232 THE BOTANY OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND. 



axillary peduncled, but too young to give any further 

 information about it. 



This is a very common liane all over the plateau, 

 but all search for flowers or fruit was in vain except of 

 a very young spike once found. It does not seem to 

 have been collected by any previous botanists. 



C. A medium-sized tree, branches slender covered 

 with rather stiff appressed pale hairs. Leaves opposite 

 lanceolate acuminate 4 inches long, one and a half inch 

 wide, nerves about 8 pairs not very distinct, dull green 

 nearly glabrous except for a few hairs on the midrib 

 beneath petiole ^ inch long. 



Common in the Plateau woods and on Phosphate 

 hill, I could find no trace of flowers or fruit. 



D. A shrub abundant at Waterfall bay on the rocks 

 in the wood, very closely resembling Clerodendron 

 inerme and possibly it, but I could not find a trace of 

 flowers or fruit though I visited the place at several 

 periods. 



Monocotyledons. 



ORCHIDEiE. 



Dendrobium pectinatum, n. sp. / 



D. Macraei Rendle (not of Lindley). 



Creeping stems £ inch through closely jointed, bran- 

 ches numerous 6-12 inches long greenish yellow pseudo- 

 bulbs elliptic oblong flattened 1-J inches long -£ inch 

 wide. Leaf lanceolate obtuse coriaceous 3 inches long 

 1 inch wide. Flowers opening singly -J inch long pale 

 yellow sepals lanceolate acute. Petals narrower lanceo- 

 late. Lip shorter, claw narrow linear, blade somewhat 

 dilated, slightly retuse with numerous very narrow 

 linear filaments on each side. 



Abundant on trees on Phosphate Hill and the Plateau, 

 flowering October. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



