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toration Gastrochilus Wallich became invalid as being a symonym. He 

 thereby felt constrained to substitute Gastrochilus Wall, by Boesenbergia, a 

 name formerly proposed by Kuntze but not accepted. Accordingly the spe- 

 cies of Gastrochilus known to Schlechter, were rebaptised by him as Boesen- 

 bergia (in Fedde, Repertorium 1913). 



To my opinion the restoration of Gastrochilus Don might have been 

 left out. A once rejected generic or specific name should not be restored in 

 case that name was used during its period of non-validity to base a new 

 genus or species upon. And if the youngest application of the name has 

 been valid for 84 years as was the case with Gastrochilus Wall, it ough 

 not to make room for a name, which never till now has been reognized as 

 valid, though the first rejection of it was based on an error. 



Instead of Gastrochilus Don another name with the same signification 

 or an unsignificant metathesis of characters should have been applied 

 in which case the renaming of several species would have been 

 superfluous. 



The following species have been found till now in the Malayan 

 Archipel : 



Java: Gastrochilus panduratum Ridl. 1889, 110. also in Bali, Sumatra, 



Malacca, Cochinchinaand probably elsewhere cultivated. Probably a variety 



in Ceylon and India. 

 Java: Gastrochilus javanum K. Sch. endemic but perhaps too close 



allied to G. Curtisii, Bak, from Malacca. Tab nostra X, 

 Sumatra: G. angustifoliam Hall. 1898, 358, Deli. 



G. gracile Val n.sp. Bencoolen 

 Sumatra: G. violaceum Ridl. 1909, 56, Padang. 



Sumatra G. vittatum (N.E. Brown) Val. Gard. Chron. (1882) Loboc. 



G. Lörzingii Val n.sp. Sibulangit. 

 Borneo: G. hirtum Ridl. 1909, 56, Sarawak. 



G. bractescens Ridl. 1909, 56, Lundu. 



G. pulchellum Ridl. 1906, 229, in Sarawak Bidi. 



G. anomolum (Hall.) K.Sch {G. H allier i Ridl. 1899, 109), Mt Liang 

 Agang. 



G. parvum Ridl. 1905 Sarawak, Bidi. (non vidi descr). 



G. reticosum Ridl. 1905 Sarawak Bidi (non vidi descr). 



G. ornatum (Brown) Val. 111. hort. 33 (1886), 



G. pulcherrimum Wall. 1830, t.24 Also of Burmah and Penang. 



G. brevilabrum Val n.sp.: Central Borneo. 



G. grandi folium Val 1914 t.377 Central Borneo. 



G. apiculafum Val Tab. nostra XI. 



G. striatum Val Tab. nostra Xll. 



G. laxiflorum Val Tab. nostra Xill. 



