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nearly equal : lip oblong, hooded, denticulate, rounded at the top : 

 disc 5-cre8ted: spur straightish, emarginate: flowers very large, 

 ■white, fragrant, lip purple-veined with a yellow disc. 



Ehasia hUls, flowering in April and May. 



GENUS XXVII. CTTKEEI8. 



Crynandvla Monandrla. Sew: Syst: 



GrEN. Chab. Sepals spreading, nearly equal : lateral ones adnate 

 at the base to the spur, upper one parallel with the broader mem- 

 branaceous petals, recurved : Hp spurred, flat, 3-lobed, disc crested : 

 column short, winged, clavate : anther membranaceous, 2-celled : 

 pollen masses 8, equal. 



(1) C. coEDrpoLiA. (lAnAl.) 



Ident. Lindl. gen. and sp. p. 129. 



Spec. Chab. Terrestrial : stem thin, clothed with lax mem- 

 branaceous sheaths : leaves cordate, oblong, acuminate, 5-plicate, 

 long-petioled : bracts linear, acute : spur short, clavate, very 

 obtuse : lip oblong, narrowed at the base, lateral lobes entire, much 

 smaller than the middle one, with three approximated elevated 

 sub-undulated lines in the middle, free at the apex : scape terminal: 

 flowers smaU. 



Khasia hUls. 



GENUS XXVIII. APATUEIA. 



Crynandvia Monandrla. Sex: Syst: 



Gen. Chab. Sepals spreading, pubescent, lateral ones sometimes 

 larger, oblique at the base : petals narrower, spreading : lip clawed, 

 articulated with the more or less prolonged base of the column, 

 yentricose at the base, fleshy, 3-lobed at the apex, disc crested : 

 column terete, clavate, arched, cliaandrium vringed : anther 4 — 8- 

 celled : pollen masses 8. — Terrestrial, leafless : scapes clothed with 

 scarious filamentous sheaths : bracts membranaceous : flowers 

 racemose, pendulous, pubescent. 



(1) A. sENrus. (Lindl.) 



Ident. Lindl. gen. and sp. p. 130. 



Syn- A. Liadleyana, WigMs Icon. v. t. 1662. 



Spec. Chab. Petals linear-oblong : veins three, distant, lateral 

 lobes of the lip sub-falcate, intermediate one ovate, undulated, a 



