208 
It is usual to begin work at about 4 o’clock in the afternoon and to 
work all night, washing and skimming the oil in the cool of the 
whi iad 
From careful experiments carried out under my supervision I find 
that two bandiedweighes of palm nuts give nacn two imperial erroni 
of oil, or an aver age of a gallon a hundred w 
o less than 150,000 tons of palm nuts are each year gathered from 
15, O trees, 
very stage in the manufacture of Lagos oil is marked by great care 
' and cleanliness, and the result is a remarkably pure sample of oil. 
(Sign 
+ 
ed) ALVAN MiLLsON, 
Assistant Colonial Secretary. 



CCLXIII.—NEW ORCHIDS: DECADE 3. 
poll. lata. Flores soi dm solitarii, axillares. Sepalum A 
li : 
orso carinatum ateralia omnino connata, basi 2} lin. lata, 
exteris sepalo postico similia, Petala La pn subulata, 2 lin. longa. 
Labellum cordato-oblongum, subobtusum, carnosu 
um, muriculatum, 
subtus infra apicem minute incisa. Columna brevissima 
A species belonging to Lindley’s group Macrophylle fasciculata, 
and allied to P. Cardium, Rehb. f., but differing in its much longer and 
2. Lepanthes gracilis, Rolfe, n. sp.— Caules graciles, aoga 
bispiduli, 14-23 poll. longi; vaginarum limbus ovatu us, mucronatus, 
denticulatus. Folia elliptica, sophie a -1 ll. longa, 5-8 lin. 
ata. Racemi foliis breviores, 1-1} poll. longi, distichi. Bracteæ con- 
i $ o 2 : ovata, acuta, 
1j lin. longa, lateralia semilibera. Petala obliqua, a obtusa, basi 
in auriculam prec dtes m laminam fere zquantem extensa, 1 lin. 
longa. Labelli unguis columns adna us hi ippoeeilormis apice 
acute bilobus, lobi laterales reflexi, acuti. Columna brevissi 
This T species has eer flowered in the Kew Ville, but 
: ay oak semi veces border on the inner ide. a yellow lip, and 
= dull purple column, 
“93. Restrepia d entata, Rolfe, n. sp.—Planta cæspitosa, parva, caulibus 
: brevibus Folia ovato- PUN bens minute tridenticulata, carnosa, ` 
