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SPATHOGLOTTIS Fortuni. 
Mr. Fortune’s Spathoglottis. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Oncuipaces. $ EriDENDREE— BrETID E. 
SPATHOGLOTTIS, Blume. | Perianthium subregulare, nec galeatum. 
Sepala patentia, libera, æqualia. Petala pauld latiora magisque membra- 
nacea, patentia v. conniventia. Labellum cum basi columnæ articulatum, 
nunc saccatum, tripartitum, lacinià intermedià unguiculatà basi tuberculatà 
v. cristata ssepius utrinque unidentatá. Columna alata v. petaloidea. An- 
thera bilocularis. Pollinia 8. —— Herbe Asiatice, terrestres, cormis sub- 
terraneis, foliis ensiformibus plicatis. Flores nunc lutei nunc violacei. 
Sp. Fortuni ; foliis. binis lanceolato-linearibus scapo pubescente brevioribus, 
racemo secundo pubescente, bracteis aeuminatis ovario duplo brevioribus, 
sepalis ovatis obtusis, petalis oblongis subsessilibus latioribus, labelli 
laciniis lateralibus oblongis erectis intermedia cuneatá emarginatä, ungue 
utrinque dente aucto, lamellis tribus basi villosis carnosis subdentatis 
lateralibus truncatis intermedià ad apicem fere procurrente, columnä 
oblongä apice dentieulatä, polliniis inæqualibus omnibus acutis. 
One of the first plants which Mr. Fortune met with on the 
granitic mountains of Hong Kong, was the pretty little 
Bletia-like plant figured in this plate. From some corms of 
it, which he sent home in his first despatch, the specimen 
sprang up of which the annexed drawing was made in the 
Garden of the Horticultural Society in January last. 
Like the Bletias it has thin plaited leaves, and fleshy 
tubers, or corms, which lie dormant for some months after 
the foliage has disappeared. The genus, indeed, differs 
from Bletia principally in having the middle lobe of the lip 
stalked, with some deep plates at its base, and in its anther 
having but two cells instead of eight. 
It appears that there are three species of this genus very 
much alike in their general appearance and yellow flowers ; 
the only one of which hitherto published has been S. pubescens, 
found by Dr. Wallich on the Sylhet mountains, at Prome, and 
on the Avan mountain called Tong Dong. This plant differs 
from the present in having much smaller bracts, and perhaps 
larger leaves, and especially in the form of its lip, which 
wants the pair of teeth at the bottom of its middle segment; 
its pollen-masses too appear, from my memoranda, to be 
bluntly cuneate and not acute. Another species I owe to 
Mr. Griffith’s Khasiyan collections. This has very small 
narrow grassy leaves, acute sepals, flowers on much longer 
stalks, and a lip without either hairs, teeth, or tubercles at 
