236 THE BOTANY OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND. 



I cannot distinguish this plant from the G. pallens 

 of India and the Malay peninsula. It is probably a 

 native too of Java, but I am doubtful as to the D. 

 pallens of Smith in the Ic. Bogor, found at Buitenzorg. 



Zeuxine exilis, n. sp. 



Whole plant 12-18 inches tall succulent, rhizome 

 shortly creeping, roots fleshy. Leaves lanceolate acute 

 light green 1-3 inches long |-f inch wide glabrous, 

 shortly petioled, sheaths papery % inch long. Stem 

 white-hairy, peduncle (portion of stem above leaves) 

 3-6 inches long, raceme many flowered 1-3 inches long. 

 Bracts lanceolate acuminate hairy. Sepals reddish hairy 

 lanceolate acute J inch long. Petals thin white adnate 

 to the upper sepal. Lip base saccate with broad wings, 

 then narrowed, limb broadly bilobed, lobes broad oblong 

 divaricate edges crenulate, processes in the base of the 

 lip 2. slender subulate curled, whole lip white with a 

 central yellow bar. Column short, anther . lanceolate 

 beak up curved dull red, pollinia elongate pyriform, disc 

 large oblong. Bostellum lobes linear acuminate. No 

 accessory processes. Capsule pubescent elliptic | inch 

 long. 



Centre of the island, among ferns not rare. 

 Endemic. 



Amaryllideae. 



Crinum asiaticum, L. The common white Crinum of the 

 Indo-Malayan shores, is abundant on the rocks in 

 many places, e.g. Andrews Look-out, N. E. point, at 

 the Waterfall and Rocky point. It grows in clefts in 

 rocks often in somewhat inaccessible places over 

 the sea, and occasionally on the more inland terraces. 

 The form is quite typical. It commenced to flower 

 at the close of our stay and fruit were also found. It 

 is a natural flowering plant, and a certain attraction 

 for Sphinx Convolvuli, of which insect I took two or 



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