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RENANTIIERA matutina. 



Morning Renanthera. 



GYNANDRIA MONANBRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orchidace.e. § Vande^ — Sarcanthid.^. 

 RENANTHERA. Bot. Reg. vol. 14. ^ 1131. 



R. matutina (Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 218. Aerides matutina ? Blume 

 Bijdr. 1. 366. tab. 24.); racemis densis cylindraceis longipedunculatis 

 paniculatis simplicibusque, sepalis petalisque obovato-linearibus obtusis, 

 labelli limbo ovato acuto calcari obtuso subaequali. 



i\lthough this plant bears no comparison with the magni- 

 ficent Chinese species on which the genus was founded, yet it is 

 very far from being unworthy of cultivation. Indeed, by the 

 number of its flowers and the richness, though not brilliancy, 

 of their spots, it makes up in some measure for their want of 



size. 



The first mention that is made of it is in Blume's Bij- 

 dragen, where it is referred with doubt to the genus Aerides, 

 and said to be found in flower in the month of September, on 

 trees at the foot of Mount Salak, in Java. Mr. Cuming 

 afterwards gathered it in the Philippines, but by no means in 

 so luxuriant a state as the specimen now represented, which 

 flowered at Chatsworth in December last, and was kindly 

 placed at our disposal by His Grace the Duke of Devonshire. 

 We have also received it from Messrs. Rollissons. 



Fig. 1 . represents the lip ; and 2. the pollen apparatus of 

 this plant. 



