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AporuM ANCEPS. ‘T'wo-EDGED APoRUM. 
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Class and Order. 
GynanpriA Monanpria. 
( Nat, Ord.—OrcuineE&, ) 
Generic Character. 
Sepala carnosa erecta, lateralibus majoribus obliquis cum 
basi producta columne connatis. Petala sepalo supremo 
minora. Labellum cum pede columne articulatum, pos- 
ticum, indiyisum vy. trilobum: limbo cristato calloso v. 
nudo. Columna semiteres, basi longe producta. Anthera 
sessilis, bilocularis, nunc apice membranaceo. Pollinia 4, 
per paria collateralia—Herbe epiphyte, caulescentes. Folia 
disticha, equitantia, ancipitia, Flores subsolitarti, e paleis 
membranaceis erumpentes, septus herbacei coloris. Landl. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Aporum anceps; foliis scalpelliformibus carnosis acutis, 
floribus solitariis geminisve, sepalis carnosis : laterali- 
bus ovatis patentibus supremo petalisque multo majo- 
ribus, labello postico unguiculato ecalloso inappendi- 
culato cuneato emarginato crenulato, caulibus, com- 
pressis. Lindl. 
Arorum anceps. Lindl. in Wall. Cat. n. 2020. Gen. et 
Sp. Orchid. p. 71. 
Denprozium anceps. Swarts, Act. Holm. 1800. p. 26. 
Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1239. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. 
p. 738. 
A very remarkable plant : agreeing indeed with Denpro- 
BIuM in all that is essential, as concerns the fructification : 
but differing exceedingly, as Professor Linptey well ob- 
Serves, in the distichous, equitant leaves. Its native coun- 
try, we learn from the same author, is the estuaries of the 
rivers 
