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described as a new species, under the name of G. fastuosum (Paxt. Fi.. 
Gard., ii. p. 159), and which at about the same time was also described and. 
figured by Wight as a new genus, under the name of Pattonia macrantha 
(Ic. Plant. Ind. Or., v. pt. i. p. 21, t. 1750). This Reichenbach called. 
Grammatophyllum macranthum (Xen. Orch., li. p. 16), and he followed 
Lindley in citing G. speciosum as also collected in Malacca by Griffith, but 
the fact is that the second species cannot be distinguished, and is simply 
G. speciosum, Blume. 
The species appears to be rather widely diffused, for Parish obtained it 
further north at Mergui, and Ridley records it from Singapore and 
numerous localities in the Malay Peninsula; while Korthals collected it 
in Borneo, and there are records from Sumatra and Bantam. Two- 
Philippine records we believe belong to the allied G. Wallisii, Rchb. fi, 
mentioned below, and a Moluccan record which arose through confusion. 
with G. scriptum, Blume, must be expunged. Ridley also gives the 
locality, Solomon Islands, but we do not know on what authority. We 
only know one species from the Solomon Islands, G. Cominsii, which is- 
mentioned below. 
G. Wa.uisu, Rchb. f., was described in 1877 (Linnaa, xli. p. 107), 
being based on materials collected at Manila, by Wallis. It was described 
as nearly allied to G. “ giganteum” (clearly a mistake for speciosum) and 
G. macranthum. We have not seen the original, but have little doubt in 
referring to it fine specimens afterwards collected in the Philippines by 
Loher, at Albay, in July, 1903, and Tayabas, in June, 1904, both in the: 
island of Luzon. The general character is that of G. speciosum, but the 
flowers are rather smaller, with relatively broader segments. There are: 
other records of a Philippine plant which may also be referred here, for J. 
van Volxem speaks of specimens of G. speciosum as growing on the highest 
forks of trees at Manila, ‘which no Orchid house in Europe is large 
enough to shelter,” and he adds, ‘‘ I even saw one of the finest in the full 
sun on a stunted tree in an opening in a brackish mangrove swamp” 
(Gard. Chron., 1878, i. p. 588). Boxall aiso records G. speciosum as. 
Philippine (Blanco Fl. Philip., ed. 3, Nov. App. p..245), but we suspect 
that both records refer to G. Wallisii. 
G. PANTHERINUM, Rchb.f., was described a year later (Gard. Chron., 1878,. 
i. p. 788), from materials collected by Goldie in New Guinea, and sent to Mr. 
B. S. Williams. The flowers were described as being as large as those of 
Cymbidium eburneum, and the sepals and petals narrower than in G. 
Wallisii, but there are no hairs on the disc of the lip. Nothing further 
seems to be known about it. 
G. LEopaRDINUM, Rchb. f., appeared ten years afterwards (Flora, 1888, 
p. 788), as a native of the Moluccas, but no clue was given to the collector. 
