breviter unguieulato sagittato-cordato acuto v. —n "— medio 
tubereulum c carnosum erectum ferente, columna chert 
Has cA ides of South America. 
Caules 14-2 pt longi. falio, b Dou. longa, 2-1 po 
Pedunculi $ po > Io ongi. Bra ong. E is iz E: 
AE igs a; fenestre 4 fh ree Pe la 2 Ba. 
Label 21 fi. Te Columna 1} lin. longa, . " 
wild specimen of this species was presented to Kew in August 
1889, by Mr. J: Charlesworth, of Heaton, Bradford, who had collected 
it in some part of the Andes of South Ameri ica, noti precisely indicated. 
In Dod Wine a potion: was sent from Glasnevin E. 
Ao \.L:5., for determination, wh peppers ^ li belon ngs to the 
2 smaller » the 
310: 
pm n ne le d 7 er o. E. 
es of t enger, d the. tubercle i the Jase: o 
"x lip She Ter developed. In other respects it agrees € with 
the dried specimen. | It is allied to ^e West Indian C. atropurpureus, 
Rolfe, but the flowers are structurally different, and veined with 
EE on 2 aint isle» geun. 
HI 
CEEE eey Wy ty Toa FAT. 
Mere brevissima biden 
Has.—Malaya. 
Folia 3-4% poll. longa, 12-21 poll. lata. Scapus 6-8 poll. longus. 
Bractee 2—4 lin. longe. Pedicelli 5-6 lin. longi: ttem posticum 
lonant, llin. li ia 4 lin. 
6 lin. : lon a, lj lin, bis. Petala 
This handsome Microstylis 5; tho d iso 
floweréd In the collection of Sir Trevo or icc in May 1894. 
leaves gd met identical with those of M. Scottit, Hook. fil. 
Mag., t. 7268), for uu it was purchased, and no difference was 
detected aem it flow The flowers, however, are many times 
larger than. in that pag and very different in colour. The sepals 
and petals are light yellowish green, the lateral sepals being a little 
suffused with dull purple at the tip, and the large lip deep red-purple. 
The.leaves are light yellowish brown with an. irregulat marginal band 
of light "a It presumably grows with M. Scotti, of Nor a 
| there 
num Mob xi 
ge plants were imported. about a year ago, infe 
is some , V WA ‘about the precise locality. It is biy wever, to 
har come from Pulau Aar, a. small island just off the east oe m 
Johore. Iti is pee EL distinet. di e 
114. Dendrobium inflatum, Rolfe; caulibus gracilibus taretibens sub- 
flexuosis, foliis oblongis diis: v: minute bidentatis, racemis termin- 
.paucifloris, bracteis oblongo-lanceolatis - aentis, sepalo postico 
obtuso, lateralibus triangulo-ovatis basi eum pede columnae 
in mentum amplnm inflatum: obtusum extensis, petalis oblongis obtusis, 
hielo obortspathils te pinta Smaulate undulato eenias columna 
brevissima, Miami a guit 
“Han Tava” aitat] adye Y delb m »noide 
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