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(1) A. LATIFOLIA.. flAndl.J 



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



Engrcm. Wight's Icon. t. 914. 



Spec. Chab. Leaves oblong, plicate, shorter than the scape : lip 

 nnguiculate, 3-lobed, cohering with the elongated base of the 

 column : lateral lobes obtuse, shorter than the roundish ovate acute 

 middle one, the claws furnished with three truncated lamellse 

 terminating below the sinus of the lobes, that of the middle one 

 5-toothed, the lateral ones shorter. 



SUhet. Pulnejr mountains. 



GEimS XXXI. CIEEHOPETALUM. 



Crynandria Monandria. Sex: Syst: 



Beriv. From Cirrhos, a tendril, and Petalm, a petal, aUudrag ta 

 the form of the flowers. 



Geut. Chajb. Sepals ringent, lateral ones acuminate, very obKqne, 

 adnate to the column, much longer than the upper one : petals 

 dwarf, apiculate : Hp entire, articulated with the base of the column: 

 column very small, lengthened out at the base, with 2 petaloid 

 horns at the apex : anther 2-celled : pollen masses four, of which 2 

 inner ones are much analler, lameUiform. — Epiphytous herbs : 

 rhizome creeping, bearing 1-leaved pseudo-bulbs : leaves coriaceous, 

 veinless : flowers densely racemose, sometimes radiate, at the apex 

 ef a radical scape. 



(1) C. EoxBTTEGHn. (Lmdl.J 

 Ident. Lindl. gen. and sp. p. 58. 



Syn. Aerides radiatum, Moxb.flor. Ind. III. p. 476. 



Engrav. "Wall. pi. As. rar. I. t. 67. 



Spec. Chae. Petals ciliated, acute : sepals all acuminated : 

 leaves lanceolate: umbel radiate, many-flowered: flowers yellow, 

 upper sepal and petals purplfe-veined. 



Trees at the mouths of the Ganges, flowering in June and July. 



(2) C. PtMBBIATUM. (Hook.) 



Ident. Hook. Bot. Mag. — ^Liadl. in Bot. Keg. 1839, p. 72. — 

 Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 261. 



Engrao. "Wight's Icon. t. 1655. 



Spec. Cniii. Leafless : pseudo-bulbs csespitose, irregularly 

 angular, depressed: scapes slender, erect, furnished with remote 



