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Fig. 5. Column and anther of Habenaria biflora. From 
specimens in Kew garden, 1829, 
Pl. CCLXXXIII. A. 
Fig. 1. а Woody fibre, & one of the vessels from the cer tral 
hard part of the root of an zerial orchis. 
Fig. II. Dendrobium aloefolium, Sept. 1829. 
Fig. ПІ. Cyrtopedium  Andersonii. — 
Fig. IV. Column of Cattleya. 
Fig. V. Oncidium altissimum. 
Fig. VI. Epidendrum, 1832. 
Fig. VII. Neottia speciosa, 1832. 
Fig. VIII. Cheiloglotis diphylia, 1832. 
Fig. IX. Spiranthes autumnalis 1832. The four last from 
specimens in the Jardin des plantes. 
Fig. X. Listera ovata from specimens in Kew garden, 1829, 
MicnosrYLis. 
l. Microstylis. 
Epiphytia czespitosa. Pseudobulbis 4-5 foliosis ovatis, vagi- 
nis latissimis foliorum arcte vestitis. Fol. linearia, acuta, lati- 
tudine semiuncialia, repanda, I-venia subtus basin versus 
nervo medio carinata, Jutescentia virida ut tota planta. 
Racemis terminalis folia excedente duplo fere basi ancipitis 
bracteate, bracteis lanceolatis basi cordatis acuminatis semi- 
amplexicaulibus l-nervis, in parte florifere sulcato-angulato : 
flores numerosi, postice in pedicellis filiformibus lóngiusculis 
bracteus paulo excedentibus, primo rectis demum ad ovarii 
basin subgeniculatis, minute lutescentes. 
Perianthium explanatum. Sepala zqualia oblonga obtusa, 
postico ascendente lateralibus mutuo approximatis, patentis- 
sime marginibus revolutis ita ut dorsaliter approximato sunt. 
Petala linearia angustissima pariter revoluta et apices versus 
reflexa. Labellum carnosum cum columne basin continuum, 
oblongum obtusum basin versus utrinque auriculatum, sinu an- 
