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$€pala lateralia adfigens; parte superiore hrevi libera, apice card lateraliter 

 obtuse bilobatd. Anthera opercnlaris^ conica, obtusUy ope Jili hrevmimi 

 postice adfixa, decidtia, Ulocularis. Pollen pulvereum, fiavum^ inclusum 

 rnembranuld subtilissimd^ divisd in massas duas oblongaSy suko longitudinali 

 not ataSy facile bipartibiles. — Wallich MSS. 



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For the foregoing valuable description of this rare 

 plant we are obliged to our friend Dr. Wallich, by whom 

 it was brought from India in 1828, and deposited in the 

 Garden of the Horticultural Society, by permission of the 

 Honourable Court of Directors of the East India Company. 



Dr. Wallich adds : " This fine species is a native of 

 most of the mountains in Nipal, where it blossoms during 

 the rainy season. I have also received it from the late 

 Mr. Smith, whose people found it on the mountains 

 bordering on the district of Sylhet. It thrives well at 

 the Honourable Company's Botanic Garden at Calcutta, 

 into which it has been introduced from these countries." 



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Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- 

 tural Society in May last. It grows pretty well in decayed 

 vegetable mould, among moss, in the stove. 



An epiphyte, usually hanging down. Root formed of 

 many cylindrical, fleshy, fasciculated fibres. Stems nu- 

 merous, slender, furrowed, flexuose, 6 inches, a foot, 

 or even two feet long, covered with copious, chafF-like, *f 

 dark, decumbent, separable hairs, but becoming nearly 

 smooth when old. Leaves alternate, spreading bifariously, 

 thrice as long as the intervals, linear-lanceolate, tapering 

 outwards, very obliquely 2-toothed at the apex ; the teeth 

 narrow, obtuse, unequal ; at the base rather acute, sessile, 

 with very short sheaths, 3 or 4 inches long, smooth, 

 obsoletely 3-nerved, striated, nearly flat. Flowers large, 

 white, 2 inches long, scentless, smooth, terminal, or soine- 

 times lateral, on leafless stems, placed on a fleshy, cylin* 

 drical, hairy peduncle, measuring, with the oblong cla- 

 vate ovarium, about 2 inches. Bractece 2, lanceolate, 

 acute, keeled, rather hairy, half a nail long, at the base 

 of the peduncle. Sepals erect, spreading, lanceolate, 

 acute, somewhat keeled ; the lateral ones adnate to the 

 column, very much dilated downwards, and, together with 



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