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Tills specie* is very nearly allied lo Obcronia antbropophora, which is also o Burmwo plant. 

 Thai specie* is caulescent. QOt stctulcss. has no tubercle at ihe base of lis lip, lias the middle lobes of 

 that organ more seiaccous, and the lateral lobes broad, short, and half ovate; the spike i* evanescent 

 at the point, iiml finally the bract* arc not so long as tba flowers. 



A. represent* this plant of its namrnl size. A I. is a highly magnified view of n portion of the 

 spike, with half ftdozen flower* adhering to it. at a part whore ihey are not veriicillnte. A 2, represents 

 the column very highly magnified, with the BtignUUW gland in fronl, and the unther. which is crested, 

 lying quietly nl iU back. A 3. i- a profile of a flower, shewing the long bristle-pointcd bract, the 

 column with the anther raised up. mid the great goitre at the neck of the labclhim. A 4, .hews the 

 front of a full-Mown flower from which (lie Inbclhira has been cut off; the anther rai.e.1 up. the 

 pollen.masses lying below it. and the stigmatic gland withered up. A 5. represent* the two pairs 

 of | u die 1 1 •masses. 



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OBERONIA GRIFFITHIANA 



O. Griffifhiana; stibcnulewens, foliis Iracaribus stihfnlcatia apiculntis, spicA Subvcrli- 

 cillatu opice cvancscentc, brocteis ovato-lnnccolntis semilatis tlonmi longitudinc, 

 sepnlis ovnlis ncutia, pclalis obovatis obtusis laceris glaadulosis, labello cordate 

 basi saccate npicc bipartite utrinqnc multifido margine scabro, columns' antko 



excavata. 



This singular plant want* altogether the brilliant colouring of the last, bul lis form is not less 

 extraordinary. Figures B :( mid -1. represent this so perfectly that 1 may safely leave the imagination 

 ..f the reader to discover with what it can be most justly compared. 



The HABIT of Oberonia Grilliihiana is very much that of die last species, bnt (be Mem is more 

 evident. The nrrangement of the rumen* is also the same. The dbaOTS are ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, minutely toothed at the edge, and not longer than tbeflower. TIiOBEPAl* arolikothOM 

 of O. mfilabris. bin more dingy. The PETAL* an: » dull greenish brown, obtuse, as long as the 

 sepals, and not only torn at ihe margin into a number of coarse divisions, but covered with fleshy 

 h;,ii> which give them the appearance of K>me shaggy ear. Tho i,.uiKLl.UM is of the same colour a» 

 the petal-, ne.pl llial it has more purple at the base, its edge and surface lire rough, with Utile 

 raised papilla), and it is deeply divided into a number of linger-like lobes, of which the two 

 eeniml ones are the latgest. and then- are about five smaller ones gradually diminishing lo the base on 

 each side. The front of the COLUMN is singularly ewnvaled into a aortofcup.willi Ihe anterior edge 

 of which ihe labellum i- joine.1. Th.- (ndlm-masses in this and some other species has been 

 determined by -Mr. (irifliih to be four, and incumbent, thus % %. 



Kg. H. ivj.rr- -tils lliit species of (he natural sue. 11 1 , is u young tlower-bnd about to expand. 

 It 2, is UK same in n more advanced slate, with the hibelliuii just beginning to unfold, two of it. lobes 

 standing in front of tin- other parta like a pair of horns. It. land 4, are highly magnified viowBOf 



