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RENANTHERA matutina. 
Morning Renanthera. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Orchidaceaj. § Vandeje — Sarcanthid^e. 
RENANTHERA. Rot. Reg. vol. 14. t. 1131. 
R. matutina (Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 218. Aerides matutina ? Blume 
Bijdr. 1. 366. tab. 24.); racemis densis cylindraceis longipedunculatis 
paniculatis simplicibusque, sepalis petalisque obovato-linearibus obtusis, 
labelli limbo ovato acuto calcari obtuso subeequali. 
Although this plant bears no comparison with the magni- 
ficent Chinese species on which the genus was founded, yet it is 
very far from being unworthy of cultivation. Indeed, by the 
number of its flowers and the richness, though not brilliancy, 
of their spots, it makes up in some measure for their want of 
size. 
The first mention that is made of it is in Blume’s Bij- 
dragen , where it is referred with doubt to the genus Aerides, 
and said to be found in flower in the month of September, on 
trees at the foot of Mount Salak, in Java. Mr. Cuming 
afterwards gathered it in the Philippines, but by no means in 
so luxuriant a state as the specimen now represented, which 
flowered at Chatsworth in December last, and was kindly 
placed at our disposal by His Grace the Duke of Devonshire. 
We have also received it from Messrs. Rollissons. 
Fig. 1. represents the lip; and 2. the pollen apparatus of 
this plant. 
