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inflorescences, and broadish leaves. A. Veitchii (Belg. Hort., 1876, p. 291) 
is aform of the same, and has the same history. 
A. Godefroyanum (Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1886, xxv. p. 814) was 
introduced from Saigon in Cochin China, by M. Godefroy Lebeuf, and has 
long, complicate leaves, which give the plant a distinct appearance, and 
brilliantly coloured flowers with broad segments. It as since been referred 
to A. multiflorum. 
A. multiflorum in the aggregate sense, as now understood, has also been 
reported from the Andaman Islands, and Ridley also records it from Siam, 
so that it appears to be a very widely diffused and variable plant, but how 
far the different forms can be distinguished by absolute characters cannot 
be determined without a more complete series of specimens than is 
available for comparison. 
A. Fieldingii was introduced by Messrs. Veitch in 1850, through Thomas 
Lobb, together with Vanda ccerulea, and was long known in cultivation as the 
*‘Fox-brush Aérides,”’ being afterwards named in compliment to Colonel 
Fielding, an officer of the Indian army, in 1875 (Jenn. Orch., t. 20). It is 
very nearly allied to A. multiflorum, but has broad leaves, a very dense 
inflorescence, and the front lobe of the lipis very acute. Its principal 
habitat is given as Shillong, and the adjacent hills. A. Williamsii (Warn. 
Sel. Orch., i., t. 21) is a beautiful white variety which is believed to have 
been sent howe along with the type, and is very rare in cultivation. 
PAPHIOPEDILUM ROTHSCHILDIANUM ABNORMAL. 
A VERY curious flower of Paphiopedilum Rothschildianum has appeared 
in the collection of D. M. Grimsdale, Esq., Kent Lodge, Uxbridge, in 
which the staminode has reverted to its original character and come as a 
perfect anther, occupying a position at the back of the column, midway 
between the two normal anthers. Thus in this respect the flower is 
identical with that of Neuwiedia, the most primitive Orchid known, in 
which there are always three perfect anthers, situated at the back of the 
flower. The only other departure from the normal structure is that the 
lower sepal is divided to the middle into two. The abnormal flower is the 
terminal one on the spike, and as the rest are normal the occurrence is 
probably accidental. The chief interest in these abnormal flowers is the 
light they often throw on the evolution of the highly complex organism we 
now know as an Orchid flower, and the homologies of the different parts, 
and the present example would suffice to show that the staminode of this 
genus is only a modified stamen were the point any longer in doubt. 
K. A. RK. 
