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AEUNDINA BAMBUS^FOLIA. 



[Plate 139,] 



Kative of India : JVepal, JSylhet, Burmah, etc. 



, TeiTcstrial. Stems erect, terete, striate, witli tlie habit of a small bamboo, tlircc 

 to five feet high, as thick as a stout quill or" cue's little finger, poly])]iyll(jus. 

 Leaves a span to a foot in length, distant, distichous, ensiform, with t\w base 

 sheathing the stem, and the apex attenuated, erect and spreading, the upper ones on 

 the flowering stems reduced to sheathing bracts, which are numerous, short, ovnte 

 acute, spreading at the tips, so that the ijeduncles are ochreate, of a whitish green, and 

 terminate in a spike, sometimes branched, of several showy blossoms. Flowers l.irgo 

 and effective, measuring about two and a half inches across; sepals nnrrow lanceolate, 

 entire, the dorsal one erect, the two lateral ones sub-parallel, directed do^Tiwards, 

 of a pale pink colour; petals ovate, plane, spreading laterally, of a deeper pink 

 than the sepals, with a rose-pink stripe down the centre ; lip three-lobcd, the lateral 

 segments rolled over the column, pink, abruptly abbreviated in front, whore they arc 

 recurved and deeper in colour; middle segment larger, bipartite, tJie divisions 

 bluntly obovate- oblong, divaricate and crisped, of a magenta-rose, tlie throat white 

 ill the lower part, marked with w^hite lines on each side, the disk bearing trv-o 

 fleshy undulated lamellae or crests, and a third shorter straight one between them. 

 Column clavate, semi-terete, lying parallel with the lip. 



Aeundina bambusjsfolia, Lindley, in WalUclhs Catalogue, No. 3751 ; Id, 

 Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants, 125; Griffith, Notulee ad Plantar 

 Asiaticas, iii., 329, t. 314; Wight, Tcones Plantarum Indiw Orientalis, v., t. 1661; 

 Peichenhach Jil, in Walpers' Annales Botanices Systematicoe, vi., 457. 



Cymbidium bambusifolium, Roxburgh, Hortus Bengalensis, 63. 

 Bletia graminifolia, Don, Prodromus Florae Nepalensis, 29. 



The plant we now introduce to the notice of our readers is very distinct fr 



the ordinary types of Orchids, and is remarkable for its reed-likc stems, and its 

 very charming and beautiful blossoms. Its habit is to keep flowering in 8uccu,.ion 

 for a long period. When better Imowa it will be much sought after; at present 

 there are but few plants in cultivation, at least very few have come under our 



liotice. There exist several varieties which vary in the colouring of their ^^'>wcra; 

 that which we now figure being a very good tj^c Wc are indebted to T 



Cunningham Graham, Esq., Dunlop House, Stewarton, A>Tshire, for his kindness m 

 sending the specimens for the use of our artist A description of the Orchids at 

 I>uidop House will l)e found under plate 118 of our present volume. 



Amndina lamhusqfolia is an evergreen plant, with reed-like or bamboo-bke 

 sterns, bearing foliage of a li-ht green colour ; the sepals and petals arc pale magenta- 



