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bearing- part drooping and crowded iu a somewhat verticelled 

 form, with innumerable, very minute, beautiful yellow flow- 

 ers ; the five petals oval, and nearly equal ; the lip two-lobed, 

 roundish-reniform, with the whole of the margin deeply jag- 

 ged, and the inside tomenlose. 



5. C. alatiim. li. 



Parasitic. Stems bulbiform, aggregate. Z,f a/* solitary from 

 the apex of each bulb, lanceolar. Scapes from the base of 

 the bulbs, drooping, many-flowered. Column much incurv- 

 ed ; apex w inged ; lamina two-lobed. 



A middling sized species, a native of the forests of Chitta- 

 gong. Flowers small, tinged with ferruginous red, and not 

 very conspicuous, they appear in April, and May. 



6. C. nitidum. Roxb. 



Parasitic. Stems bulbiform, shining, with two-petioled, 

 lanceolar, lucid leaves from the apex of each. Raceme axil- 

 lary, the length of the leaves. Petals lanceolar ; lamina 

 three-lobed, deflected. 



A native of the Garrow hills, where it is found growing on 

 trees, and like the greatest part of this order, blossoms dur- 

 ing the hottest time of the year, viz. May. 



Root of many, hard, pack-thread-like fibres, by which it 

 adheres to the parent trees. Stems none, or rather bulbiform, 

 long ovate, shining, nearly as large as a pullet's e^g^ biennial. 

 Leaves two, from the apex of each bulb, petioled, lanceolar, 

 shining, about nine inches long, by one and a half broad. 

 Racemes one from the apex of each bulb between the two 

 leaves, and about their length, smooth, the upper flower-bear- 

 ing, half drooping, withering. Floiuers a i'ew, large, nearly 

 white. Petals five, nearly equal, spreading, lanceolate. Lip 

 large ; lamina deflected, three-lobed, lower lobes large, rising 

 up, and embracing the exterior lobes, which are ovate and 

 rather small. Column elongated, clavate, recurved, apex 

 cucullato over the four ovate, deep yellow pollen masses. 



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