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476 GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Aerides. 
ers: A native of Silhet, where it grows on trees and flowers 
during the hot season. 
7. A. ampullaceum. R. 
Parasitic, caulescent. Leaves bifariously imbricated, linear, 
emarginate. Racemes axillary, short. Petals oval, nearly 
equal; Ap with a long, flagon-shaped bag, and linguiform 
lamina, 
Found by Mr. M. R. Smith growing on trees in the forests, 
in blossom in May. 
Stems short and generally simple, from the lower part 
throwing out the fleshy, strong, radical cords, by which they 
are bound to the parent tree; they are only a few inches long, 
decaying at the base, as they shoot from the apex. Leaves 
sheathing bifariously, imbricated, linear, hard and glossy, ob- 
liquely emarginate, about six inches long. Racemes axilla- 
ry, scarcely one third the length of the leaves, erect ; rachis 
withering and remaining. lowers numerous, small, rosy. 
Petals nearly equal, oval, and spreading. Lip with a sac, 
or bag, pendulous, and twice as long as the petals; lamina 
short; linguiform. Column short. Pollen masses two and 
globular. Capsules clavate, six-ribbed. 
8. A. radiatum. R. 
Parasitic. Stems bulbiform, with a single lanceolar leaf 
from the apex of each. Scape umbelliferous, the lower two 
petals very long and faleate. Lip conical,recurved, cellular. 
Found by Dr. W. Carey indigenous on trees in the Delta 
of the Ganges, where it blossoms about the beginning of the 
rains, 
Root of many, hard, slender fibres. Stems no other than 
the little remote round bulbs, which are connected by a — 
slender shoot of about an inch in length. Leaf’ a single one 
from the apex of each bulb, lanceolar, somewhat channelled, 
fleshy and smooth, from three to four inches long, and less 
than one broad. Scape from the base of the bulb, ionger — 
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