SPECIES OF GEAJLMATOniYL. 
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differs 
tlie peculiar insertion of the poUcn masses into the extremities of a liorsc-slioc sliapnl 
A more exact examination wiU show whether CymUdlum giganleum of Wallich also holori^s 
and in 
caudicle. 
to it. The Cymhidium elegans of Lindlej is the type of a new" genus, 
which is quite distinct both from Cjmbidium and Grummafoj)hvlhim in 
its long club-shaped column and two pear-shaped pollen masses furrowed 
at the back, disjoined, and fixed transversely to a common flat oval 
caudicle. This may be named Cyperouchis elegans. 
from Grammatophyllum is my j]:enus Leopahdanthus 
Equally 
different 
short broad obliquely truncate column, to the base of which the saccate 
lip is adnate, and its bifid caudicle peltate and recurved in front, on the 
two legs of which are seated elliptical pollen masses furrowed at the back. 
This Leoj)ardantJms scmidens is a terrestrial caulescent plant, climbing up 
'unk 
axillary. 
ip7i 
Concerning the Cyperorchis above named, we 
shall have something to say in an early number of this work. Lco- 
pardanthus is unknown to us, except by a figure in Blume^s Museum. 
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The following is the state of our acquaintance with the species belong- 
ing to this genus. 
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1. Grammatophyllum speciosum ; the subject of the foregoing remarks. 
L?p and pollen masses of 
GrammatnphylluTn. 
2. Grammatophyllum fastuosum ; foliis 
scapo erecto subcorymboso, floribus 
atis iindulatis obtusis anticis incurvis. 
fun do 
leaves. It is upon the \vhole a finer species than Or. speciosum itself. 
Griffith 
lowers are not quite bo largo, but m conse- 
form a kind of corymb. Their coloiup is 
former 
term In at 1 
appears 
Ml 
lose themselves in the pile of velvet at the very base of the lobe. The li| 
3. Grammatophyllum scriptum Blume, Rumphla^ 
vol. i.^ p. 47. 
Under this name is now arranged Rumphius's Angrcecum scriptum, hXL^ the Cymbidium, Epidendrum, or Gabertia 
founded upon it. We have never seen any specimens ; the plant is not in cultivation, nor do we find that Bhime 
himself has any personal knowledge of it, for what he says of it is cliiefly, if not wholly derived from Rumphius. That 
tree 
furr 
long narrow leaves like those of "Helleborus albus or Hyris," thick, firm, narrow below, widening upwards, above 
a foot long, 3 digits wide, and having in the middle 3 ribs, which do not project much. The flower-stem has no leaves, 
is 4 or 5 feet high, a little curved at the top, from which the flowers grow regularly one above another as in Hyacinths! 
The flo^^ ers themselves are as big as a Narcissus, composed of 5 outer petals, narrow at the bottom, broader at the top, 
some yellow, others greenish-yellow and inscribed with large spots and characters like Hebi-ew letters, but not distinct • 
they are reddish-brown, and different in different flowers. In the middle is a rolled up peUl resembling a goblet of a 
paler colour, streaked with browner purple lines. Of this he says there are certain varieties.— The ^secwd, which 
grows on the Calappa Palm U-ce, and of which he gives a figure. Its bursa or pseudobulbs are as in the other, but 
smooth, not jointed, and tliey are not so much furrowed lengthwise. The leaves are shorter, broader, and thicker 
without any ribs except that in the middle, from 13 to 16 inches long, and 4 broad ; they grow from the young pseudo-' 
bulbs (ex temris hursis). The flowering stem is from 5 to 5J feet long, as thick as the little finger, and covered with 
bloom for two-thirds of its length. The flowers are not unlike those of the first sort : thev have 5 crrppn n*.t^ic ««« «f 
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