25 







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mm \J 



25. VAN DA cnstata. 



Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 216. 



This has flowered with Messrs. Rollissons of Tooting ; not 

 however very perfectly— for the flowers are greenish instead of 

 being nearly white, and they are solitary instead of being 

 on 3-flowered peduncles. It is a pretty species, from the 

 warm vallies of Nepal. The sepals and petals were greenish, 

 the lip yellow, striped with rich purple asperities and furrows ; 

 at the point it is divided into two acuminate lobes. 



26. ARUNDINA densa. 



A. densa ; labello obovato-subrotundo quadrilobo apiculato laciniis rotundatw, 

 lamellis 3 subsequalibus crispatis rectis, petahs oblongis, folns sub- 



sequalibus . 



A beautiful Orchidaceous plant from Sincapore, sent to 

 Messrs. Loddiges by Cuming. It has flowers as large as those 

 of A. bambusifolia, rosy violet, with a crimson-bordered lip, 

 sweet-scented and very handsome, forming a close head, and 



ong 



27. ERIA mu 



2Sfc«SSta^Ew** ii "" rum intermpdia in mucrone 



libero abit lateralibus abbreviate. 



An Orchidaceous plant, with the habit of Dendrobium 

 chrysanthum, found at Sincapore by Cuming, has just 

 flowered with Messrs. Loddiges. Its leaves are long, fleshy 

 now „ ;„„.. flp(>n ffreen . The flowers are white, with a 



tot SrfyTdS-ly sweet like violets and pro- 

 d uced "n|ly opposite the leaves, on stalks about half \m . mch 

 lonsr covered with dull red spreading bracts. The lip is 

 nearly round, 3-lobed, with the middle segment ™*W»*i 

 foito middle it has three membranous plates the lateral of 

 which are very short, the intermediate extended fatoljM 

 horn which runs np from the surface of the lip a little below 

 i,° apex On the foot of the column, just beyond the joint of 



