FRONTISPIECE.
A WREATH OF EAST INDIAN ORCHIDACEÆ.
The figures here given comprehend magnified views of the flowers employed in forming, the wreath selected as a frontispiece to this
work. The numbers in both cases refer to those in the Mowing descriptions.
I. MONOMERIA BARBATA.
Monomeria barbata. Genera § Species of Orchidaceoe, page 61.
Dendrobium tripetalum. Wallich mss.
All that is known óf this rare and very curious plant is. derived from a drawing and some
imperfect dried specimens brought from India by Dr. Wallich, who found the plant in Nepal in the
year
Its chief peculiarity consists in the absence of petals ; a very curious and unusual circumstance
in this natural order of plants. Dr. Wallich indeed represents them to be present in the form of a
Frontispiece. &
