Nepal; h 



ved it from his collectors, who 



from the Cachar mountains on the frontier of Sylh 



The drawing was made in June 1837, in the collection of 

 Messrs. Loddiges. 



When this genus was placed in the Genera and Species 

 of Orchidaceous plants, I had only examined a young dried 

 bud, and I had been led to suppose it a member of the section 

 called Vandese, but the recent plant shows that it In fact 



belong 



Epidendreag, and that 



must be placed, along 



th Acanthophippium in the neighbourhood of Phaius and 



Bletia 



4 



Fig. 1. represents the petals and labellum after the calyx 



has been cut away ; 2. is the column seen in half-front, with 



the lacerated erect margin of the anther-bed (clinandrium) ; 



3. shews the pollen-masses adhering to a shapeless granular 

 disk. ^ *= 



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