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Batav. II. p. 187, n. 457 (1856), et Orchid. Archip. Ind. et Jap. (1858) 

 p. 139, tab. 52, fig. 3, et 54 E ; Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid, p. 500 (1840). 



Limoclorum roseum Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. (1825) p. 30. 



Ceratopsis rosea Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid, p. 384 (1840). 



Galera rosea Blume, Mus. Bot, Lugd.-Batav. II. p. 183, n. 458 (1856), 

 et Orchid. Archip. Ind. et Jap. (1858) p. 139, in nota. 



Epipogum roseum Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. I. (1857) p. 177. 



Poclanthera pallida Wight, Ic. PI. Ind. Orient, V. (1852) 1, p. 22, 

 tab. 1759 ; Blume, Orchid. Archip. Ind. et Jap. (1858) p. 139, in nota. 



Khizome tuberous, ellipsoid, subterranean. Scape simple, ascending 

 from the rhizome at the base, erect, slender, 24-56 cm. long and. 8-27- 

 flowered (in my specimens) ; sheaths about 5-6, short, apart, very thin, 

 scarious. Raceme narrow, laxly or subdensely flowered, erect, 6-25 cm. 

 long (in my specimens) ; bracts longer than pedicels, very thin, scarious, ovato- 

 lanceolate, tapering. Flowers nutant, shortly pedicellate ; pedicel arcuate 

 or hamato-arcuate, shorter than the ovary. Perianth connivent, very 

 thin, acuminate, 3-nervecl ; sepals narrowly lanceolate, about 8-10 mm. 

 long ; petals scarcely shorter, oblong-lanceolate. Labellum inferior, about as 

 long as sepals, sessile, broadly ovate, deeply concave, entire, several-nerved ; 

 disk with 2 cristato-glandular ridges along the centre ; spur straight, oblong, 

 retuso-emarginate at the end, much shorter than the labellum, about 4 mm. 

 long. Column short ; clinandrium fornicate, membranaceous ; anther large, 

 carnose, laterally compressed, 2-celled in front, truncate and shallowly 

 2-canaliculate dorsally. Pollinia 2, each with a filiform strap. Ovary el- 

 lipsoid, about 6 mm. long. Capsule ellipsoid, about 8 mm. long, terminat- 

 ing with the marcescent perianth. Seeds very minute, ellipsoid to obovoid- 

 oblong ; testa very loose, translucent, elegantly reticulated ; nucellus in 

 centre, minute, ellipsoid. 



Nom. Jap. Tashiro-ran (nov.) 



Hab. Prov. Hizen in Kiusiu : Shiroyama in Isahaya (Zentaro Tashirol 

 July 5, 1906). 



New to the Flora of Japan. 



Distrib. British India, Java, Australia, and West Africa. 



Pyrus (Malus) spectabilis Ait, Hort. Kew. <ed. 1, II. p. 175/ et ed. 

 2, III. p. 208 : Willd. Sp. PI. II. p. 1018 ; DC. Prodr. II. p. 635 ; Bot. 

 Mag. tab. 267; Sieb. et Zucc. in Abhandl. Akad. Muench. IV. 2, p. 131; 



