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central depression cut off by a transverse lamina. 
The large stigma with its elevated V-shaped lower margin 
is peculiar. 
Saccolabium odomtissimum, n. sp. 
Stems pendulous 2 feet or more long often purple. 
Leaves fleshy lanceolate acute, base rounded 2 \ inches 
long J inch wide, sheaths half an inch long ribbed when 
dry. Flowers in 1 or 2 short peduncles just above the 
axils, peduncles bearing 1-3 flowers. Bracts very short 
triangular lanceolate. Pedicels J inch long. Sepals 
and petals subsimilar-obovate spathulate tips rounded, 
yellowish blotched with light red i inch long. Lip base 
with two broad lobes oblong meeting in the mid-line at 
their apex, tips excurved, mid lobe ovate acute pure white 
with violet central spots in a depression at the base. Spur 
horizontal short half as long as the pedicel, dilated at the 
apex, and rounded; median callus between the side 
lobes an elevated ridge ocreous covered with pubescence; 
spur-callus linear bifid short yellow ocre, and pubescent 
at tip. Column white. Stelidia erect broad, obtuse. 
Anther ovate beaked. Pollinia globose bilobed pedicel 
long linear spathulate, disc oblong ovoid. 
Borneo,-, Mrs. Dare’s Garden, fl. October 1909. 
Brought by Mr. Dare from Borneo some years ago. 
Exact locality not known. 
Habenaria claims, n. sp. 
A tall plant 2 feet high with stout woolly roots and 
eight leaves. Leaves on a stem four inches long 
oblanceolate acuminate acute gradually narrowed to 
the base with a prominent keel, flaccid when dry 8 to 10 
inches long, 2 inches across in the widest part which is 
towards the tip. Raceme nearly 2 feet long, base nude 
with about 30 distant green flowers. Lowest bracts 
lanceolate acuminate caudate f- inch long, uppermost 
ovate acuminate \ inch long. Pedicel and ovary 1 inch 
long. Sepals upper one ovate cymbiform adnate to 
the petals keeled with a strong nerve running up each 
side at the junction with the petals ; lower sepals oblong 
falcate obtuse narrowed slightly towards the base J 
inch long. Lip short J inch long, trifid, base narrow 
linear limb rhomboid ovate with a short cylindric 
filiform tail on each side and a longer terminal one. 
Spur half an inch long cylindric slender curved slightly 
