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CRYPTARRHENA lunata. 
Crescent-lipped Cryptarrhena. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Orcuivex. Jussieu gen. 64. Brown prod. 309. 
Div. IV. Anthera terminalis mobilis decidua. Masse pollinis 
demüm cereacez. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 905. 
CRYPTARRHENA. Petala 5, distincta patentia. Labellum 
ecalcaratum : lamina dilatata esplanata. Columna libera, aptera. An- 
thera apice cucullato columnæ inclusa, porrecto-adscendens. Mass 
pollinis quatuor. Brown MSS. 
Cryptarrhena lunata. Brown MSS. 
Herba humilis. Folia radicalia numerosa, multifariâm ambientia, pa- 
tentia, crassiuscula, carnosa, remotiùs nervosa, exteriora recumbentia, sub- 
ovato-lanceolata, acuminata, subtriuncialia, lætè virentia, interiora erectiora, 
lineari-lanceolata. Caulis longior istis, striato-teres, crassitudine penne 
corvine, inferné jfeliolis aucis Dc IN erectis vag? stipatus. Spica 
subbiuncialis, inclinata, hairs digesta, nuda. Flores viridi-lutei, vix tertiam 
partem uncie transverst. 
We had not the opportunity of inspecting the flower of 
this plant after the drawing was made; but to the greater | 
advantage of Botany, Mr. Brown has had that opportunity. 
He has found it au unrecorded vegetable, aud to possess 
features so distinct from those already known of the tribe, 
as to make it expedient that it should form the foundation 
of a new generic group. 
All we know of its history is, that it was lately received 
by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, of the Hammersmith nursery, 
from Jamaica, and that it flowered in one of their hothouses 
in the course of last summer. 
A humble herbaceous species; and, judging by analogy, 
probably parasitic. Leaves radical, — zi a of 
multifariously patent, fleshy, thickish, meg vd ME 
a bright grass-green colour: outer recum es broa of ; " 
ceolate, and somewhat ovate, acuminate, ria par in ' 
inch across, almost three inches in length; inner more up 
