1020 BENGAL PLANTS. | Ae rides. 
racemes, sometimes swan ; floral bracts minute. Sepals pape 
spreading ; lateral adnate to base or foot of column. Petals 
sepals; lip adnate to ahaks spurred; side-lobes large or ae 
sometimes obsolete; mid-lobe larger than side-lobes, or smaller © 
nd i Column short, with a short or long foot ; rostellum 
short, or ‘westere and 2-fid. Anther 2-celled, beaked or not; pollinia 
2, globose, sulcate, with a short or long caudicle attached to a 
gland 
Side-lobes of lip very small ; _mid- lobe large :— 
Spur short, straight ; d-lobe of lip hastate-ovate, tip rou unded ; 
racemes rather dense, mae branched 1.442300 s de ee i um, 
Spur slender, uncinate ; mid-lobe of lip broad, obtuse or retuse, mar 
gins undulate ; racemes lax, often branched ...............++- ae or 
Side-lobes of lip larger than the incurved mid-lobe ; racemes rather lax, 
opening both centrifugally and centripetally odoratum. 
2075. Armes muntrrcorum Roxb. ; F. I. iii, 475; F. B. I. vi. 44 
Chota Nagpur, common; N. Bengal 
A showy epiphyte 
2076. AiripES mMacuLosum Lindl.; F. B. I. vi. 45. 
Chota Nagpur, rare. 
showy epiphyte. ‘ 
2077. ARES oporatum Lour.; F. B. I. vi. 47. 4. cornuium 
FT. Hii. 472. 
Chota Nagpur, not common. 
A showy epiphyte. 
912. Riynebisak) is Bl. 
Epiphytie herbs with elongated, stout, leafy stems; leaves very 
coriaceous, truncately or bluntly 2-lobed at the tip. Plowers 
showy, numerous, in pendulous, cylindric racemes. Sepals broad, 
obtuse, spreading. Petals rather narrower than sepals ; lip adna 
to the short foot of the column, the hypochile forming a deep, 
wide, compressed, pubescent sac without side-lobes ; the epichile 
obovate, acute, concave, with erect margins. Colwmn short, stout, 
dilated at base, foot very short; stigma small. Anther terminal, 
rounded ; pollinia - elliptic, adnate by a slender long caudicle to 
he small, oblong gland. 
2078. ha retusa BL; F. B. I. vi. 82. Aurides gut 
tatum F., I, iii, 471. 
