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(1) M. STEicTA. fLindl.J 



Ident. Lindl. gen. and sp. p. 63. 



Syn. Eria strieta, Imil. Coll. Bot. t. 41, £. 



Migra/o. Wight's Icon. t. 1733. 



Spec. Chab. Stem terete : spike secimd, densely many-flowered '• 

 lip with, a sorotifonn callosity in the middle : perianth woolly, 

 short : leaves 1 — 2, linear-lanceolate, sessile : flowers glaucous out- 

 side, pale ochre-yeUow inside. 



Assam. Khasia. 



GENUS XXIV. PHREATIA. 



Crynandria HHonandria. Sex: Syst: 



Gen. Chat?,. Sepals connivent, almost equal, lateral ones coimate 

 with the prolonged base of the column: petals smaller, conformable: 

 lip entire, fleshy, articulated with the foot of the column : column 

 dwarf, clinandrium deeply immersed: margin membranaceous, 

 almost entire : anther enclosed within the clinandrium, 2-celled, 

 cells obsoletely 4-pitted : pollen masses 8, spherical, cohering with 

 viscid matter. — Caespitose, epiphytous, pseudo-bulbous herbs: leaves 

 not plicate : scapes radical. 



(1) P. uraxoKA. (R.W.) 



Ident. "Wight's Icon. v. t. 1734. 



Spec. Chak. Eepent : pseudo-bulbs globose, about 2-leaved : 

 leaves obovate, cuspidate : scape longer than the leaves, 1 -flowered : 

 bract large, cordate-ovate, acuminate: Kp lanceolate-acuminate, 

 2-nerved. 



Khasia hills. 



GENUS XXV. ACAMPE. 



Oynandrla nonandria,. Sex: Syst: 



Gen. Chab. Sepals fleshy, brittle, flattened out, aU equal at 

 the base, the lateral ones slightly adnate to the spur of tiie Up, 

 dorsal one a little larger or more remote : petals of the same form 

 as the sepals, always straight : lip fleshy, fragile, saccate or spurred, 

 adnate to the footless column, undivided, aurided, often increased 

 within the bag by an elevated Unea or plate and hairs : column 

 thick, dwarf, footless, anticous angles usually produced into a 



