472 GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Aerides. 
bifarious, imbricated, sheathing, incurvate, linear, chan- 
nelled, thick, firm, and smooth; apex obliquely preemorse, 
from six to twelve inches long, by one broad, when laid flat. 
Racemes axillary, solitary, drooping, longer than the leaves. 
Flowers numerous, pedicelled, approximate, diverging, pret- 
ty large, colour a beautiful mixture of red and white, spot- 
ted. Bractes ovate-cordate, one-flowered, embracing the 
insertion of the pedicel. Corol, or calyx of Swartz, five-pe- 
talled, the upper three oblong, the middle or inferior one of 
these broader, the lower two semi-cordate. ‘Nectary, (label- 
lum, Swartz, ) longer than the petals, and more deeply colour- 
ed, ascending, concave, cuneiform, with the apex slightly 
three-lobed, behind protruded into a large, open, obtuse bag, 
or horn, Column of fructification short. Anthers or polli- 
niferous balls two, covered with a deciduous lid. . Germ in- 
ferior, three-sided. Stigma an oblong clammy opening in 
the middle of the inferior, flat side of the column. Capsule 
pedicelled, oblong, three-sided ; angles sharp, sides with a 
broad, flat keel, one-celled, three-valved. ‘ 
2. A. cornutum, 
Parasitic, ramose. Leaves bifarious, linear, retuse. Ra- 
cemes axillary, drooping. Lip with three-cleft lamina and 
hooked horn, rising forward and upwards. 
Found growing in trees in the vicinity of Dacca, and the 
eastern. pfeousit of patel, in flower in April, and cued 
Root of seveaah soy: thick, fleshy cords, by which they 
bind themselves firmly to the trees they grow on. Stems 
perennial, often divided, decaying at the base, as they shoot 
from the apex, invested in the sheaths of the leaves. Leaves 
equitant, bifarious, sheathing, linear, smooth, channelled, 
drooping, obliquely pramose or retuse ; from six to nine 
inches long, by from one to one and a balf broad; Racemes 
sub-axillary, solitary, ‘drooping, longer than the leaves. 
Flowers large, surrounding more than the exterior half of the 
