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Alpina. , MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 69 - 
7. A. calearata, Roscoe in Trans. of Linn, Soe. 8. 347. 
Leaves linear-lanceolar, polished, Spike compound, erect. 
Lip ovate-oblong, apex curled, and bifid, 5 
Renealmia ‘calcarata, Andr. Bot. Repos, 6. t. 421: 
A native of China, and from thence introduced by Captain 
J. Garnault, into the Botanic garden near Calcutta in 1799 ; 
where it thrives Juxuriantly in the common soil of the gar- 
den, and blossoms in March, April, and May, but more or. | 
less all the year. . 
Root perennial, pecibiotsl, somewhat woolly, crooked, - 
pale-coloured, stoloniferous, fragrant, enveloped while young 
in short, alternate sheaths; when old marked with their ci- 
catrices; and furnished with many fleshy ramous fibres. - 
Stems oblique, smooth, from two to four feet high, Leaves” 
alternate, bifarious, short-petioled on their sheaths, narrow 
lanceolar, fine-pointed, entire, smooth on both sides ; length 
frequently twelve inches, and the breadth from one to two. 
Sheaths of the leayes stem-clasping, smooth, with a stipulary 
process projecting above the insertion of the leaf. Racemes _ 
terminal, solitary, erect, compound, lowers numerous, | 
large, generally in pairs or more, but expanding at different 
periods. Braetes solitary, boat-shaped, white, one-flowered. 
Perianth superior, three-toothed, white, smooth. Corol with 
double border. Exterior three-cleft ; divisions equal, linear, 
expanding, pellucid, white. Interior, or lip ovate-oblong, 
large, deeply coloured with dark purple veins on a yellow 
ground, apex two-lobed, lobes rounded and curled ; there are 
no lateral Jobes in this species, nor are the sides much incurv- 
ed; but two, incurved, sharp, subulate horns project from its 
two posterior angles, and embrace the base of the filament. 
Filament single, opposite to the lip of the corol, projecting, 
_ Ke. as in the genus. Germ spherical, hairy, three-celled, with 
"many ovula in meus testy teednoee mati Sets 
