1485 



AERIDES* corniitum. 



Horn-flowered Air -plant. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orciiide^ Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany, p. 262.) 



5) VandecB Lindley. 

 AER IDES. —Supra, vol. 3. fol. 220. 



A. cornutum ; foliis coriaceis apice obtusis obliquis, racemis pendulis multi- 

 floris foliis longioribus, labelli cucullati infundibularis laciniis lateralibus 

 erectis cuneatis rotundatis : intermedia ovata acuta, inflexa : calcare 

 incurvo. 

 A. cornutum. Roxb. hort. beng. p. 63. 



Caulis ramosus, c?-assus, Icete viridis, radices longas aereas tortuosas 

 emittens. Folia coriacea, 6-7 uncias longa, apice obliqua, obtusa, Icete viridia, 

 subdisticha. Bractese ovata, rigidce. Flores carnei,fragrantissimi. Sepala 

 patentia; inferiora ovata, lata basi columnce pedi adnata, supremum ovatum, 

 basi paululum angustatum, obtusum. Petala sepalo superiori subconformia, 

 patentia. Labellum infundibuliforme, cum pede columnce articulatum, 

 3-lobtim, laciniis conniventibus : lateralibus erectis, cuneatis, rotundatis, in- 

 termedia 1 lineari-lanceolatd ; calcaratum, calcare conico, incurvo, apice viridi. 

 Columna brevis, basi valde producta, canaliculata, intra lacinias labelli 

 abscondita. Clinandrium rostratum, acutum, ad caudiculam subulatam pol- 

 linis recipiendam. Anthera ovata, rostrata, basi bilocularis. Massse pol- 

 linis duce, globosce, intus sulcatce ; glandula obovata. 



This most lovely plant was originally obtained by 

 Dr. Roxburgh from Dacca, and must have been sent many 

 years since to the Garden at Kew ; for a blossom of it was 

 brought to us on the 8th of July, 1822, at which time it 

 was flowering in great beauty. 



Subsequently Dr. Wallich obtained it from Noakote, 



* So called from the power that this, like many other Orchideous genera, 

 possesses of living almost entirely upon the matter it absorbs from the atmo- 

 sphere, into which it emits its long tortuous absorbent roots. 



