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* ACANTHOPHIPPIUM bicolor. 



Two-coloured Barrel- Orchis. 



GYNANDRIA MONANBRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orchide^ § Vande^. LindL {Introduction to the Natural 

 Systevi of Botany, p. 262.) 



ACANTHOPHIPPIUM. Blume. Perianthium ventricosum. Sepala 

 agglutlnata, lateralia ungui columns adnata, dorsale cum petalis spatulatis fonii- 

 cato. Labellum uuguiculatum, cum basi longe producta columns articulatum, 

 limbo trilobo indiviso complicato, disco lamellato. Anthera carnosa, bilocularis. 



PoUinia 8, inaqualia, sessilia. Herba terrestris, subcaulescens. Caulis 



inferne bulbosus, vaginatus. Folia, oblonc/o-lanceolata, plicuta. Pedunculus 

 vaginatus paucifiorus. Flores speciosi. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. 177. 



A. bicolor ; petalis oblongo-lanceolatis acutiusculis, labelli lobis lateralibus 

 rotundatis, perianthio ovato. 



Planta terrestris ; pseudobulbis oblongo-ovatis, corrugatis, atroviridibus, 

 reliquiis foliorum vestitis, pauLo in collum angustatis. Folia 2-3, oiZon«o- 

 lanceolata, utrinqne acuta, plicata, erecta, basi angustata, sed petiolo nullo. 

 Pedunculus radicalis ; squamis ovatis, concavis, brunneis, magnis, vaginatus, 

 1-4-Jiorus. Perianthium carnosum, iijiciam et dimidiam longurn, ovatiim, vel 

 subconicum, Jlavum, apice patulum sanguineutn. Sepala omnia conglntinata, 

 oblonga, obtusa, lateralia basiobli(jua, basi longc producta: columncB inserta. 

 Petala cequilonga, apice minus macidata, lineari-oblonga, acuta. Labellum 

 cum pede longd columnce unguem efficiente articulatum, injlexum, complica- 

 tum, trilobum ; lobis lateralibus rotundatis intermedia magis luted et carno- 

 sa, usperiusculd ; lameUis disci 2 tantum, concavis, lined elevatd sejunctis. 

 Columna semiteres, acuta ; stigmate marginato ; clinandrio immarginato pro- 

 clivi. PoUinia 8, geminata, in glandulani antice emarginatam sessilia. 



A highly curious and extremely rare epiphyte, found in 

 Ceylon by Mr. Watson, the Superintendant of the Govern- 

 ment Garden at Peradenia, and transmitted by him to the 

 Horticultural Society. It has very much the habit of a Geo- 

 doriim, only it has pseudo-bulbs, instead of tubers. 



* A name, the meaning of which is not explained by its author, Dr. Blume. 



