472 GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA, AeHdeS. 



bifarious, imbricated, sheathing, incurvate, linear, chan- 

 nelled, thick, firm, and smooth ; a/>ex obliquely prsemorse, 

 from six to twelve inches long, by one broad, when laid flat. 

 Racemes axillary, solitary, drooping, longer than the leaves. 

 FIotLiers numerous, pedicelled, approximate, diverging, pret- 

 ty large, colour a beautiful mixture of red and white, spot- 

 ted. Bractes ovate-cordate, one-flowered, embracing the 

 insertion of the pedicel. Corof, or calyx of Swartz, five-pe- 

 talled, the upper three oblong, the middle or inferior one ol" 

 these broader, the lower two semi-cordate. Nectary, (lahe.l- 

 lum, Swartz,^ longer than the petals, and more deeply colour- 

 ed, ascending", concave, cuneiform, with the apex slightly 

 three-lobed, behind protruded into a large, open, obtuse bag, 

 or horn. Co/w/jm of fructification short. Anthers or polli- 

 niferous balls two, covered with a deciduous lid. Germ in- 

 ferior, three-sided. Stigma an oblong clamni}' opening in 

 the middle of the inferior, flat side of the column. Capsule 

 pedicelled, oblong, three-sided ; angles sharp, sides with a 

 broad, flat keel, one-celled, three- valved. 



2. A. cornutnm. 



Parasitic, ramose. Leaves bifarious, linear, retuse. Ra- 

 cemes axillary, drooping. Lip with three-cleft lamina and 

 hooked horn, rising forward and upwardso 



Found growing in trees in the vicinity of Dacca, and the 

 eastern frontier of Bengal, in flower in April, and sweetly 

 fragrant. 



Root of several, long, thick, fleshy cords, by which they 

 bind themselves firmly to the trees they grow on. Stems 

 perenjiial, often divided, decaying at the base, as they shoot 

 from the apex, invested in the sheaths of the leaves. Leaves 

 equitant, bifarious, sheathing, linear, smooth, channelled, 

 drooping, obliquely prsemose or retuse ; from six to nine 

 inches long, by from one to one and a half broad. Racemes 

 sub-axillary, solitary, drooping, longer than the leaves. 

 Flowers large, surrounding more than the exterior half of the 



