Tas. 5056. 
OBERONIA acauvtis. 
Stemless Oberonia. 
Nat. Ord. OrncHr1pDEZ.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
' Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4517.) 
OBERONIA acaiilis ; curvato-dependens, foliis ensiformibus e basi sensim Jonge 
acuminatis, racemo elongato multifloro, floribus compactis subverticillatis, 
sepalis petalisque subspiraliter patenti-reflexis, labello 4-lobo margine fim- o7 
briato facie superiore pilis sparsis villosis, lobis obtusis duobus terminalibus a 
majoribus, disco canaliculato. 
OBERONIA acaulis. Griff. in Notule ad Plantas Asiat. pars 3. p. 215; Itin. 
Notes, p. 16; Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 286. 0. 1. 
The genus Oderonia will prove a very extensive one In species, 
though comparatively few are as yet accurately described. Dr. 
Lindley has kindly referred us to the Oberoma acaulis, Grif, 
for the present species. It is rudely figured by Griffith, 1-c., 
and the dissections are still more rude; but the identity of the 
two is confirmed by an original specimen in Dr. Lindley’s her- 
barium. It is a native of Churra, in Khasya, Eastern Bengal, 
and is one of the many interesting Orchideous plants the intro- 
duction of which to our gardens we owe to Mr. Simons. It 
flowered with us in February of the present year. Be 
‘Duscr. The habit of this plant is very peculiar. Cultivate 
on a small block of wood, and suspended from the roof of the 
Orchideous house, it takes a downward curvature, sO that the 
leaves and orange-coloured raceme are strongly curvato-pendent. 
Leaves stemless, few, the longest of them a foot long, eee 
falcately recurved, gradually tapering from the base into * ihe 
acumen, scarcely an inch broad in the widest part ; their ewe a 
equitant, in colour glaucous-green. Peduncle three to nee m7 i. 
long, rather stout, terminal. Raceme long, cylindrical, alt a : 
equal in length to the leaves, with very numerous same oor io 
(but not bright) fowers, compact, but much less so and by no — 
JUNE lst, 1858. 
