Tas. 4492. 
ACANTHOPHIPPIUM Javanicum. 
Javanese Acanthophippium. 
Nat. Ord. OrncHIDEZ.—GYNANDRIA MONANDPRIA. 
Gen. Char. Perianthium ventricosum. Sepala agglutinata, lateralia ungui 
columns adnata, dorsale cum petalis spathulatis fornicato. Ladellum ungui- 
culatum, cum basi longe producta columne articulatum, limbo trilobo indiviso 
complicato, disco lamellato. Anthera carnosa, bilocularis. Pollinia 8, ineequalia, 
sessilia,—Herbee terrestres, subcaulescentes. Caulis inferne bulbosus, vaginatus. 
Folia oblongo-lanceolata, plicata. Pedunculus vaginatus, pauciflorus. Flores 
speciosi. Lindl. 
ACANTHOPHIPPIUM Javanicum ; petalis triangularibus, labelli trilobi lobis late- 
ralibus truneatis intermedio medio constructo apice ovato tuberculato basi 
utringue carnoso dentibus truncatis emarginatis inflexis. Lind!. 
AcanTHopuiprrum Javanicum. “Bl. Bijdr. 353. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. 
p.177. Bot. Reg. 1847. t. 47. 
A genus (the origin of whose name is unexplained) estab- 
lished by Blume upon a Java plant, detected in the woods 
of the mountain: of Salak in Java. Introduced, we believe, by 
Messrs. Loddiges, before 1844, Some years previously, another 
species of the genus was sent from Ceylon, the A. dicolor 
of Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t.1730. 'The present species is much 
the handsomest of the two, with larger flowers, beautifully veined 
with purplish-red and yellow, and altogether a very striking 
plant. It flowered at Kew very finely in July 1849. 
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs elongated, cylindrical, jointed, when 
young clothed with large furrowed scales, and terminated by 
two or three ovato-lanceolate, rather membranaceous, striated 
leaves. From the base of the pseudo-bulb the short, thick, 
bracteated scape rises, shorter than the rest of the plant, and 
bearing about six or eight large handsome flowers, of a yellow 
colour, tinged and streaked with purplish-red. The pefa/s and 
sepals are somewhat triangular-ovate, so placed that the entire 
flower is somewhat pitcher-shaped, with a remarkably oblique 
or gibbous base. Zip quite enclosed within this, lying up against 
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