Aerides. oynandria monandria. 471 



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 oles, win'cli are about six inches more, from tliree to four 



inclies broail. Scape as long as the petioles of the leaves, and 

 embraced by a few flower-bearing- sheaths ; apex short and 

 drooping as in L. recurvum. Flowers of a middling size, 

 white. Bractes ensiform. Petals five, oblong, spreadino-, 

 the exterior three rather narrower, of which the lower two are 

 considerably Calcate. Lip much larger than the petals, oval, 

 emarginate ; centre tinged with pink, with a swelling behind, 

 but no horn. Column short. Pollen 7nass€s two, sub-orbi- 

 cular. Lid deciduous. 



AERIDES. Swarlz. 



Carol filve-petalled, spreading. Lip calcarate; lamina 

 saccate. Anther a deciduous lid. 



1. A. fjuttatum. Roxb. 



Parasitic. Stem creeping. Leaves bifarious, imbricated, 

 linear, channelled, obliquely praemorse. Racemes axillary, 

 pendulous. Floicers pedicelled. Lamina entire, ascend- 

 ing, oblong; sac wide, and obtuse; capsule triangular. 



Beng. Perida Mura. 



This lovely parasitical species was found growing on trees 

 in the vicinity of Dacca by the Honourable Charles Andrew 

 Bruce, who sent plants to the Botanic garden at Calcutta. 

 Flowering time the hot and rainy seasons, it has a great re- 

 semblance to the tables in Rheed's Hortus Malahariciis, quot- 

 ed by Wilklenow, for Aerides retnsum and prcemorsnm, but 

 ihe capsule differs from both and I believe the horn and lip 

 of the nectary also ; however they are certainly very nearly 

 allied, and not inferior in beauty, while in flower, to any of 

 the whole order of Orchidea. 



Root of several, thick, fleshy, obtuse fibres, which issue 

 from the stem, through the sheaths of the lower leaves, and 

 adhere to the tree which gives support to the plant. Stem pe- 

 rennial, creeping, invested in thesheaths of the leaves. Leaves 



