1485 





AERIDES* cornutum. 



Horn-flowered Air-plant. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA 



Nat. ord. Orciiidea Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of 



Botany , p. 262.) 



$ Vandece Lindley. 



AERIDES.— Suprd 9 vol. 3.fol. 220. 



A. cornutum ; foliis coriaceis apice obtusis obliquis, racemis pendulis multi- 

 floris foliis longioribus, labelli cucullati infundibularis laciniis lateralibus 

 erectis cuneatis rotundatis : intermedia ovata acuta inflexa : calcare 



mcurvo. 



A. cornutum. Roxb. hort. beng. p. 63. 



Caulis ramosus, crassus, Icete viridis, radices longas aereas tortuosas 

 emittens. Folia coriacea, 6-7 uncias longa, apice obliqua, obtusa, Icete viridia 9 

 subdisticha. Bractese ovatce, rigidce. Flores carnei,fragrantissimi. Sepala 

 patentia; inferiora ovata, latd basi columnce pedi adnata, supremum ovatum, 

 basi paululkm angustatum, obtusum. Petala sepalo superiori subconformia, 

 patentia. Labellum infundibuliforme, cum pede columnce articulatum, 

 3-lobum, laciniis conniventibus : lateralibus erectis, cuneatis, rotundatis, in- 

 termedid lineari-lanceolatd ; calcaratum, calcare conico, incurvo, apice viridi. 

 Columna brevis, basi valdh producta, canaliculata , intra lacinias labelli 

 abscondita. Clinandrium rostratum, acutum, ad caudiculam subulatam pol- 

 linis recipiendam. Anthera ovata, rostrata, basi biloculans. Massee pol- 

 linis duce, globosce, intus sulcatce ; gland ula obovata. 



This most lovely plant was originally obtained by 

 Dr. Roxburgh from Dacca, and must have been sent many 

 years since to the Garden at Kew ; for a blossom of it was 

 brought to us on the 8th of July, 1822, at which time it 

 was flowering in great beauty. 



Subsequently Dr. Wallich obtained it from Noakote, 



* So called from the power that this, like many other Orchideous genera, 



possesses 



absorbent 



