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Page 339. An additional synonym for Platylepis goodyeroides , Rich., is P. occulta , 
Rchb, f. (in Linnsea. vol. VII. pt. I. 1876) p. 62. 
Page 340. Goodyera nuda , Thouars. The citation of Richard’s work should he 
erased, Richard’s plant having been distinguished from Thouars’ by Prof. 
Reichenbach (1. c. p. 60) as Monochilus Boryi. This species has not been found 
in Mauritius. 
Page 341. The following genus was inadvertently omitted. 
10 # VANILLA, Plum. 
Sepals and petals subequal, patent. Labellum adnate to the column, usually 
entire, concave, with a median bearded or pubescent ridge or plate, usually slightly 
gibbous at the base. Column elongated, terete ; anther terminal, appendaged at each 
side ; pollen-masses 2, 2-lobed, mealy, without prolongations. Capsule large, fleshy, 
aromatic.— Scandent herbs with stout, flexuous stems. Leaves fleshy or absent. 
Flowers conspicuous, usually clustered on stout axillary or terminal peduncles. — 
Distrib. The genus is found in the tropics of both worlds. 
1. V. Phalsenopsis, Rchb.f. in Flore des Serves , it. 1769-70. A scandent leafless herb. 
Stem stout, longitudinally grooved, dark green, articulate at the nodes and giving off 1 * * * V. 
there a single unbranched aerial root. Peduncles very thick, the axillary ones more 
than 2 in. long, the terminal apparently much longer ; bracts deltoid, acute, \ in. 
long ; pedicel and ovary about If in. in length, terete, longitudinally grooved ; 
flowers nearly 3 in. diam., crowded. Sepals ovate-oblong, subacute, entire, about 
2f in. long, white with faint yellow suffusion below. Petals like the sepals, but 
cuneate-ovate and somewhat undulated. Labellum entire, widening upwards, 
obtuse, undulated, with two median longitudinal pilose ridges reaching to the 
middle on the inner face, bright yellow inside, pinkish outside, in. long. 
Lateral lobes of the anther rotundate, crenulate. Capsule linear, subterete, about 
4 inches long. Rchb. f. in Linncea, 1876, p. 66. 
Seychelles, common in all the islands, Horne ! Bernard. Closely connected with 
V. Walker ice, Wight, of Ceylon and V. aphylla, Bl. of Java. 
Page 345. BnXbophyUum sechellarum has lately been described by Reichenbach 
(1. c. p. 93). 
