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lated with it, 3-lobed or entire, crested in the middle or with so^ 

 elevated lines : column straight, parallel with the lip, half-terete, 

 clnb-shaped. — Caulescent, terrestrial herbs : leaves distichous, ensi- 

 form, plicate : flowers purple, showy. 



(1) A. BAMBUsiToiiA. ( lAndl.j 



Ident. Lindl. gen. and sp. p. 125. 



Syn. Bletia gramimfolia, Don. prod. flor. mp. p. 29. Cymbidium 

 bambusifolium, Eoxb. flor. Ind. Ill, p. 460. 



Bngrwo. Wight's Icon. t. 1661. 



Spec. Chab. Lip furnished within with two fleshy undulated 

 crested plates, and a short straight intermediate one : lateral lobes 

 short, entire or sub-obsolete, middle one 2-lobed, segments divari- 

 cating, crisp : petals lanceolate, leaves acuminate : flowers rosy. Up 

 a lively red-purple. 



Silhet. Chittagong. Vailey Mullay in Travancore. Malabar. 

 Flowering in the hot season. 



GEFCJS XXXV. GEODOEUM. 

 Crynandvia Monanclvia. Sex-. Sysu 



Derw. From Ge, the earth, and Boron, a gift. 



Gekt. Chae. Perianth connivent : sepals and petal free, sub- 

 secund, somewhat equal : lip hooded-ventricose, sessile, not jointed 

 with the column, saccate towards the base : column short, erect, 

 half-terete : anther 2-lipped : pollen masses 2, posticously 2-lobed, 

 caudicle very short, gland transverse. — Terrestrial, tuberous : leaves 

 plicate : racemes recurved at the apex. 



(I) G. PTJBPrmEUM. (R. Br.) 



Ident. E. Br. in Hort. Kew, ed. 2. 5, 207. — Lindl. gen. and 

 sp. p. 175. ' 



Syn. Limodorum nutans, Roxb. — Malaxis nutans, Willd. 



Mngrm. Eoxb. Cor. 1. 1. 40. 



Spec. Chae. Scape longer than the leaf: raceme pendulous: 

 flowers alternate : lip ovate, acute, painted : flowers rose-coloured. 



Moist vallies among the Circar mountains, flowering in the rainy 



