476 GYNANDRiA MONANDR1A. Aerides. 



ers : A native of Silhet, where it grows on trees and flowers 

 during the hot season. 



7. A. ampullaceum. R. 



Parasitic, caulescent. Leaves bifariously imbricated, linear, 

 emarginate. Racemes axillary, short. Petals oval, nearly 

 equal ; lip with a long, flagon-shaped bag, and linguiforni 

 lamina. 



Found by Mr. M. R. Smith growing on trees in the forests, 

 in blossom in May. 



Stems short and generally simple, from the lower part 

 throwing out the fleshy, strong, radical cords, by which they 

 are bound to the parent tree; they are only a few inches long, 

 decaying at the base, as they shoot from the apex. Leaves 

 sheathing bifariously, imbricated, linear, hard and glossy, ob- 

 liquely emarginate, about six inches long. Racemes axilla- 

 ry, scarcely one third the length of the leaves, erect ; rachis 

 withering and remaining, /^lowers numerous, small, rosy. 

 Petals nearly equal, oval, and spreading. Lip with a sac, 

 or bag, pendulous, and twice as long as the petals ; lamina 

 short; linguiforni. Columti short. Pollen masses two and 

 globular. Capsules clavate, six-ribbed. 



8. A. radiatum. R. 



Parasitic. Stems bulbiform, with a single lanceolar leal 

 from the apex of each. Scape umbelliferous, the lower two 

 petals very long and falcate. Lip conical, recurved, cellular. 



Found by Dr. W. Carey indigenous on trees in the Delta 

 of the Ganges, where it blossoms about the beginning of the 

 rains. 



Root of many, hard, slender fibres. Stems no other than 

 the little remote round bulbs, which are connected by a 

 slender shoot of about an inch in length. Leaf a single one 

 from the apex of each bulb, lanceolar, somewhat channelled, 

 fleshy and smooth, from three to four inches long, and less 

 than one broad. Scape from the base of the bulb, longer 



