Aerides. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA, 471 
oles, which are about six inches more, from three to four 
inches broad. Scape as long as the petioles of the leaves, and 
embraced by a few flower-bearing sheaths; apex short and 
drooping as in L, recurvum. Flowers of a middling size, 
white. Bractes ensiform, Petals five, oblong, spreading, 
the exterior three rather narrower, of which the lower two are 
considerably faleate. Zip much larger than the petals, oval, 
emarginate ; cenire tinged with pink, with a swelling behind, 
but no ng Com short. Pollen masses two, sub-orbi- 
cular. Lid deciduous. 
: AERIDES. Swartz. : 
Corol five-petalled, spreading. ip calearate; lamina 
saccate, Anther a deciduous lid. 
1, A. guitatum. Roxb. 
Parasitic. Stem creeping. Leaves bifarious, imbricated, 
linear, channelled, obliquely preemorse. Racemes axillary, 
pendulous, Flowers pedicelled. Lamina entire, ascend- 
ing, oblong; sac wide, and obtuse ; capsule triangular. 
Beng. Perida Mura, : 
This lovely parasitica] species was found growing | on trees 
in the vicinity of Dacca by the Honourable Charles Andrew 
Bruce, who sent plants to the Botanic garden at Calcutta. 
Flowering time the hot and rainy seasons, it has a great re- 
semblance to the tablesin Rheed’s Hortus Malabaricus, quot- 
ed by Willdenow, for derides retusum and premorsum, but 
the capsule differs from both and I believe the horn and lip 
of the nectary also ; however they are certainly very nearly 
allied, and_ not fleriee in beauty, while in flower, to any of 
the whole order of Orchidea, _ 
Root of several, thick, fleshy, obtuse fibres, which issue 
from the stem, through the sheaths of the lower leaves, and 
adhere to the tree which gives support to the plant. Stem pe- 
rennial, creeping, invested in thesheaths of the leaves, Leaves 
