TAINIA (from tainia, a band or fillet; in allusion to the shape of the lip). SYNS. Ania, Mitopetalum. ORD. Orchideae. A small genus (six or seven species) of stove orchids, natives of the East Indies, South China, and the Malayan Archipelago. Flowers pedicellate, scattered, rather large or mediocre; sepals and petals narrow, slightly acute or long-acuminate; lip erect; column rather long; pollen masses eight; scape florid, tall, leafless, few-sheathed at base; raceme terminal, simple. Stems at length thickened into pseudo-bulbs. Only two species call for mention here. For culture, see Calanthe. TAINIA bicornis (two-horned). fl., sepals and petals green, with a reddish tinge; lip yellow, blotched with red, the middle lobe emarginate, apiculate, not spurred, having two lamellae at base; anthers two-horned. March. l. oblong-lanceolate, fleshy, shorter than the scape. Ceylon, about 1842. SYN. Ania bicornis (B. R. xxx. 8). TAINIA latifolia (broad-leaved). fl. green and brown; petals slightly spreading; lip unguiculate, produced with the column in a connate, trilobed sac, the lateral lobes obtuse, the middle one acute, shorter; scape 2ft. long. l. oblong, plicate, shorter than the scape. Sylhet, 1852. SYN. Calanthe viridi-fusca (B. M. 4669).