474 GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. ^erideS; 



long, and rutlier more than half an inch broad. Racemes 

 lateral, much lons^er than the leaves, drooping elegantly. 

 Flowers numerous, scattered round the whole of the raceme 

 in great profusion, small ; colour a yellow ground, spotted 

 with purple, delightfully fragrant. Petals five, spreading, 

 nearly equal, narrow, obovate. Lip between the lower two 

 petals, and longer than them, though they are the longest of 

 the five, united to the base of the style, by a perfect, short, 

 linear claw. Lamina fleshy, horn-shaped, obtuse, perforated 

 a little way up from the base and on each side of the perfo- 

 ration a conical lobe projecting up and inward to the apex of 

 the style. Stamina, pistillum and capsule as in the genus. 



4. A. rostratum. Roxh. 



Parasitic, caulescent. Leaves bifarious, linear, channelled ; 

 apex praemorse. Racemes lateral, longer than the leaves. 

 Lip clavate, sac-conical from the apex of the lamina, column 

 beaked, with another on the posterior part near the base. 



A parasitical species; in external habit like prcemorsnm^ 

 retttsum, &c. but smaller, and the leaves more remote from 

 each other. It is a native of the forests of Silhet, where it blos- 

 soms in April and May. 



Racemes opposite to the leaves, or solitary, ascending, the 

 length of the leaves, many-flowered. Petals five, nearly 

 equal, spreading, rose-coloured, the lower two adhering to 

 the under side of the posterior part of the lip, as in Dendro- 

 hium but forming nothing like a spur, or claw. Lip horizon- 

 tal, of the colour of the petals, and about as long as they, cla- 

 vate ; there is a deep channel on the upper side, which des- 

 cends into the conical bag or case, which points down from 

 the apex of the lamina, in which before expansion, the re- 

 curved part of the beak of the style is lodged. Style or co- 

 lumn very short, but continued in a long, ascending, purple 

 beak, with a recurved white apex to this apex ; the two, 

 roundish pollen balls are attached by a white, flat filament, 

 M'hichisjust as long as the beak, and allows the balls to rest 



