ARETHUSEJE. 415 
Hab. in Bengalia; inter-gramina Aprili florens tempestate arid et fervidà, 
Roxburgh. 
Flowers large, drooping ; the sepals and petals unilateral, linear-lan- 
ceolate, spreading, pale green; the lip with purple veins and spots upon 
a pale greenish yellow ground. Bracts ensiform, as long as the peduncle 
and ovary taken together. Roxburgh. 
8. Pocou1a plicata. 
P.folio subrotundo-cordato plicato piloso discolori multinervi, scapo 
2-3-floro, labello convoluto bilobo. 
Epipactis plicata. Roxb. fl. ind. 3. 454. 
Hab. in Bengalia; prope Calcuttam sub Bambusarum umbrà opacá, 
Maio Junio florens, Roxburgh. 
Leaves ferruginous on the surface, greener underneath, on both sides 
clothed with short distinct white bristles. Scape generally bearing on its 
apex 2 large flowers, embraced by 2 or 3 sheathing scales. Flowers yel- 
lowish green with a rose coloured lip. Sepals and petals equal, lan- 
ceolate, ** three suberect and two below. Lip subcylindric, the margins 
towards the base, where broadest, being incurved into a tube which con- 
nects the column of fructification ; lamina 2-lobed." 
Such is an abstract of Roxburgh's account, who adds that the plant is 
propagated by suckers from the apex of the petiole, just below the leaf, and 
under the surface of the soil. 
9. Poona flabelliformis. Lindl. in Wall. Cat. no. 7400. 
P. folio cordato-subrotundo repando membranaceo glabro multinervi, 
scapo multifloro racemoso, floribus demüm pendulis, labelli trilobi lobis 
lateralibus nanis intermedio oblongo obtuso undulato-crispo piloso. 
Nervilia Aragoana. Gaudich, in it. Freyc. t. 35. p. 422. 
Hab. in Napalia, Wallich, ad Sukanagar, Junio, Hamilton ; necnon in 
insulis Mariannis, Guam, ad terram, vernac. Maissa houlou, Gaudichaud. 
(hab. s. sp.) 
Flowers numerous, pendulous, about 4 inch long, apparently white, 
at first erect, afterwards pendulous. Sepals and petals linear-lanceolate, 
nearly equal, longer than the labellum. 
10. Poconta ? ovata. 
P. * fibrosa, caulibus simplicibus articulatis foliatis erectis bracteisque 
pubescentibus, foliis ovato-oblongis acutis membranaceis, floribus coéta- 
neis." 
Nervilia? ovata. Gaudich. l. c. 
In insulis Mariannis, Rota, in rupibus, Gaudichaud. 
An Apaturiz species ? 
Ap e e rerit 
CCXXXIII. LEPTOCERAS. 
Leptoceras, Caladenie $. R. Rrown Prodr.325. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. Append. no. 244. 
dulosum. Sepala membranacea, supremum 
P . > . . ] ) 
Se eee a deflexa. Petala duplo longiora 
fornicatum, lateralia minora aut aequali 
