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lioulato apice parvo cochleari basi hemisplMerico Tentricoso juxta colomnaiu 

 Bubit6 in calcar conicum extenso, 

 Borneo, IJohh, 



Flowers small, inconspicuous, furnished with hairs having broad 

 depressed glands. 



36. P, Blnmei, lAtidL L c. p. 504. 

 Ceylon, Thwaites (598). 



Plowers pale brownish red. with the blade of the lip white. 



XIII. Ehomboda. 

 Ovarium rectum. Sepalum dorsdle petalis agglutinatimi, an 



ticum 



cucullatum 



scrotum 



juxta basin. Columna brevis, alte cucullata, reaupinata, rostello 

 obtuso, antice liaeis 2 parallelis camosis elevatis apice eipan- 

 sis truncatis aucta. 



37. R. longifoKa. 



Sikkim, unique, J. D. !E. (335). 



A great caulescent plant. Leaves 6-8 inches long, standing 

 ^ce as high as . the scape, which has a pair of close-pressed 

 sheaths. Spike 6 inches long, very slightly downy. Bracts acu- 

 minate, shorter than the rostrate ovary. Flowers apparently dull 

 brownish red, smooth. Sepals subulate at the points ; petals un- 

 equally falcate, firmly glued to the upper sepal. The column 

 i^sembles a resupinate menibranous goblet, within which lies the 

 acimiinate anther. In front of the column grows a pair of con- 

 tiguous fleshy ridges which suddenly project into a strong ledge 

 at the base of the stigma. 



This genus most nearly resembles BTiampTiidia, from which 

 however the very peculiar apparatus in front of the column and 

 the internal appendages of the lip distinguish it. The latter are 

 lozenge-shaped, flat, petaloid, and terminate two deep red simple 

 veins originating at the base of the column. They are extremely 

 like what occur in Dossima lanceolata. 



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38. R. ovalifoKa. (Gk)odyera ovalifolia, Wi^fMy Ic. 1730.) 

 Sikkim, at 3000 feet, J. D. H. (337). 



N"eap B. (^Ooodyera) elongata, from which it is distinguished by 

 its lip, 3-lobed at the point, and its truly ovate oblong leaves. 

 \v ight*s figure is much exaggerated and inconsistent with itself. 



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