Bhajus.] 
ORCHiDEiE. (S. Moore.) 
349 
Var. longibracteata. Bracts 2—5 in. long. Bletia lancilolia, Ayres MSS. 
Shoulder of the Pouce, Ayres ! ; grand Bassin, Bouton ! Bojer ! 
There appear to be two forms of column to this plant, which are probably con- 
nected with some peculiar sexual condition. A specimen of Ayres’ gathering in 
which fertilization has been accomplished without opening of the flowers, was 
called by him Galanthe inaperta ; see Trimen Journ. Bot. 1876, 290. 
15. CRYPTOPUS, Lindl. 
Sepals spreading, entire. Petals a little larger than the sepals, 
lobed. Labellum almost free from the column, 4-lobed, with a long 
slender spur. Column short, terete, with a broad arm on each side ; 
pollen-masses 2, ovoid ; caudicles 2, with shallow cup-like summits, 
villous below ; glands oblong ; rostellum beaked. — Epiphytes with short 
leafy stems. Leaves distichous, vaginate, fleshy. Elowers conspicuous, 
in elegant erect lax racemes. Distrib. The genus is monotypic, and 
restricted to Mauritius and the neighbouring archipelago. 
1. C. elatus, Lindl. Bot. Beg. sub. t. 817. Stem terete, somewhat 
flexuous, as thick as a goose-quill, closely invested by the sheaths of 
the leaves and bearing, at almost every internode, a stout, unbranched 
aerial root. Leaves oblong or oblong-ovate, obliquely emarginate, 1-21- 
in. long, in. broad. Racemes 1-2 feet long, piercing the back of 
the leaf-sheaths ; flowers 1\ in. diam., yellowish. Sepals spathulate, 
f in. long. Petals unguiculate, the lamina irregularly 4-lobed. Lobes 
of labellum in two opposite pairs, the lower incurved-falcate, the upper 
spathulate, retuse ; spur nearly 1 in. long. Book. Journ. Bot. i. 45, t. 
115. Angrsecum elatum, Thouars, Oreb. Afr. t. 79. Beclardia elata, 
Rich. Orch. Maur. 78, t. 11 .f 3. Epidendrum dipterum, Sieb. Berb. 
Maur. No. 210 ! 
Mauritius, the Pouce and Quartier Militaire, Bojer ! Bouton ! Telfair ! etc. 
Also Bourbon and Madagascar. 
16. AERANTHUS, Lindl. 
Sepals subequal, spreading or recurved, the lateral sometimes adnate 
to the base of the spur. Labellum free from the column, entire, like 
the other perianth-segments or larger than them and lobed ; spur short, 
straight and obtuse or long, curved and attenuated. Column short, 
incurved, clavate ; pollen-masses 2, each sessile on or joined by a 
slender caudicle to an oblong gland ; rostellum of two broad, obtuse 
lobes. Habit and distribution of Angrcecum. 
Flowers solitary, axillary or leaf-opposed. Labellum 
like the sepals and petals. 
Leaves scattered on a slender stem. 
Flowers axillary, subsessile, \ in. diam. ; spur ob- 
tuse A in. long 1. A. pectin atus. 
Flowers on long slender leaf-opposed peduncles. 
Leaves lanceolate, l-i-3 in. long. Flowers ^ in. 
diam, ; petals ovate-lanceolate ; spur • 2-3 
in. long 2. A. gladiifolius. 
