462° GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA, Cymbidium. 
greenish yellow, the three upper ones forming a vault over the 
column ; the lower two projecting into the margins of the lip, 
which is composed of an inner, oval, concave portion, joined 
to the lamina, or exterior reniform, cordate part; the whole is 
of a firm, fleshy texture, and longer than the petals; colour 
a dark purple, with a few yellow spots. Anihers deciduous ; 
pollen in two round yellow waxy balls. 
10. C. aphyllum. Swartz, See Willd. iv. 1009. 
Root fibrous. Stems simple, round, jointed, leafless. F'ow- 
ers lateral, sub-sessile ; lip with a convolute base, and sub-. 
orbicular, undivided, fringed lamina. 
Limodorum aphyllum. Corom, pl. i. N. 41. 
A rare plant, a native of dry rocky hills, I brought it into 
my garden, planted it in as dry and barren a spot as I could 
find, but with me it lived only till the first rains fell; how- — 
ever, it blossomed at the beginning of the hot season. 
Roots fibrous; adhering in a tuft to rocks, &c. -Stems per- 
ennial, several, simple, diffuse, or pendulous, as the situation 
admits, naked, round, jointed at every inch, at each joint a 
small membranaceous scale, without the least vestige of a 
leaf. Flowers sessile, unless the germ is called a peduncle, 
generally single, issuing from the joints of the stems, Lip or — 
nectary large, near the base the sides are incurved to formas 
it were, a tube; the exterior part six-parted ; margins curl-_ 
ed, waved, and ciliate ; of a pale sulphur colour. a 
11. C. tessallatum. Willd. iv. 102. é 
Parasitic, caulescent. | Leaves bifarious, equitant, linear, 
preemorse, dentate. Racemes axillary, few-flowered. Flow- 
ers bifarious. Lip with the sides incurved into a tube; 5 lami- 
na tapering, entire, acute. = 
Epidendrum tessellatum, Corom. ot: OS ee 
A very beautiful, perennial parasitic, found adhering to t the 
trunks and branches of trees, amongst we — mountains. 
It flowers during the wet season, ; “i 
