ORAMMATOPHYLLUM. 



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Tho genus is closely allied to Cymbidium, from which it differs 

 chiefly in the structure of the pollinary apparatus. Its general 

 characters will be gathered from the description of the species that 

 follow. The name is derived from -fpuf.ij.ia, "a, mark or character/' 

 and (j>v\XoVy "a leaf/' in alkisiou to the markings on the perianth 

 segments, the type species was thence fancifully called the Letter 

 Plant. 



Grammatophyllum Fenzlianum. 



Stems pseudo-buibous, clavate-fusiform, slightly compressed, 4 — 6 inches 

 long and 2 — 3 inches broad, partially invested with white membraneous 

 sheaths, 3 — 5phylIous. Leaves narroAvly oblong or lanceolate-oblong, 

 12 — 18 inches long and 2 — 2| inches broad, dark green and leathery. 

 Scapes from the base of the stems, arching, 3 — 4 feet long, racemcd 



GrammatopliylUuii Fenzlianum, var. Measuresiauum. 



from near the base, many - flowered ; bracts small, scale-like. Flowers 

 somewhat distant, 2^ inches in diameter; sepals and petals pale yellow- 

 green spotted with brown, th(> sepals narrowly elliptic-oblong, the petals 

 oblanceolate, reflexed at the apex and narrower than the sepals ; lip 

 shorter than the other segments, three-lobed, the side lobes oblong, erect, 

 yellowish obliquely striped with brown, the intermediate lobe oblong, 

 obtuse, pubcsceut on the disk, reflexed ; between the side lobes is a 

 channelled white plate. Column terete, bent, whiiish. 



Grammatophyllum Fenzlianum, Rchb. Xen. Orch. 11. p. 16 (1862). 



