ANIA bicornis.. 
Two-horned Ania. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. OncnipAckxX. $ EPIDENDREZA. 
ANIA.. Lindl. gen. $ sp. Orch. p. 129. 
A. bicornis (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842. mise. 31.) ; folio oblongo-lanceolato 
carnoso scapo breviore, labelli lobo medio emarginato apiculato ecalca- 
rato basi bilamellato lamellà alterà versus apicem interjectà, antherä 
bicorni. 
Labellum cum basi producta column articulatum. Anthera 2-locularis. 
To the Rev. J. Clowes, of Broughton Hall, we are in- 
debted for a specimen of this terrestrial Orchidacea, which he 
received from Ceylon, and flowered in March 1842. 
It belongs to a little group of the Epidendreous section, 
of which Bletia is the type, and is nearly allied to A. latifolia, 
a Sylhet plant, at present known only from dried specimens ; 
from that it differs in having much smaller flowers and 
leaves, an entirely different labellum, and a 2-celled anther ; 
that of A. latifolia being 8-celled. In the latter circumstance, 
indeed, it correspends with the neighbouring genus Cytheris, 
whose distinctive character is therefore not to be taken from 
the cells of the anthers, but from its resupinate flowers, and 
truly calcarate labellum. In Ania the labellum, if it appears 
to have a spur, as in A. angustifolia, owes that appearance to 
the extension of the foot of the column. 
Fig. 1 is a view of the lip of this plant; 2 shews the 
column, with its lengthened foot and. two-horned anther; 
3 gives the appearance of the pollen-masses. 
At first sight this plant, when in flower, resembles a 
starved specimen of Eulophia macrostachya. 
