NEW OR RARE ORCHIDESR. 4T 
M. Richard includes in his genus Beclardia (our Cryptopus) 
the Epidendrum macrostachys, and E. brachystachyon of 
Thouars: but Mr. Lindley, I think, with more propriety, 
restricts it to our present species, which is a native, exclusively, 
of Mauritius and Bourbon, and parasitic on the trunks of trees. 
Tas. CXV.  Cryptopus elatus. Fig. 1, Flower, from 
which the sepals have been removed. Fig. 2, Column and 
anther. Fig. 3, Anther, separated from the clinandrium in a 
state of bud, showing the membrane which covers the pol- 
len-masses in that state. Fig. 4, Anther of a fully expanded 
flower, forced back from the clinandrium, carrying the pollen- 
masses with it, and leaving the glands attached to the sinuses 
of the clinandrium. Fig. 5, The pollen-masses. Fig. 6, 6, 
Glands of the pollen. Fig. 7, Single gland, showing its mode 
of attachment to the clinandrium :—magnified. 
ANGRAZCUM PECTINATUM; 
caule repente, ramis adscendentibus foliosis, foliis numerosis 
lineari-oblongis distichis approximatis carnosis obtusis, flo- 
ribus axillaribus solitariis subsessilibus, sepalis labelloque 
patentibus oblongis subaequalibus, cornu rectiusculo ovario 
breviore. (Tas. CX VI.) 
Angrecum pectinatum. Thouars, Orchid. des Isles Austr. d’ 
Afr.t.51. Rich. Monogr. des. Orchid. des Isles de Fr. et 
de Bourb. p. 68. t. 10. n. 5. —Aerobion pectinatum. Spreng. 
Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 717. 
Has. Mauritius and Bourbon. 
Parasiticum. Caulisrepens, radicans, gracilis. Ramiadscenden- 
tes, digitales vel subspitham:ei, e basi fere usque ad apicem 
foliosi, nonnunquam proliferi. Folia unciam vel sesquiun- 
ciam longa, disticha, approximata, patentia, lineari-oblonga. 
carnosa, crassa, obtusiuscula, facie anteriore sulcata, in- 
ferne vaginantia; vagina brevis, inflata, striata. Flores 
axillares, solitarii, subsessiles, ad basin bracteati; bractea 
acuminata, convoluta. Sepala subzequalia, oblonga, paten- 
tia, obtusa; 2 interiora paululum minora, striata; sextum 
