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tundata apiculata carnosa lateralibus triangularibus acut.is 



breviore, columnse facie excavata semibiloculari. 



North of India. The stems grow nearly upright, and 



are rather short, fusiform and furrowed when old. The 

 flowers are a little smaller than those of Maxillaria stape- 

 lioides, and like them in form ; their colour is dull 

 yellow, spotted and streaked with purple. In the only 

 specimen I have ever seen the flowers grew in fours, on 

 a very short peduncle, closely covered with ovate concave 

 bracts, speckled with purple. The excavation of the 

 face of the column, and its division into two cells are 

 remarkable. 



56. D. elongatum (A. Cunn. Bot. Reg. 1839. misc. 33) ; cau- 

 libus teretibus sulcatis elongatis erectis 4-5-phyllis, foliis 

 ovato- lanceolatis acutiusculis apice obliquis emarginatis, 

 racemo terminali multifioro, foliolis perianihii ovatis ob- 

 tusiusculis, labelli disco 3-carinato lobo intermedio lato 



cordiformi. Shaded dark woods, on the hanks of the 



Brisbane River, New Holland, This plant has erect 



stems about a foot and a half high, at the end of which 

 grow about four lanceolate leaves, from the midst of 

 which springs a raceme of yellowish flowers spotted 

 with red. They seem unwilling or unable to expand. 



57. D. bicolor (L. no. yi) ; caulibus erectis elongatis sub- 

 clavatis apice foliosis, foliis lanceolatis acutis, racemo 

 brevi erecto terminali v. subterminali 3-4-floro foliis 

 multo breviore, bracteis oblongis obtusis petaloideis ve- 

 nosis, petalis sepalisque oblongis obtusis 8Bqualibus,labello 



trilobo obtuso : lobis lateralibus erectis rotundatis. 



Ceylon. Bracts large, oblong, petaloid, veiny, two- 

 coloured, green at the point, brownish red at the base. 

 Flowers nearly white. This is scarcely known except 

 from a drawing, and I am by no means sure that it is 

 not an Eria. 



58. D. catenatum (L. no, 41. JEpidendrum monile, Thunb. 

 Fl. Jap.) ; caulibus teretibus erectis : internodiis tumi- 

 dis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis acutis, racemis lateralibus 

 4-5-floris, sepalis petalisque lanceolatis acuminatis, labello 



oblongo apice trilobo. Japan, China. — • — This has 



regularly jointed stems, 5 or 6 inches high, small narrow 

 leaves and flowers with green sepals and white petals. I 

 only know it from a Chinese drawing in the possession of 

 the Horticultural Societv. 



