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one larger : lip posticous, unguieulate, without callosities, inappen- 

 diculate, cuneate, emarginate, crenulate : stems pendulous : flowers 

 green, lip sliglitly coloured. 



On trees, especially at the estuaries of rivers. Soonderbunds ; 

 flowering in the hot season. 



GENUS XX. AGGEIAJS'THUS. 

 Cynandria HSonandria. Sex: Systz 



DervB. From Aggeion, a vase, and Anthos, a flower, alluding to 

 the shape of that organ. 



Gek. Chak. Sepals equal, cohering, tubular, the lateral ones 

 connate with the prolonged base of the column : petals shorter than 

 the sepals, spathulate imguiculate, inclosed within the tube of the 

 calyx : lip articulated with the prolonged base of the column, broad 

 ovate rounded, papHLosely hispid at the apex, truncated and fur- 

 nished at the base with a subulate tooth-like proeess, 3-nerved in 

 the axis : column erect, concave above : anther 2-celled,. cells 

 obsoletely 4-celled with 4, (or by abortion ?) fewer obovate poUinia in 

 each. — Stemless plants, pseudo-bulbs aggregated, depressed flattened, 

 netted all over : leaves small, 2 — 5, sheathing, ovate, acute, mem- 

 branaceous : flowers tubular, vase-shaped, dull brick-red colour, 

 externally glabrous, pilose within : petals obovate, spathulate with 

 a longish claw, pubescent : the lip when spread out is somewhat 

 trowel-shaped at the base and orbicular at the point. 



(1) A. MABCHANTIOIDES. ( R.W. 



Ident. Wight Icon. v. t. 1737. 



Growing in broad patches (somewhat resembling a Marchanta) on 

 moist rocks on the lyamully HiUs towards Paulghat, flowering in 

 July and August. 



GENUS XXI. LICHENORA. 



Cynandrla Monandria. Sex: Syst: 



Gb3J. Chae. Sepals adhering at the base, posterior one larger, some- 

 what galeate : lateral ones connate with the prolonged base of the co- 

 lumn, ovate, obtuse : petals linear, lanceolate, shorter than the sepals : 

 lip sub-rhombeo-ovate acutish, articulated with the long base of the 

 column : anther terminal, 2-ceIled, with 4 pollinia iu each. — Stem- 

 less plants: pseudo-bulbs thin, flat, adhering Hke lichens to the 

 branch on which they grow : leaves paired, broad-ovate, sub-orbicular, 

 cuspidate-pointed, reticulately veined, large in proportion to the 

 rest of the plant, glabrous : flowers axillary, paired, short pediceUed, 

 hairy : bract obovate, somewhat boat-shaped, densely cUiate, lateral 

 sepals haiiy within 



