Essays, Series II, vol. ii. p. 20) an extraordinary genealogy is given representing Adam as the father of Seth, Seth of "Nûr- chaya." Nûrchaya of Sang-yang Wĕnang Sang-yang Wĕnang of Sang-yang Tunggal, Sang-yang Tunggal of Guru, and Guru of Sangyang Sambu, Bĕrahma, Mahadewa, Bisnu, and Dewi Sĕri It is impossible to do much with this genealogy except to notice that "Guru" is treated as distinct from the "Mahadewa," another name for Siva. Thus Guru is represented as the father of the Hindu Trinity, and also of Sambu (whom I cannot identify) and Sĕri, who is the Hindu Sri, the goddess of grain and therefore a deity of immense importance to the old Javanese and Malays' "Sri" is the goddess invoked in another invocation in the Selangor Journal article of the 22nd February, 1895: where the Pawang addresses the padi:
"Lagi di dalam Shurga
"Bernama buah khaldi (?)
"Sampai ka-dunya bernama.
"Buah Sĕri, těnyang Sĕri."
"Jangan rosak jangan binasakan
"Buah Seri, těnyang Sĕri."
To this passage Mr. Skeat adds a note: "The Sĕri fruit may mean the blessed fruit (in the ordinary sense of Sĕri or Sri) and be given as a euphonious title to padi, but it reminds one strangely of 'Ceres," the goddess of grain.
R. J. W.
Calanthe vestita Lindl. in Selangor.
This well-known and popular orchid has rather a remark- able distribution, being found in Tenasserim and Borneo, and it might well be expected to occur somewhere in the intermediate region, especially in limestone districts. It does not occur, so far as is known in the Lankawi islands, where it might have been expected, being replaced there by the pretty C. rubens Ridl, but I found a single plant in a crevice in a tree on the top of the limestone rocks at the Kuala Lumpur caves (Gua batu). It was in perfect flower in December, and was a very fine form. The upper part of these rocks is in many places quite inaccessible, and indeed it is in but few places one can get
