426 SCITAMINIA. 
tubum subzquantes, color albid. apicibus coccineo-roseis. 
Labellum slipper-shaped narrow circa basin intus pilosum 
filamentum etc. convolutum ad locum junctionis filamento 
utrinque 1-dentatum vel simplex, venosum, sanguineo-auran- 
tiaceum margine albis. 
Filamentum robustum simplex, connectivo emarginato. 
Anth. bilocularis intus pilosum. 
- Stylus superne circumdatus connectivo et loculis antherz. 
Stigma antheram terminans, discoideo-capitata, margo anticus 
fissus stigmatosus. 
Ovarium dense pilosum, l-loculare! placentis tubus on a 
transverse section hastate, the lateral arms, bearing many 
ovula pedicellate the central running to the axis, but not 
united, folia etc. non visa. 
Has. In Horto Malacca : January, 1842, 
ACHASMA, 
l. Achasma megalocheilos Gr. Pl. CCCLV. 
Scapus, 3-5 uncialis, bracteis. cuspidata apiculatis | striatis 
ciliatis laxe imbricatis. 
Bracteole 2 connatze, spathacei-fisse bipartita, (laciniis la- 
teralibus) tubum corollz paullo breviores. 
Calyx laxiuseulus spathacei-fissus, tubum zequans labio 
acuta et anguste 3-fido postico vel antico. 
Per. exterioris, laciniz lineares oblonge postico latiore 
in filam. recumbent. laterali angustis. conniventibus apicibus 
lacinia postica subsuppositis. 
Labellum maximum, ambitu 3-lobum cum filamento alti- 
uscula connat. lobis lateralibus in antheram subcucullatis, 1- 
erect, 1-slightly incurved, but by no means incumbent, mar- 
ginibus revolutis, centrali obovato minute undulato. 
Filam. dilatat. (liberum mediocre) anth, magna subbiloba, 
dorso apice intra marginem cristatula, loculis deorsum con- 
nivent glabris. 
