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Ill. b. Lindley in Contrib, 1. ¢. hee habet: “This is certainly a plant of the same genus as Goodyera 
procera, and no Aetheria, as Professor Reichenbach supposes.” Kquidem, in Seemannia Bonplandia, vol. 
du, p. 214, plantam pro Ae¢heria proposueram. Jam mihi yix placet, nune de difficillimis Goodyeraceis 
sententias proferre, cum plures adhue mihi sint melius investigandz, ac misera specimina concedunt. III, 
Lindley, ubi protulit, qu indicavi, labellum solum inspexit. Goodyera procera tamen, ut omnes Goodyere, 
stigma habet confluens, Rhamphidia rubicunda, uti Rhamphidia rubens, erura duo stigmatica inter se re- 
mota tenet, 
V. Tropidia, Lindl. Bot. Reg. f. 1618. Sepala oblonga, lanceolata, lateralia ima basi in 
mentum obliquum extensa, Tepala sepalo supremo zequalia, Labellum naviculare, apice dilatatum, 
intus 3-carinatum. Columna breviuscula, apice sub:equalis, rostello bifido, a sepalo dorsali libera, 
Anthera oblonga, Pollinia 4, pulverea (?), in caudicula lineari, Glandula subguadrata.— Habitus 
Elleanthi (Evelyne). 
1, T. effusa, (sp. nov.) Reichb, f.; panicule rhachi fractiflexa; bracteis bipectinatis, ovatis, 
acutis, 7-nerviis, oyaria pedicellata florida subeequantibus; sepalis tepalisque lanceis, acuminatis ! 
mento obtusangulo, parvo; labello naviculari 8-nervio apice lanceo-reflexo; columna brevi.—Somo- 
somo, Island of Taviuni (Seemann! n. 612); Viti Levu (Greeffe!), 
Descripsi specimen Herbarii Kewensis, quod satis bene conyenit cum speciminibus duobus Grieffeanis. 
Specimen quod ego teneo Seemannianuin racemum simplicem habet, sed videtur esse ejusdem plants. 
“ Flores flavi.”” Caulis pedalis, foliis cuneato-oblongis acuminatis. 

VI. Corymbis, Thouars, Orch. t. 37, 88. Sepala oblonga, lateralia nune connata. Tepala 
subsequalia. Lahellom naviculare, apice dilatatum, intus bicarinatum. Columna clavata, apice dila- 
tata, rostello bifido, sepalo summo adnato, post anthesin elongata, Anthera ovata, Pollinia 4, 
pulverea (?) in caudicula lineari. Glandula quadrata—Habitus preecedentis, inflorescentia ramosa. 
1, ©. veratrifolia, Reichb. fil. m Flora, 1865, p, 183.—Hysteria veratrifolia, Reinw. in Flora, 
1825, vol. i. p. 5. Rhyncanthera paniculata, Bl. (Tab. LXXVIIL.) (ovario false triloculari). Me- 
crostylis disticha, Kuhl et y. Hasselt, Orch. Corymbis disticha, Lindl. Folia Orchid. vol. 1. e. p.—Viti 
Levu and Ovalau (Seemann! n. 603; Barclay!). Also in the Malay Archipelago, and in India. 
Planta arundinacea. Folia disticha, cuneato-oblonga, acuminata, multinervia, plicata. Panicule axil- 
lares, Bractew distiche, triangule, acute. 
Susprrizus Il. EUOPERCULATA, Reichb, f.—Anthera incumbens, mobilis, tota demum decidua. 
Pollen ceraceum seu pulposum seu pulvereum. 
a. AnetHuse®, (Lindl,) Reichb. f—Pollen pulposum seu pulvereum, 
VII, Epiphanes, BI. Bijdr. p. 421. Perigonium externum connatum, sepala lateralia altius, 
profundius fissa, sepalum dorsale cum tepalis alte connatum. Labellum explanatum, column pedi 
producto articulate impositum, Columna arcuata basi in pedem producta. Anthera terminalis, 
4.locellaris, Pollinia farinaceo-pulposa semilunata. Fovea immediate sub androclinio.—Tuber 
crassum, horizontale. Caules crassuli, vaginati, apice racemosi.—Vultus Orobanchoidei, 
1, EB. micradenia, (sp. nov.) Reichb. f.; labello flabellato apice minutissime tuberculato.— 
Island of Ovalau, in woods, very rare (Seemann! n, 610). 
Tuber crassum, subfusiforme, Caulis supra tuber radicibus filiformibus, Pedunculus teres, quatuor 
quinque usque pollices longus, vaginis ochreatis acutis brevissimis. Racemus pauciflorus. Bractew tri- 
angulw, ovariis pedicellatis multo breyiores. ‘Tubus perigonialis sat longus. Sepalum dorsale et tepala 
labium trifidum, sepala inferiora labium bilobum sistentia. Columna compages mihi haud adeo lucida. 
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