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Obs. Aerides paniculatum (Bol. Beg. v. 3, /. 220) generis 

 pristini species impar nimis huic {monente D. Brown) apte 

 satis associari potest. Parasitica ambce. 



Van da BoxburgMi, ovariis contortis, petalis oblongo- 

 ovatis undatis, foliis oblique tridentatis. Brown MSS. 



The generic character now given has been formed by 

 Mr. Brown so as to include Aerides paniculatum^ pub- 

 lished provisionally by that generic name in our third 

 volume (fol. 220) ; but now it will be seen that the species 

 is not a very close congener of the one before us. The 

 Cymbideum tessellatum of Roxburgh is not included in the 

 present genus. 



Mr. Brown had some scruple in not ranging the group 

 under Angr^ecum of M. Du Petit-Thouars (of which a spe- 

 cies is given in ' Voy. de Bory de St. Vincent/ 1359, tab. 

 19), not being able, from want of sufficient detail in the 

 description of the structure of the parts of that genus, to 

 decide satisfactorily whether he ought to do so or not ; 

 and has at last been determined principally by the label in 

 Angr^ecum being undivided, and probably membranous, 

 while in Van da it is three-lobed and fleshy. He expects 

 that several species of Swartz's genus Limodorum will 

 be found to rank under the present. 



Bot. Beg. 506 (1820). 



Griffinia parviflora. 



Semina secundum observationes Bom. Brown, obovata, 

 ventricom, nitentia, ochroleuca ; umbilicus dasilaris'; apex 

 chalaza fusca insignitus ; raphe tenuis, immersa ; integu- 

 rnentum duplex, exterius membranaceum, nitens, per lent em 

 pule/ire areolatum, ventre long it udi?ial iter incrassatum, pra- 

 sertim in regione umbilici; membrana propria tenuissimu, 

 albumini adhcerens, separabilis tamen, evasculosa, basi cha- 

 laza inserta cceteriim libera; albumen semini conforme, 

 dense carnosum ; embryo axilis, longitudine dimidii albu- 

 minis, cylindraceus ; radicula umbilico approximata, apiee 

 exserto. Brown MSS. 



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