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G. A. C. HERKLOTS

FLOWERING SEASON:- -The last fortnight in June.

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ILLUSTRATIONS:-Figure 1 is of a complete plant, note decurved raceme; figure 2, a flower from side and end views and below a section through flower showing the purple veins; figure 3, the peduncle has straightened and seed pods have developed.

HAEMARIA, Lindl.

Sepals and petals nearly equal; the upper sepal and petals cohering in a helmet over the column, the 2 lower spreading. Labellum free, slightly saccate, with 2 tubercles at the base, flat, with a transverse dilatation at the end. Column narrow at the base, dilated at the top into a 2-lobed cup. Anther adnate to the hinder lobe. Pollen-masses 2, granular, connected by a gland at the top. (Bentham (2) p. 360-361).

DISTRIBUTION :-4 Species E. Asia, Malay Archipelago, South China:

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4 INCH

Figure 4.

1. INCH

Haemaria discolor, Lindl.

HAEMARIA DISCOLOR, Lindl.

(Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid 490).

Rhizome at the base of the stem slightly succulent and creeping. Stem pubescent, ascending to 6 or 8 in. Leaves 2 or 3, near the base, stalk- ed, ovate, I to 2 or 3 inches long, the upper ones reduced to sheaths. Fowers white, in a loose spike of 2 or 3 in. Ovaries pubescent, near 1⁄2 in. long.

The Hong Kong Naturalist.

The Hong Kong Naturalist.

Vol. III. Nos. 3 and 4.

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Plate 24.

Haemaria discolor, Lindl.

Cryptostylis arachnites, Blume

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