462 GYNANDRiA MONANDRiA. Cymhidium. 



greenish yellow,the three upper ones forming- a vault over the 

 column ; the lower two projecting into the margins of the lip, 

 which is composed of an inner, oval, concave portion, joined 

 to the lamina, or exterior reniform, cordate part; the whole is 

 of a firm, fleshy texture, and longer than the petals ; colour 

 a dark purple, with a few yellow spots. Anthem deciduous ; 

 pollefi in two round yellow waxy balls. 



10. C. aphyllum. Swartz. See Willd. iv. 100. 



i2oof fibrous. 6'fems simple, round, jointed, leafless. Flow- 

 ers lateral, sub-sessile ; Up with a convolute base, and sub- 

 orbicular, undivided, fringed lamina. 



Limodormn aphyllum. Coram, pi. i. jY. 41. 



A rare plant, a native of dry rocky hills. I brought it into 

 my garden, planted it in as dry and barren a spot as I could 

 find, but with me it lived only till the first rains fell ; how- 

 ever, it blossomed at the beginning of the hot season. 



Roots fibrous; adhering in a tuft to rocks, &c. Stems per- 

 ennial, several, simple, diflfuse, or pendulous, as the situation 

 admits, naked, round, jointed at every inch, at each joint a 

 small membranaceous scale, without the least vestige of a 

 leaf. Flowers sessile, unless the germ is called a peduncle, 

 generally single, issuing from the joints of the stems. Lip or 

 nectary large, near the base the sides are incurved to form as 

 it were, a tube ; the exterior part six-parted ; margins curl- 

 ed, waved, and ciliate; of a pale sulphur colour. 



11. C. tessallatnm. Willd. iv. 102. 



Para'-itic, caulescent. Leaves bifarious, equitant, linear, 

 proemorse, dentate. Racemes axillary, few-flowered. Flow- 

 ers bifarious. Lip with the sides incurved into a tube ; lami- 

 na tapering, entire, acute. 



Epidendrum tessellatum. Corom.pl. i. JV. 42. 



A very beautiful, perennial parasitic, found adhering to the 

 trunks and branches of trees, amongst the Circar mountains. 

 It flowers during the wet season. 



