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SPECIES NOVAE INDIAE OEIENTALIS.

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Pedicelli fortes, 2^-3* cm longi, anthesi durante rubescentes, virides post anthesim. Flores gemini vel solitarii e nodis surgentes, subregulares, 3 cm in diametro; sepala et petala longifcudine subaequa- lia, pallidissime rubescentia ; sepala 15 mm longa, 7-8 mm lata, oblon- ga, apice subobtusa vel mucronata; petala cum labello late ovato-ob- longa, 15-17 mm longa, 10 mm lata, apice rotundata vel retusa. Columna brevissima, alba, basi duobus processibus atro-purpureis munita, ad quorum basim dorsalem duae sunt caveae profundae (nectaria?). Anthera terminals, opercularis, 2-locularis. Pollinia 4, cerea, per paria in loculis collateralia, libera, inappendiculata.

Gapsula circa 2 cm longa, 1 cm lata, pyriformis, processu cylin- drico clavato coronata.

Species haec absentia menti anomala. Distinguitur etiam sepalis petalisque conformibus.

Lecta a C. Mc Oann prope stationem viae ferreae Castle Rock in Provincia Bombayensi, mense Martio 1919 (Herb. S. X. C. no. 13768). Vide — Fig. 4.

Fig, 4. Dbndrobium actjnomorphum, Blatt. & Hall. Del. F. Hallberg.