esq., North Easton, U.S.A., in 1896, and is described at page 44 of our fifth 
volume. It had the lower sepal divided, half of the lip wanting, the stigma 
petaloid on one side, with other displacements of parts. Forms with two 
lips and twin-flowered scapes have also been mentioned in our pages. Our 
illustration also includes a second flower of P. Charlesworthii (on the left), 
and two of P. Spicerianum (in the centre), and the latter species, though so 
different in shape and colour, is on the whole the nearest ally of P. 
Charlesworthii, which it closely resembles when out of flower. 
ORCHIDS IN PENANG. 
A PAPER entitled “A Botanical Excursion to Gunong Jerai (Kedah 
Peak),” by H. N. Ridley,. F.L.S., Director of the Singapore Botanic Garden, 
published in the recent number of the Journal of the Asiatic Soeiety, Straits 
Settlement Branch, contains some interesting notes on the Orchids met 
with during a journal to Kedah Peak, madein June 1893, in company with 
Mr. Curtis. Kedah Peak is described as a great isolated mountain which 
forms a conspicuous object in the view from Penang. 
‘‘ Orchids,’ observes the author, ‘‘are far more numerous here than on 
Mount Ophir, and in some places form an important portion of the vegeta- 
tion. In some spots the ground was so thickly covered by them that one 
was nearly up to the waist in them. Among the more striking were 
Spathoglottis aurea, Cypripedium barbatum, Dendrobium sanguinolentum 
and more commonly the pale ochre-coloured form cerinum, D. Hughii, 
with large thin white flowers tinted with violet, and D. revolutum. 
Bulbophyllums were very abundant. Among them were B. longiflorum with 
large pink striped flowers with an orange lip, and B. hispidum, only met 
with at the very summit, with clusters of fairly large deep red hairy flowers 
with a very putrid odour. Upwards of fifty kinds of Orchids were collected 
here, of which eight are peculiar to the range.” 
At the outset the voyagers were delayed by a storm, and had to take 
ee on the island, where some collecting was done. _‘“‘ Orchids,” we are 
told, ‘‘were not wanting on the trees by the beach. Aérides odoratum 
seemed common and was in bud, and some fine plants were secured. It 
seems to havea liking for the sea shore, as I have several times found it 
abundantly on the smaller islets in the Straits in similiar localities. Eria 
bractescens, Cirrhopetalum Medusz, the common Cymbidium (aloifolium), 
and the pigeon Orchid (Dendrobium crumenatum) were also found, but 
were not in flower.” 
