22 PHYTOGRAPHY OF THE 
named. §. plicata (G. Reichenbach, J. .,) from New Caledonia, ac- 
cording to Turpin’s delineation (La Billardiére, sert. Nov. Caled., t. 25) 
has the labellum saccate at the base. Two other allied plants of the 
genus are: S. plicata (Blumé, Bijdragen, p. 400) from India, and S. 
Pauline (F. Mueller, Fragmenta Phytographie Australia, vol. 6, p.95) 
from Queensland. 
PERISTYLUS Novo-EsuparuM (Habenaria Novo-Ebudarum, 
F. V. M.) 
Glabrous; leaves several, lanceolate, membraneous ; spike slender; 
bracts semi-lanceolate, acuminate, almost as long as the flowers; 
sepals very small, lanceolate-oblong, the inner two hardly shorter; 
labellum nearly as long as the inner sepals, broadly unguiculate, the 
upper part rhombiform in outline, with two shallow sinus in front, thus 
three-toothed, the teeth blunt, the middle one slightly longer; spur 
globular-ovate, gibbous, attenuated upwards, hardly half as long as the 
calyx; column extremely short. 
ANEITYUM, on hilly and bushy timberland. 
The whole plant about one foot high. Tuber narrow, ellipsoid- 
cylindrical, measuring ahout one inch in length. Petioles tubular, ex- 
cept the summit, the lower ones leafless and blunt; free part of the 
upper ones very short. Lowest leaves only about one inch long; all 
others attaining a length generally from two to four inches, and awidth 
of one-fourth to three-fourths of an inch; apex acute. Spike a few 
inches long. Bracts three to five lines long. Flowers, according to 
the discoverer of the plant, brownish-yellow. Sepals about one and 
a-half line long, the upper one almost oval, all bluntish and undivided. 
Labellum slightly downy on the surface, only crenated in front, the 
lateral teeth or lobes roundish ; cilia or conspicuous appendages none. 
Spur less than a line long, blunt at the base, turgid in front. Anther 
bluntly bilobed. Pollen masses, consisting of minute granules. Ovary 
slender, gradually attenuated to the summit, sessile. 
Peristylus Lawii (Wight, Icon. Plantar. Ind Orient., tab. 1695) 
from Malabar, shows the nearest affinity. The flowers of the Aneit- 
yum plant are still smaller, and the teeth of the labellum are still 
shorter and not acute. P. brevilobus (Thwaites, Enumer Plant. 
Zeilan., 311) differs already in its short and dense spike, and in the 
minuteness of the middle tooth of the labellum. The genus 
Habenaria, in its normal type, extends to Samoa, one long-spurred 
species having been discovered there by the Rev. S. J. Whitmee. 
Dendrobium Tokai exists there also. 
GASTRODIA OROBANCHOIDES. 
Racemes few-flowered, slightly hairy; bracts lanceolate, acuminate; 
pedicels extremely short ; calyces small, their lobes much shorter than 
