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CRYPTOPUS ELATUS. 
Cryptopus elatus. (Tas. CX V.) Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub t. 
817.—Beclardia elata. Rich. Monogr. des Orchid. des Isles 
de France et de Bourb. p. 78. t. 11. f. 8.—Angrecum ela- 
tum. Thouars, Orchid. t. 79, 80. 
Has. The Islands of Mauritius and Bourbon. 
Caulis, ut videtur, erectus, elongatus, simplex, crassitie pen- 
næ cygnei, subuncialis, hic illic fibris elongatis, rigidis, 
flexuosis, simplicibus instructus. Folia disticha, coriacea, 
brevia, 2 uncias longa, 6 lineas lata, basi vaginantia, apice 
oblique emarginata. Pedunculus sepe bipedalis, erectus, 
teres, apice recemoso-subpaniculatis: Flores laxi, remoti, 
majusculi.Bractec ad basin pedicellorum nigro-fusce, mem- 
branaceze, amplectantes, obtusissime. Sepala patentia, de- 
mum reflexa, omnia unguiculata: 3 ezteriora spathulata, ob- 
tusa; 2 interioralaminalata, 3-loba:lobis lateralibus lanceo- 
latis, acutis, subrecurvis, intermedio fereobcordata, cum mu- 
crone. Labellum superum, sepalis paulo brevius, 4-lobum, 
apice mucronatum; lobis inferioribus minoribus falcato- 
recurvis, superioribus plusquam duplo majoribus, horizon- 
taliter patentibus, lineari-oblongis, rectis, apice obtusis bifi- 
dis; segmentis valde obtusis. Calcar e basi dilatata sac- 
cata longissime attenuatum, curvatum. Germen gracile, 
rectum, in petiolum vix angustiorem attenuatum. Co- 
lumna brevis, antice utrinque superne dente ovato vel lobo 
dilatata. Clinandrium planum, antice 3-dentatum, in sinu- 
bus dentium, glandula (pollinis?) magna, cupuliformis, viri- 
dis, in caudam latam dense pilosam attenuata, subtus lamel- 
lifera. Stigma quadratum, depressum. Anthera subbi- 
loba hemispheerica, antice bifida, unilocularis, primum mem- 
brana (demum erumpente) tecta. Masse pollinis 2, obo- 
vato-subrotundze, nigrescentes, semibilobze. 
Frequently in my endeavours to illustrate the Orchi- 
deous plants, I find myself obliged, however reluctantly, to 
differ from those eminent botanists who have made this tribe 
