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conatricted in the middle, sub-pandurifonn, upper half larger, sub- 

 orbicular, emarginate, cuspidate in the sinus, lower half orbicular, 

 with 2 tubercles at the base : column erect, clavate, margins dilated, 

 membranous in front : anther 2-ceUed, with a long blunt rostellum : 

 pollen-masses 2, unequally 2-lobed, posterior lobes smaller : caudicle 

 filiform, gland orbicular : capsule long, clavate, drooping. 



(1) C. MACEOSTAOHTS. (R.W.) 



Ident. Wight's Icon. v. t. 1755. 



Syn. Vanda pedunculaiis. Lindl. gm. and sp. p. 216. 



Engra/v. Paxt. flower garden. III t. 253. 



Spec. Chas. Caulescent, epiphytal: leaves linear, distichous, 

 obliquely emarginate : peduncles very long, bearing a few-flowered 

 short racemes at the apex : lip purple with yellow borders, velvetty, 

 furnished with bristly knobs find appendages. 



"Warree Country. Chorla Ghaut. Neilgherries. Near TeUicherry, 

 Malabar. 



GENUS III. LIPAEIS. 



Crynandvia Monandpia. Sex: Sysu 



Gen. Char. Sepals spreading, free, lateral ones equal -at the 

 base, usually shorter : petals narrower than the sepals, seldom 

 equal, linear or filiform : Kp ascending or erect, a little accrete at 

 the base with the column, usually with two tubercles above the 

 base, entire, sometimes mucronate but not lobed : column elongated, 

 half-terete, incurved, marginate at the top. — Terrestrial or epiphy- 

 tous herbs : leaves concrete at the base into a pseudo-bulb, some- 

 times membranaceous plicate, or sub-coriaceous with the veins less 

 distinct : scape terete or angled, or two-edged : flowers small, 

 herbaceous, racemose, seldom yellow or white. 



(1) L. oLivACEA. (Lindl. J 



Ident. Lindl. gen. and sp. p. 27. 



Migrcm. Wight's Icon. t. 903. 



Spec. Char. Leaves binate or solitary, roundish, cordate or 

 oblong, acuminated, pHcate, shorter than the erect many-flowered 

 raceme : scape terete at the base : , Up obovate, retuse, with a mucro, 

 bituberoulate at the base : sepals obtuse, lateral ones resting on 

 the lip. 



Pulney mountains, on rocky cUfts. 



