694 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BOTANICAL REGISTER. 



masses inserts lingulm communi brevi lato-lineari mem- 

 branacece albce e glanduld subrotundd apicis stigmatis ortce. 

 Stigma anticum cavum subrotundum viride secernens. Brown 

 MSS. 



The plant here described is the only certain species of 

 Lissochilus ; Cymbidium giganteum, however, according to 

 Thunberg's description, may also belong to the same genus. 

 This genus, in affinity, comes nearest to those plants of 

 South Africa at present referred to Limodorum and Cym- 

 bidium, namely, Limodorum barbatum, triste, longicorne, and 

 perhaps also hians of Thunberg (not, however, Satyrium 

 Irian s, Linn, which seems to be a Disd), Cymbidium pedi- 

 cellatum and aculeatum. These, along with several Indian 

 species, also referred by Swartz and Willdenow to Limo- 

 dorum, especially L. virens, wrinatum and perhaps epiden- 

 droides, form a genus (Eulophus) related on the one hand 

 to Lipodium (vide Prodr. Flor. Nov. HolL, p. 300), and 

 essentially agreeing with Lissochilus in the structure of 

 Anthera, but sufficiently different from it in its trilobed 

 crested labellum, which is neither cordate nor connected 

 at base with the column. In both these characters Lisso- 

 cliilus equally differs from Angr cecum of M. Du Petit- 

 Thouars, which has also an elongated spur, and a con- 

 siderably different habit. 



Among the plants at present referred to Limodorum, 

 another very distinct genus may be noticed, consisting of 

 Limodorum veratrifolium, and judging from Kaempfer's 

 figure, L. striatum also. This genus (Calanthe) agrees 

 with Bletia in having eight pollen-masses, but differs from 

 it in the claw of the labellum being connected with the 

 column. It is not unlikely that this may be the Cyanorchis 

 of M. Du Petit-Thouars, who will probably hereafter pub- 

 lish it under a different name. Broivn MSS. 



Bot. Reg. 573 [578 by mistake in orig.] (1821). 



