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intermediate segment clawed, tubercled or crested at t^ 

 usually 1 -toothed on both sides : column winged or petu. ; 

 anther 2-celled: pollen masses eight. — Terrestrial herbs: cori^ 

 subterraneous : leaves ensiform, plicate : flowers yellowish. 



(1) S. PTTBEscENs. (lAndl.) 

 Ident. Lindl. gen. and sp. p. 120. 

 JEngrm. Wight's Icon. t. 1739. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves binate, linear-lanceolate, narrow at the 

 base, striated, shorter than the erect scape : raceme secund, 

 bracteate : bracts minute, acute .* sepals ovate acute : petals oblong : 

 lip saccate at the base, the lateral lobes oblong, erect, middle one 

 with three keel-like appendages, two tubercles at the base, cuneate, 

 and a little longer : peduncles, sepals and ovary pubescent : flowers 

 dirty yellow, lip slightly violet at the base. 



£!hasia hills. 



GENUS XXXIII. BLETIA. 



Crynandvia. Monandpla. Sex: Syst. 



Berw. Named after Don Louis Blet, a Spanish physician and 

 botanist. 



Gen. Chab. Sepals spreading, equal : petals spreading or conni- 

 vent, almost equal: lip hooded, articulated with the base of the 

 column, sometimes saccate at the base, 3-lobed, disc usually lamel- 

 late or tubercled : column elongated, semi-terete : anther fleshy, 

 8-celled : pollen masses 8, equal, cohering to 4 powdery caudicles. 

 — Sub-terrestrial herbs : leaves ensiform, plicate : scapes racemose, 

 many-flowered : flowers usually showy. 



(1) B. OBCOKDATA. (lAndl.) 

 Ident. Lindl. gen. and sp. p. 123. 



Spec. Chak. Caulescent \_ sepals and petals linear, equal, obtuse, 

 lateral lobes of the spreading Sfi abbreviated, rounded, intermediate 

 one obcordate : scape lateral,' many-flowered, racemose : leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate, acuminate : flowers ochre, lip slightly veined 

 with red. 



Silhet. 



GEims xxxrv. aeundina. 



C}ynandria Monandvia. Sex: Sysu 

 Bervv. From Arundo, a reed, a resemblance in the stems. 



Gen. Chab. Sepals linear-lanceolate, equal, slightly connate at 

 the base, spreading : lip convolute around the column, not articur 



