384 On some Plants^ mostly unde scribe 



bilobum, ad medium abrupte deflexum, (e sepalis 2 lateralibus 

 compositum.) Sepala lateralia etiam cum pede columnae 

 connata. Labellum inclusum, cucullatum, (explanatum ob- 

 lunulatum) breviter unguiculatum, cum pede columnae articu- 

 latum ; lobi laterales oblongi, columnam fere includentes ; 

 centralis obsoletus truncatus ; fundus instructus processubus 

 luteis carnosis subglandulosis in seriebus transversis disposi- 

 tis, quorum basilares majores. Columna arcuata, apice dila- 

 tata et utrinque auricula carnosa antice truncata aucta, 

 basi in pedem mediocrem producta. Clinandrium breve. 

 Anthera terminalis, carnosa, bilocularis. Pollinia 4, per 

 paria collateralia, pulverea. Stigma infra clinandrium im- 

 mediate situm ; pars superior (rostellum) prominens, triangu- 

 laris, truncata. Capsula oblongo-fusiformis, fuscescens. 



This plant was first brought to me in 1841^ by one of my 

 collectors, who found it about Serampore. It also occurs 

 about clumps of bamboos around the villages here, whence it 

 has been introduced into the Botanic Gardens. I can say 

 nothing precise of its mode of vegetation ; but although its 

 appearance is entirely that of plants parasitic on roots, the 

 specimens that have been brought to me, though dug up with 

 care, have presented no appearances of such of the ordinary 

 parasitic adhesions as might have been expected. No other 

 Indian botanist appears to have met with it. 



The structure of the stigma appears to me remarkable. 

 The third stigma (uppermost from the resupination of the 

 flower) is prominent, and its front surface is truncate and trian- 

 gular in outline. But after maceration in spirits this sepa- 

 rates into two parts, an interior cellular, which might be mis- 

 taken for a gland ; and a posterior, resembling the ordinary 

 undivided rostellum of Dendrobeae and Epidendreae. I have 

 described it, however, as it appeared to me in the fresh spe- 

 cimens. 



I am not sufficiently acquainted with the genera of the 

 tribe to which this belongs to be able to state its more imme- 



