47 
Closely allied to S. picta, € but the perianth-segments are only 
"about half the size, and the ves are of a peeuliar olive-brown or- 
` metallic shade, frequently bots a number of paler spots. It first 
flowered with T Veitch i in 1882. The flowers are light green with- 
a whitish lip. 
159. Macodes sanderiana, Wolfe ; foliis ovato-oblongis v. elliptico- 
oblongis subacutis in petiolum attenuatis insigniter variegatis, scapo 
elato pubescente multifloro, bracteis 
sepalis ovato-oblongis obtusis concavis, petalis lineari-oblongis obtusis, 
‘abello basi ventricoso apice spathulato obtuso, sacco basi biglandulo so 
apice utrinque dum ato, columna brevi.— 4n«cctochilus sanderianus,. 
Kranzl. in Gard. Chron., 1895, xviii., p. 
Has.—Sunda mes Forget. 
olia 24-4 poll. longa, -— poll. lata. Scapus 1 ped. altus; 
r&cemus 3 poll. longus. Bross e 3 lin. longo. Pedicelli 4-5 lin. longi. 
Uem et — 21-3 lin. ionii Labellum 24 lin. longum. Columna 
2 lin. 
Introduced by Messrs. F. Sander & Co., with whom it flowered in 
December last. It is allied to M. argyroneura, Rolfe (Hemaria argy- 
a por but, among other characters, the ——— the nd 
greenish-yellow veins, and the flowers = green lightly aarme" with 
brown 
160. Holothrix Johnstoni, Holfe ; scapo piloso, bracteis ovatis acutis: 
concavis pilosis, sepalis o long is obtusis concavis conniventibus apice 
pilosis, petalis linearibus obtina sepalis duplo longioribus, labello basi 
oblongo apice MERE VOR ee lobis oblongis obtusis, calcare brevi 
conico obtuso, columna breviss 
Has.— British Cental try upper Plateau of Mlanje, near Zomba, 
Sir H. H. Johust 
-Scapi 5 poll. eli racemi AP. poll. longi. Bractee 2-25 lin Jonge. 
Pedicelli 2 lin. lon ongi. Sepala 2} lin. longa. Petala 5 lin. longa. 
Labellum 44 lin. longum. eerie lin. i e umna à lin. longa, 
This resembles the South African Æ. con , Sond., but diffe: 
in its much larger flowers, mid WEET ts The Taves” are 
unknown, 
DIV.—fWO AFRICAN HOLARRHENAS. 
Soe ete Toca A. DC., and 7. febrifuga, Klotz.) 
ade of Holarr, 
M ve valid at Lagos *' the vm rubber tree.” Specimens of this 
plant had been received at Kew on two occasions as the true rubber 
tree of Lagos. ‘The latter, as stated in the Bulletin, has been deter- 
mined to be Kickxiu africana, Benth. 
The chief economie interest attached to Holarrhena africana is on 
account of its medicinal properties. According to Wulfsberg,* the bark 
* Holarrhena africana, A.DC. Inaugural dissertation of N, Wulfsherg (of 
Christiana). Gottingen, 1880. 
