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Obs. Aerides paniculatum {Bot. Beg. v. 3,/. %-l^) generis 

 pristini species impar nimis huic {monente D. Brown) apte 

 satis associari potest. Parasitica ambm. 



Vanda Bowburghii, ovariis contortis, petalis oblongo- 

 ovatis undatis, foliis oblique tridentatis. Broion MS 8. 



The generic character now given has been formed b)'^ 

 Mr. Brown so as to include Aerides panicdattim, pub- 

 lished provisionally by that generic name in our third 

 volume (fol. 220) ; but now it will be seen that the species 

 is not a very close congener of the one before us. The 

 CiMBiDEUM tessellatum of Roxburgh is not included in the 

 present genus. 



Mr. Brown had some scruple in not ranging the group 

 under Angb^cum of M. Du Petit-Thouars (of which a spe- 

 cies is given in ' Voy. de Bory de St. Vincent,' 1359, tab. 

 19), not being able, from want of sufficient detail in the 

 description of the structure of the parts of that genus, to 

 decide satisfactorily whether he ought to do so or not ; 

 and has at last been determined principally by the label in 

 Anrr«cum being undivided, and probably membranous, 

 while in Vanda it is three-lobed and fleshy. He expects 

 that several species of Swartz's genus Limouorum will 

 be found to rank under the present. 



Bot. Beg. 506 (1820). 



Griffinia parviflora. 



Semina secundum observationes Dom. Brown, obovata, 

 ventricosa, nitentia, ochroleuca ; wmhWicws, basilaris ; apex 

 chalaza fusca insignitus ; raphe tenuis, immersa ; integu- 

 mentum duplex, exterius membranaceum, nitens, per lentem 

 pulchre areolatum, ventre longitudinaliter incrassatum, prce- 

 sertim in regione umbilici; membrana propria tenuissima, 

 albumini adhmrens, separabilis tamen, evasculosa, basi cha- 

 laza inserta cmterum libera; albumen semini conforme, 

 dense carnosum ; embryo axilis, longitudine dimidii albu- 

 minis, cylindraceus ; radicula umbilico approximata, apice 

 exserto. Brown MSS. 



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