/ [ffaUud- 
S Hf) 
the 
Botanies.! 
tr 
I 
subsequently described by Bindley in_ 
Register, 1 B47). Soeaatora produces among’ others 
holvoIaBl. (Malay loniwsula) ia yellowish coloured, 
and fragrant, V. sumatrana Schltr. is darker and 
gleaning* 
Ar&ohiiis flos-uvris L. la the universally known 
often cultivated" ,r worploR-Orohid ,T igreen with 
b**own sasiksss spots) with large flowers ana long 
spihe. It grows wild in the plains and the lower 
mountains regions„ (Java, Ball, Borneo, Malay Pen¬ 
insula). A. hookorlana Rchb.f. is reddish white 
(Borneo, Singapore, Malay Peninsula) and A. maingay11 
Schltr. is rei-brown, and wellkuown in Malay Pen¬ 
insula. 
amount 
of the kinds of Orchids of Soesate- 
ra is enormous. Thu beautiful species are not few, 
ai-d the interesting forms of some genera worth coll¬ 
ect ing. 
I hare stated the above with the intention to 
01 .devour to interest ova* flora for Japan. Many fold 
I have traversed and explored, the forests and mount¬ 
ains, and many articles about Orchids wore pabllahcd 
n different journals and papers. I have seen the 
increase of the amount of orchid-lovers and amateurs. 
In respect of one thing I deed not niccwoc^ from 
•♦he (thou dutch) government: to cake in the heart 
of the west coast in ft lovely situated town/a boia- 
i.i c garden, like Colombo in Coyion, Calcutta, Bombay 
and other towns in India, Penang am Singapore in the 
Straits. More 
the 
pxuyi 
litter&ture: 
Br.J.J. Smith t Bimmeration of t he Or- 
ch iftip^ae of Sumatra one. iiaiahhouraeg 
nds. Bar 1 ii i-Daklu m, ‘ 9 • 
1,S. V. 111 icuftti, F. A.H.5., The Orchid 
Grower T s Manual, yin. ed., London 1b77 - 
B~C. Baklmifcen van den Brink, Synops is 
of the ^orna.ouiar names and the ocono - 
mio Bsc of the" ln algincous Sohils of 
Java , Leiden, 1 /17 • / , 
Julian Costatin. Or.chidp.es Cultivcos, 
(Atlas des -), Livre I; Paris s.a. 
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