36 FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS. 
pendice circulari membranacea et dente ovato in laminam.—Dendro- 
bium bifarium, Wall, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 81.—Dendrobium 
emarginatum, Reinw. ic. ined. 
Tolerably abundant in ravines of Mount Gough, in August. 
It is uncertain whether there may not be more than one species 
among the plants I include under the present name, the specimens that 
have come under examination being generally destitute of flowers. 
"The definition given is made to suit the plant found by Major Cham- 
pion, the flowers of which I have insufficiently studied. , Major Cham- 
pion says they are pure white; Reinwardt’s artist represents them as 
large and stained with rose-colour, and his leaves resemble those of 
. the Philippine form. Rumphius’s Angraecum purpureum primum, Te- 
ferred here in the * Genera and Species,’ although an Appendicula, belongs 
to one of those with lateral inflorescence. Griffith’s Appendicula teres 
appears to be a Ceratostylis. Under the name of Appendicula stipulata, 
the editor of Griffith’s MSS. has made him give two totally different 
plants, and he says that one of them comes from Affghanistan ! a 
country in which no epiphyte is capable of existing. (Lindl.) 
. 20. Limatodes gracilis, Lindl.— Calanthe gracilis, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. 
Orch. p. 251.— Bot. Mag. t. 4714.— This is in no respect whatever dif- 
. ferent from the Khasiya and Sylhet plant. (Lindl.) 
On Victoria Peak, with Cypripedium, in December. The plant, not 
unlike Calanthe in general appearance, has a terrestrial stem, &wollen 
. at the base, and producing a new shoot next to it annually, from one to 
two feet high, having six or seven, distichous, broad, plaited, satiny, 
right green leaves, and upright racemes from one terete scape, shoot- 
ig from the stem a little above its base. The flowers, from ten to 
zhteen in the raceme, are very odorous at night, with a delicious per- 
an like Mignionette. Pedicels nearly an inch long, arranged spirally 
E the scape, somewhat twisted. Sepals yellow, all equal, linear- 
oblong or obovate, the three exterior forming an equilateral triangle. 
ur none. Column short, semicylindrical, terminating abruptly. An- 
ther-cup opercular ; pollen-masses 8, fastened by pairs to the roundish 
candicle. Labellum three times as long as the column, at first convex, 
with a lobe at each side, then produced flatly, lobed and crimped, 
white with yellow spots. (Champ.) 
E Glossaspis tentaculata, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 284.—Mar- 
gins of all the hills and marshes in Hongkong, throughout the, winter, 
