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est to D. monilijbrme, and if Keenipfer's figure were inverted, 

 they might be taken for the same. 



10. D. teres. Roxb. 



Parasitic. Stein,hranches ^\u\ leaves nWcoXixmiviY. Ra- 

 cemes leaf-opposed, and of their length, few-flowered. Sta- 

 mina stenj-shaped, and bifid. 



Found on trees in the forests of Chittagong- and Silhet, 

 where it blossoms during the hot months of April, and May, 

 when nothing- can exceed its beauty. 



Root of thick, fleshy, crooked, lateral cords, which embrace 

 firmly the parent tree. Stem ramous, and with the branches 

 columnar and smooth. Leaves remote, bifarious, columnar, 

 smooth, from six to eight inches long, and as thick as a com- 

 mon quill. Racemes leaf-opposed, from six to twelve inches 

 long, flexuose, round, smooth. Bractes ovate, one-flowered. 

 Flowers generally from three to six on the raceme, but in- 

 mensely large as they expand fully four inches, of a lively 

 pink colour, with the large conic horn ferruginous. Carol ; 

 the exterior three petals oblong; the loioer two obliquely so ; 

 the interior ones nearly round. Lip, its posterior part unit- 

 ed with the insertion of the exterior lower two petals into a 

 large ferruginous conic horn. Lamina deeply thrce-lobed ; 

 lateral lobes incurved round the column ; the middle one fan- 

 shaped, and bifid. Germ, column, anther, and stigma as in 

 the genus. Capsule clavate, three-sided, down the middle of 

 each side is a three-sided rib. 



11. D.J'ormosiim. R. 



Parasitic, caulescent. Leaves bifarious, sessile, lanceolate ; 

 peduncles terminal, few-flowered. Lip sub-panduriform, re- 

 tuse. 



Found on trees in the forest of Silhet and the Garrow moun- 

 tains ; in flower in April and May. 



Root of fleshy, crooked, cord-like fibres, which embrace the 

 parent tree, as in other similar parasites. Stems many, cy- 



