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154. A speciosa, Blume. (Cymbidium speciosum, Hb. Reinwardt.) 

 Java, Lobb (217) ; Goorgong, Assam, Griffith ; common in rocky places 



in wet situations on Mt. Ophir, at the height of 2500 feet, where it is 

 called Paddam Bhattoo, Id. 



This is principally distinguished from A. hamlmifolia bj the 

 terminal lobes of its lip being parallel and overlapping each other, 

 while in A. bambusifolia they divaricate. A. affinis has smaller 

 flowers and narrower petals. A. densa is much more distinct, its 

 flowers being closely arranged, and the middle lobe of the lip 

 almost obsolete. 



Nephelaphtllum, Blume. 



155. N. cordifolium. (Cytheris cordifolia, Lindl. Gen. 8f Sp. p. 128.) 

 Khasija, at 4000 feet, J. D. H. (147). 



" Flowers pale green, striped with pale purple ; lip pale purple." 

 J. B. H. These specimens are much larger than "WaUich's from 

 Silhet. The plant appears to spread and creep among moss, through 

 which the leaves and flowering stem arise. In N. tenuiflorvm^ Bl., 

 which resembles this, the flowers are much smaller as weU as more 

 numerous, and the leaves are frequently almost truncate at the base. 

 iV.^wZcAr«^w,Bl., which is the Limodorum maculatum of Eeinwardt's 

 unpublished drawings, is much dwarfer, the scape not being longer 

 than the leaves, which are purple beneath, clouded with varying 

 tints of green on the upper side, and in form oval-acuminate ; the 

 flowers are straw-coloured with a purple spur and a yellow crest 

 in the middle of an undivided lip. The genus certainly belongs 

 to Epidendrece, in the neighbourhood of Bletia. 



EiJLOPHiA, B. Br. 



156. E. bracteosa, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. No. 7366. (E. grandiflora. Id. 

 Gen. 8f Sp. p. 181.) 



Khasija, at 2000 feet, J. D. H. Sf T. T. (222). 



Further examination has satisfied me that there is no difference 

 between the above two supposed species. I even doubt whether 

 there has not been some error in making B. grandiflora a native 

 of Ceylon. 



157. E. graminea, Lindl. 1. c. No. 13. 



Malacca, Cuming ; Burma, at Amherst, in woods near the sea, Griffith; 

 plains of Behar, J. D. H. ^ T. T. (221). 



This must no longer be regarded as a Malay plant, the spe- 

 cimens from Behar difl'ering in nothing except the flowers being 

 rather smaller, with the lip less deeply 3-lobed. 



