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a foot-stalk, and iqiwards into a point, fallin"; off before the flowers appear. Flower- 

 stem, or scape, spiinging from the base of the matured pseudo-bulb, 1 foot or mure, 

 erect, bearing at intervals sheathing scales, clothed with hairs which stand out at right 

 angles with the stem. Flowers large, several, 7-8, in a loose drooping raceme. 

 Sepals and petals widely spreading, broad, lanceolate, pointed, nearly of the same 

 size. Lip widely spreading, the base of it attached to the sides of the colunin 

 along its whole length, laterally compressed ; the remaining or projecting portion 

 rounded in outline, deeply 3 lobed ; the middle lobe again subdivided, but not so 

 deeply. Spur long, slender, curved forward under the lip. Anther sunk in tlie 

 column, 2-eelled. Pollen-masses 8, tapering into caudicles, adhering to each other, 

 but without any gland. The colour of the flowers is pure white, with the exception 

 of a yellow or Roman-red stain in the eye of the lip. An extremely beautiful plant, 

 ■widely distributed ; always found on trees. 



The pollen-masses of C. vcratrifolia, a Straits plant, are united to a distinct 

 gland, but one of a difl'erent character from the gland of Fandece. C. ohtumia has a 

 distinct gland, very Yandeous-liko. 



LlilATODES, £1. 



Terrestrial plants, hearing pseudo-bulbs nourished by fibrous roots which penetrate 

 the vegetable soil. In character very near to CaJanthe. Sepals and petals spreading, 

 nearly equal. Lip free, undivided, spurred. Column very short. Pollen-masses 8, 

 as in Calanthe, without a gland. Leaves terminal, broad, plicate. Flowers in a 

 raceme on a stalk which springs from the base of the pseudo-bulbs. Species 1. 



L. KOSEA. 



Pseudo-bulbs elongated, jointed or constricted, angular, tapering upwards, 5-6 

 inches long. Stems villous, erect, with scales at intervals, many-flowered. Flowers 

 rose-coloured. Lip oblong, undivided, rolled into a tube at the base, and enveloping 

 the column ; pale yellow in the ei/e, which is surrounded by a deep crimson ring. 

 Spur long, stouter than in Calanthe, and bent backwards. Stem and flowers hairy. 

 A lovely plant, profusely abundant in the crevices and on the ledges of the limestone 

 rocks about Maulmain, growing in loose rich vegetaldo mould. 



The Messrs. Veitch have produced a hybrid plant by crossing Limatodes rosea 

 and Valantlie restita. The conclusion to be drawn from this is, not that plants of 

 distinct genera can bo intercrossed, but that the so-called genera are not really dis- 

 tinct. It points to the extremely close relationship of the plants, and to the purely 

 artificial nature of the distinction which luis been made. 



It may be remarked here that Caliuttlie and Limatodes have been placed by 

 Lindley and other botanists among Tandea, on account of the occasional appearance 

 of a gland to the pollen-masses. The character of this gland, however, as well as 

 that of the pollen-masses themselves, is very different from that which prevails among 

 Vandere} These two genera, accordingly, with some others, are now referred to the 

 Epidendrous division of Orchids, as showing more general affinity with it. 



Aeundina, Bl. 



Terrestrial plants with tall erect leafy stems and 2-ranked leaves, and no pseudo- 

 bulbs. Sepals lanceolate, equal, petals broader. Lip 3-lobed or entire, rolled round 

 the column, without a spur. Column half-rounded, clavate (club-shaped) at the 

 end. Pollen-masses 8, in fours. Flowers large, handsome. Species 1, Arundina 

 bawbiisifuHa, for description of which see Roxburgh's Flora Indica, vol. iii. p. 460, 

 under Ci/mbidiiim. Damp shady places among moist rocks. Akyab. 



Phaits, Lour. 



Terrestrial or epiphytal plants, generally tall and caulescent, though sometimes 

 stemless and pseudo-bulbous. Scapes radical. Flowers showy. Sepals and jietals 

 fi'ee, spreading, nearly equal. Lip rolled at its base round the column, 3-lobed or 



' C obtusata perhaps excepted. 



