Platk 215G. 



OXYANTHERA ELATA, lluoh. f. 



Orchide^. Sal)tribe NoTYLit:^. 



0. elata, Hjohf,; foliis 10-14 poll, longis lorlformibus apice rotnn- 

 datis, vagiiiis compi^essis coriaceis, scapo frracillimo, racemo elongato 

 laxiflorOjSepalis obloiigo-lanceolatif^, iabellolineari margiinbns uiidulatis 

 basi 2-auricnlatis. Thelas's elata, Hoolc. f. FL Brd, Ind. vi. 87- 



Hab. Malayan Peninsula ; Perak, on decayed wood, K'uvfs 

 Collector, 



Hhizowa crassih'e digiti minimi. Folia panca, ad 1 poll, lata; 

 vagiute 3-4 poll, longse, ^ poll. latoB, complicatte. Scopus foliis longior, 

 flexnosus, vafrinis 2-4 \ poll, longis instructus. Iiacemu^ 6-polliearis, 

 gracilis; bfacteae ovatse, acnujinata?, ovario breviores. Flares breviter 

 pedicellati ; periantliio 1 poll. lato. SepaJa acuminata, nervis obscuris. 

 Pefala sepalis consimilia. Lahelhtm subunguiculatum, obtu^um v. 

 subacutum ; auriculis revolutis. Eosfellum bipartitnm. 



In tbe * Flora of British India/ following Blume, Lindley, Bentbara, 

 and Reicbenbacb, I referred Brongniart's genus OxyaNthera to Thelads. 

 A re-examiiiation of both genera for the ' Icones ' has convinced me 

 that they should be kept ajjart, on the ground of the total difference in 

 habit, Oxyanthera having no p^eudobnlb, bat sheathing eqnitanfc leaves 

 on a short stem, with the blade articulate on its complicate vagina, 

 which sheathes the base of the scape; in the lip not being flat, but 

 concave and 2-auricled above the very short claw ; and in the rostellum, 

 which is very long in both genera, being entire ia Tltdasis^ but bi- 

 partite in O^tyaafhera. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1. Flowor. 2 Column aiul lip. 3. Lip. 4. Column with anther. 5. Anther. 

 All greatly enlaryrd. 



