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 ARUNDINA BAMBUSIFOLIA, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 9751; Gen. and Spec. 
Orch., 125. 
Stem stout, woody, erect, reed-like, often about 1 іп, in diameter at the base, 4 to 
7 feet high. Leaves membranous, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, not tapering at 
the sheathing base, 8 to 12 in. long, and 75 to 1 in. broad. Panicle few-branched, 
lax, with broad acute stout keeled persistent bracts; the flowers few and at the termina- 
tions of the branchlets, З in. across vertically. -Sepals free, spreading, sub-equal; the 
dorsal: erect, oblong, acute; the lateral pair lying parallel behind the lip, lanceolate, 
3-nerved, Petals rhomboid-elliptic, acute, spreading, shorter and broader than the sepals. 
Lip cucullate, its base convolute round the column; the mouth large, expanded, sub- 
quadrate, the basal lobes with recurved edges, the anterior corrugated; the apex broad 
and \irregularly toothed, deeply bifid and with a very narrow sinus between the lobules, 
the disc with three lamelle, Column long, slender, narrowly: winged. Anther-cells 4: 
Pollinia 8, very unequal, in two rows, those of the upper row much longer than those 
of the lower, cohering in fours to one membrane. Lindl, in Bot, Reg. XXVII, Mise. 2; 
in Journ. Lis Soc, ІП, 22; Wight Ie. 1661; Griff. Notul III, 329, 331; Ic. Pl - 
Asiat., t. 314; Walp. Ann. VI, 457; Hook. B. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 857. Cymbidium 
nica pital Rath, Hort. Beng., 63; Roxb, Fl. Ind. ІП, 460,  Bletia graminifolia, Don 
Prodr. 29. Limodorum graminifolium, Ham. MSS. 
Sikkim, from the base of the range to 3,000 feet, rather common; flowering from 
April to September, Pantling No. 17. Distributed westwards to Nepal and eastwards 
to Assam, the Khasia Hills, Manipur, Chittagong, and Upper Burma; also in the Nilgiri 
and Anamali Ranges in Southern India. 
The sepals and petals are of a pale pinkish-purple; the lip of а most brilliant 
rosy-purple which we have failed to imitate in our figure. The lamelle of the dise 
are composed of two long lateral ones reaching to the sinus on the terminal lobe and 
having two crimson hooks at their bases, and of a short mesial one, 
Pirate 156.—Arundina bambusifolia Lindl. Part of а panicle and of a leafy stem. Гіс. 1 the 
base of the lip, the convolute sides having been cut away so as to show the lamelle of the dise, 
2 column with the anther in situ, 3 inner surface of anther, 4 pollinia; all en/arged. 
18 Porpax, Lindl. 
Small E tes with much depressed sub-discoid pseudo-bulbs clothed with date 
sheaths. Leaves two, membranous, caducous. Flowers one to three, sub-sessile on the apex 
of the pseudo-bulb. Sepals connate into a tube; the lateral pair oblique at the base and 
adnate to the long-produced foot of the column, Petals small, free, included (except 
the tips in one species) in the sepaline tube. Column short, wingless, its foot longer 
than itself. Pollinia 8, unequal, attached by fours to a very short granular membrane. 
` Distrib.; six species all Indian. 
A small but very natural genus allied to Eria, but distinguished from that by its connate sepals 
which form a tube in which the petals are most entirely included ; distinguished also by its small 
size and by its curicus flattened reticulate pseudo-bulbs. It was founded by Lindley in 1845, 
Edges of lip laciniate, anther tuberculate, flowers pubescent . . . . . 1. P. fibuliformis, 
Edges of lip entire, anther smooth, flowers See Vee . M PR 
Axx. Roy. Вот. GARD., CALCUTTA, Vou. VIII. 
