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ANIA bicornis. 

 Two-horned Ania. 



GYiVANDRIA MONANDBIA. 

 Nat. ord. Orchidace^. § Epidendre.e. 

 ANIA. Lindl. gen. ^ sp. Orch. p. 129. 



A. bicornis (Lindl. in Bot- Reg. 1842. misc. 31.) ; folio oblongo-lanceolato 

 carnoso scapo breviore, labclli lobo medio emarginato apiculato ecalca- 

 rato basi bilamcllato lamella altera versus apicem interjecta, antliera 

 bicorni. 



Labellum cum basi producta colmnnce articulatum. Antliera 2-locidaris. 



To the Rev. J, Clowes, of Broug-hton Hall, we are in- 

 debted for a specimen of this terrestrial Orchidacea, which he 

 received from Ceylon, and flowered in March 1842. 



It belongs to a little group of the Epidendreous section, 

 of which Bletia is the type, and is nearly allied to A. latifoiiat 

 a Sylhet plant, at present known only from dried specimens ; 

 from that it diff'ers in having much smaller flowers and 

 leaves, an entirely different labellum, and a ^-celled anther ; 

 that of A. latifolia being 8-celled. In the latter circumstance, 

 indeed, it corresponds with the neighbouring genus Cytheris, 

 whose distinctive character is therefore not to be taken from 

 the cells of the anthers, but from its resnpinate flowers, and 

 truly calcarate labellum. In Ania the labellum, if it appears 

 to have a spur, as in A. angustifolia, owes that appearance to 

 the extension of the foot of the column. 



Fig. 1 is a view of the lip of this plant ; 2 shews the 

 column, with its lengthened foot and two-horned anther ; 

 3 gives the appearance of the pollen-masses. 



At first sight this plant, when in flower, resembles a 

 starved specimen of Eulophia macrostachya. 



