58 PROFESSOR LINDLEY'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO 
this for it. "There are, however, these differences: the leaves are 
twice as broad and much less acuminate ; the spikes are so dense 
as to be almost ovate; the lateral sepals are not acuminate; the 
` lip is more rounded at the point and without the raised median 
line, instead of which there is only a slight convexity above with 
а corresponding concavity below. The linea verruculosa, ascribed 
by Blume to his E. annulata, does not exist in Zollinger's no. 15 
of his second collection, which I take for that species ; but there 
is a distinct elevated even midrib, with a slightly raised line on 
either side. 
$ X. CYLINDROLOBUS, Blume, Fl. Jav. pref. vi. (Ceratium, 
Id. Bijdr. 841.) 
There is nothing in the structure of the plants of this section, 
as far as I am acquainted with them, that corresponds with the 
character proposed by Prof. Blume in his Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 182. 
Undoubtedly a protuberance at the foot of the column does 
sometimes occur, but it affords no sectional mark ; for if it exists 
in E. nutans, it is not to be found in E. Khasiana, which is only 
distinguishable upon careful examination ; and itis a mere rudiment 
in Е. bicolor, another very closely allied species. The siliquose 
fruit is of as little importance. Ithink, however, that the section 
may be conveniently adopted for all the caulescent species whose 
flowers, whether lateral or terminal, are solitary or in pairs, and 
arise from among empty coloured bracts. Such is the principle 
upon which the following have been collected. 
A. Flowers terminal. 
309. E. TRUNCATA; folis З lanceolatis terminalibus apice subsqua- 
libus, floribus geminis ovario tomentoso, sepalis oblongis obtusis, pe- 
talis subszequalibus antrorsum arcuatis, labello carnoso truncato linea 
media tenui elevata infra apicem triplici. 
Moulmein, on Shoung-gyen at the height of 5000 feet, T. Lobb. 
* Flowers white." The lip has two small ovate lateral lobes ; 
but the middle lobe is obsolete, appearing only in the form of a 
broad line lying between the side lobes. 
310. E. pauciflora, Wight. Ic. t. 1636. 
Khasija hills, T. Lobb; Nilgherries, Wight. 
Wight's figure of thisis unusually good. The withered reflexed 
sheath at the base of the last joint of the stem seems to be cha- 
racteristic of the species. 
. $11. E. bicolor. (Dendrobium bicolor, Lindl. Gen. $ Sp. p. 90.) 
Ceylon, Thwaites (2761). | 
