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- of providing for the repayment of the floating debt and for 
the c mentioned in paragraph l of this 
Des sath may be left in abeyance for the present and the introduction 
of a Bill providing the raising of a loan by Treasury Bills as authorised 
by my Despatch No. 258 of the 8th of October should be deferred. 
In order to save time I am sending a duplicate of this Despatch to 
the X dfüfstrátor of Dominica. 
ave, &c. 
(Signed) J. CHAMBERLAIN. 
DIII.—NEW ORCHIDS.—DECADE 16. 
151. Restrepia sanguinea, Jo/fe; caule secundario brevi, vagini 
lanceolatis acutis conduplicatis carinatis immaculatis, foliis "elliptiels 
v. vltra connatis lobis apice subacutis, etalis basi lineari- Tiriceolatis 
abrupte valde attenuatis apice subclavatis, labello subpandurato-oblongo 
truncato verruculoso lobis lateralibus faleato-setaceis, columna clavata 
incurva. 
Har.-—Colombia. 
Folia 13. pot longa, 8 Jin. lata. Vagine 10 lin, longe. Pedunduli 
14-13 poll. longi. Bractec 3 lin. longe. Sepala 9 lin. longa. Petala 
74 lin. longa. Labellum 5 lin, longum, 14 lin. latum, Columna 3 lin. 
longa. 
Introduced by Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., of Bradford, with 
whom it flowered in November last. It much resembles R. pandurata, 
Rchb. f., in general character, but apart from structure it differs from 
that and every other species in having wholly crimson flowers, with the 
exception of a small yellow blotch at the base of the coiumi and the 
extreme base of the lateral sepals. 
152. Dendrobium quadrilobum, Rolfe; sarmentosa, caulibus ramosis, 
pseudobulbis ~ fusiformi-oblongis brevibus monophyllis, foliis oblongis 
v. elliptico-oblongis obtusis sessilibus, floribus terminalibus solitariis, 
bracteis ovatis acutis concavis, sepalo postico ovato-oblongo subobtuso 
Kerai apice triangulo-ovatis obtusis basi cum pede columnæ in 
mentum longum extensis, petalis ovato-oblongis obtusis, labello trilobo 
lobis lateralibus erectis angustis apice rotundatis denticulatis intermedio 
profunde obcordato-bilobo laciniis rotundatis, disco bicarinato, columna 
brevissima. 
Har.—Uncertain, but probably New Guinea or one of the adjacent 
islands. 
Caules 6-9 poll. longi. Leo 1-1 poll. longi. Folia 1-1} 
poll. longa, 5-7 lin. lata. Bracte@ 1 liu. longe. Pedicelli 6 lin, jong’. 
Sepalum posticum 4 lin. longum, 2 lin. latum; lateralia 1 poll. longa, 
4 lin. lata. Petala 4 lin. longa, 14 lin lata, Labellum 11 lin. 
longum, 6 lin. latum. iius 1 Yin, longa. Mentum 9 lin. longum. | 
A very distinct species of the section Cadetia, received in 1895 
along with other Dendrobes, from F. A. poor Esq., M.P., Nun- 
eaton, who obtaiued them from po It flowered at Kew in 
