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disappears, the plants lose their leaves. Reichenbach subsequently made 
a distinct section of Phalznopsis, called Esmeralda, for the plant on 
account of the presence of two linear appendages on the stalk of the lip. 
He also described three additional species, namely, P. antennifera (Gard, — 
Chron., 1879, i. p. 398), sent by Mr. Stuart Low; P. Regnieriana (lc. 
1887, ii. p. 746), introduced from Cochin China by M. Regnier, and P. 
Buyssoniana (I.c., 1888, ii. p. 295), also from M. A. Regnier. These, how- 
ever, are now regarded as only variations of P. Esmeralda, which varies 
considerably in colour, and somewhat in size. The species has also been 
recorded from Cambodia, Burma, the Langkawi Islands, and from Setul 
and Patani, in the Malay Peninsula. 
The section Esmeralda has always been anomalous in Phalzenopsis, on 
account of the long, slender unguis of the lip, with its pair of linear 
appendages, and as there are other differences of structure, and the habit of 
the plant is'distinct, it will be necessary to recognise Lindley’s original 
name. Doritis pulcherrima is a very free-flowering and attractive plant, 
throwing up numerous erect, sometimes branched spikes in the summet 
and autumn, the flowers varying from purple to lilac, and occasionally 
nearly white, with a rather darker lip. About a dozen pans of it, each 
containing several plants, are now making a good display at Kew, and 
showing much variation in size and colour. 
This clears up Lindley’s original genus Doritis, and we now come to 
the species which have been subsequently added. In 1860 Reichenbach 
transferred Lindley’s Dendrobium bifalce (Benth. Bot. Sulph., p. 180, t- 58), 
a native of New Guinea, to Doritis, under the name of D. bifalcis (Hamb. 
Gartenz., xvi. p. 116), but this was clearly a mistake, for the somewhat 
imperfect specimen agrees with what was afterwards described as 
Dendrobium chloropterum (Rchb. f. & S. Moore in Journ. of Bot., 1878, 
p- 137, t. 196), which thus becomes a synonym of D. bifalce. Bentham 
afterwards suggested that the New Guinea Carteretia paniculata, A. Rich. 
(Sert. Astrolab., p. 10, t. 4), was a Doritis, again a mistake, for the plant 
clearly belongs to the Saccolabium group. A few other species which have 
been added to Doritis are also seen to be out of place now that the original 
species has been cleared up, being quite distinct in structure. For these n° 
existing name is available, and we propose that of Kingiella, in memory © 
the work of the late Sir George King with Indian Orchids. The nam© 
Kingia, in honour of the Australian voyageur, Captain King, is already 
appropriated for a remarkable tree-like rush from $.W. Australia. 
KINGIELLA is characterised by the union of the lateral sepals with the 
base of the lip, forming a spur-like mentum, from which the lobes are borné 
directly, without an unguis furnished with linear appendages. The following: 
are the species :— 
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