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seen fruit on wild plants. It seems to be local in 

 Penang, growing over trees to no great height at Batu 

 Feringhi. It flowers .nearly all the year round. Mr. 

 Sprague of Kew proposes to call this Nyctocalos Curtisii 

 as the plant is hardly a typical Tecoma. It is however 

 so utterly different from any other species of this genus, 

 that it will perhaps be preferable to retain it in the 

 genus Tecoma till we can obtain fruit of it. 



Orchide^:. 

 Microstylis aurata, n. sp. 



Stem an inch long hardly bulbous. Leaves 6-9 erect 

 narrow lanceolate acuminate, inacquilateral narrow at 

 base into a petiole winged to the base 6 inches long 

 1 wide or narrower. Scapes 1 or 2, slender 6 inches 

 lengthening with flowering to one foot, base (about 4 

 inches^ nude except for a few linear bracts ^ inch long, 

 4 angled. Floral bracts lanceolate acuminate longer 

 than the pedicels. Flowers very numerous opening one 

 or two at a time about 50 sepals ovate, laterals rather 

 broader than upper one J inch long three nerved blunt. 

 Petals narrower linear one nerved blunt. Lip auricles 

 very large recurved red, ovate lanceolate acute, as large 

 as the rest of the lip, limb obovate narrower at the 

 base and enlarged into two rounded oblanceolate lobes, 

 elevated veins at the base between the auricles column 

 short with very short arms. Capsule elliptic oblong ^ 

 inch long. 



Sarawak : Quop. Fls. yellow, lateral lobes of lip red, 

 (J. Hewitt). 



Siparis Downii, n. sp. 



Stem about 1^ inch long. Leaves few elliptic lanceo- 

 late herbaceous 3 inches long f inch across slightly 

 narrowed to the base acute at the tip. Peduncle slen- 

 der terete 4 inches long. Bracts linear acuminate J 

 inch long deflexed. Flowers 5, smalt, ovary and pedicel 



R. A. Soc, No. 49, 1907. 



