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CHRYSOBAPHUS ROXBURGH!!. 
Februario. In liorto botanico Calcuttensi viget floretque mensibus Novembre_ 
Januario. 
Can Its teres, simplex, carnosus, basi pennam scriptorium crassus, subrepens, ves- 
ti^iis annulatus foliorum delapsorum, fibras paucas radicales exserentibus simplices, 
villosas, ad axillas s*pe proliferas ; inde erectus, sex- ad octopollicaris, attenuatus, fus- 
cescens, \ illis minutis, hyalinis, articulaiis, quandoque capitellatis, eonspersus,basi folio- 
sus, superne bracteatus. Folia quatuor vel quinque, approximata, sparsa, pateutia, 
plana, ovata, subcortata, basi leviter retusa vel rotundata, acuta, polliearia, bipollica- 
ria, subcarnosa, parutn ina?quilatera, supra holosericea, atroviridia, sub lente visa mi- 
nutim papillosa, subtus dilute purpurascentia, nitidissiine picta nervis octo decemve 
parallelis, vix elevatis venisque plurimis transversim reticulatis, ad paginam superiorem 
colore aureo fulgentibus, aetate coccineis ; ad inferiorem vero laete viridibus. Petioli 
breves, vix unguiculares, caualiculati, desinentes invaginulas breves,aridas, tenuissimas, 
membranaceas, nervoso-striatas, caulem arete amplectentes, ore obliquas, lobuloque ob- 
tuso brevi utrinque auctas. Brae tea; alternae, remotiuscula?, membranaceae, lanceolata?, 
acuminata?, pollicares, dilute rubescentes, glabra?, basi in vaginulam brevissimam desi¬ 
nentes, sursum patula?, cito emarcescentes. Flores (fig. 1.) mediocres, albi, odorati, pa- 
tentes, alterni, distantes, racemum terminalem, erectum, quadri- ad quinquepollicarem, 
oblongum formantes. Rachis teres, gracilis, recta, puberula. Perianthium (fig. 2. 3.) 
ex viridi rufescens, extus villis mollibus vestitum, secundum, subringens, angulo recto 
ex summo ovario divergens, cum reliquis parti bus floris anticis post expansioneni 
introrsum vel posticum; subtus ventricosum, supra ringens. Foliola distincta; exterio- 
ra tria magnitudine subaequalia, in galeam conniventia ovatam, ventricoso-gibbosam ; 
quorum anticum ovatum, concavum, tres liueas longuni, apice acutA paullo recurvum, 
basin floris sufTultiens; postica oblongo-lanceolata, insequilatera, margines antici 
obtegentia, acuta, basi angustatA et obliquA in lobulum desinentia labelli basi paralle- 
lum. Interior a duo minora, albida, marginibus rufescentibus, laevia, falcata, oblique 
acuminata, exterioribus occultata, basi contracta gynostemii basi lateraliter inserta. 
Xafcc//Mm(fig.4.5.6.)album, laeve, periantbio triplo majus ; basis horizontalis, carnosa, 
oblonga, cucullato-tubulosa, dorso convexa, subtus perforata liiatu obliquo, in lobulos 
duos desinente, circum basin gynostemii inserto; postice subcalcarata, bidentata ; ca- 
vitas laevis, propter callos duos parietales, convergentes sub-bilocularis. Lamina e 
dorso basis labelli adscendens, unguiculata, ovarium longitudine a?quans, sursum leviter 
reclinata, biloba, lobis oblongis, obtusis, integerrimis, fere unguicularibus, patulis, 
verticalibus (superficiebus nempe intends oppositis) basis semilunariter exscicfe angulo 
antico insertis; unguis lanceolatus, lobis parum brevior, leviter canaliculatus,ciliis longis, 
patentissimis, concoloribus, subulatis, simplici serie ordinatis marginatus. Gynoste- 
mium. (fig. 7.8.) breve, sessile, couicum, carnosum, versus galeam reclinatum, cavitate 
labelli semiinclusum, cuspidula recurvata terminatum, postice carinatum et rima longi- 
tudinali sulcatum. Anthera (fig. 8.) magna, ovata, acuminata, verticalis, mobilis, per- 
sistens, bilocularis, basi rotundata ope pedicelli brevissimi adfixa. Clinandrium 
magnum, planiusculum, fere totam gynostemii partem anticam occupans. Massa ? 
pollinicce (fig. 8.* 9.) dua?, clavatte, sectiles, medio umbilicata?, pendulae, e corpusculis 
conflatse numerosissimis, subulatis, facile solubilibus, in caudiculas abeuntes parallel as 
et contiguas, extra apicem anthera? porrectas, vaginatas squamulA propria tenuissimA, 
pendulA, liberA cumque ea retinaculo comm uni, globoso, minuto apicis gynizi adfixas. 
Gynixus anticus, super clinandrium positus, basi utrinque glandula convexA, sessili, 
viscosA uiunitus, medio sulcatus, apice porrecta squamulas istas vaginales, caudiculas, 
necnon retinaculum adfigens. Ovarium sessile, parum villosum, cylindricum,trieosta- 
tum, apice contractum et parum iiicurvum, longitudine bractese lanceolaUe suppositse, 
mox spiraliter tortum. 
Observation. 
There is a degree of intricacy in the flowers of this singular plant, which renders 
their description not a very easy undertaking. By the aid of the accompanying plate, 
