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GEODORUM dilatatum. 
Shovel-lip d Geodorum. 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDER. Brown prod. 1. 309. Sect. V. Anthera termi- 
minalis, mobilis, operculiformis, decidua. Pollinis mass cereaceze, leves. 
Parasitice, pauce Terrestres. Brown |. c. 330. 
GEODORUM. Jackson in Andrews's reposit. 626. Labellum cucul- 
lato-ventricosum (nunc basi calcaratum), sessile, cum columná non articu- 
latum... Petala conformia subsecunda. Masse pollinis 2, posticè lobulo 
auctæ. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 207. Plante (Indie orientalis, 
Nove Hollandiæ) terrestres. 
OBS. Genus MALAXIDI proximum babitü, nec multúm absimile struc- 
turà column» florisque expansione. Br. prod. 1. 332; sub fine observa- 
tionis CYMBIDIO picto (nunc in GEODORUM transponendum) appense. 
G. dilatatum, scapo foliis breviore, spicà pendulà: floribus congestis, la- 
bello subcalearato; apice dilatato crenulato. Brown in Hort. Kw. ed.2. 
5. 207. 
Limodorum recurvum. Roxburgh corom. 1. 33. t. 39. Swartz nov. act. 
ups. 6. 79. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 124. 
Terrestris, bulbo subrotundo, fibris crassis radicato. Fol. subtrina, 6- 
uncialia ad pedalia, erecta, lanceolata, latitudine 3-4-unciali, 5-nervia, 
basi vaginoso-complexa, laminá submembranaceá; scapus radicalis, extra 
foliaceus, erectus, virens, teres, cavus, glaber, 5-9-uncialis, foliis brevior, 
crassitie ferè penne seriptorie, foliis paucis (3?) vaginosis suprà in bracteas 
descrescentibus acuminatis instructus; superné reflexus. Racemus cernuus, 
multiflorus, imbricato-sparsus, subcapitato-abbreviatus: bracteæ lineari-lan- 
ceolate, germen equantes. Germ. sessile, rectum, viride, corollá brevius, 
rotundaté costatum. Cor. nutans, carneo-albicans, sublabiato-campanulata, 
semunciá vir longior: petala 5, concolora, in labium summum patulum im- 
bricato-convergentia, exteriora trina, sibi similia, cuneato-oblonga, dorso 
subcarinata, apiculo acuto: interiora bina duplo fermé latiora, sublongiora, 
pallidiora, teneriora, lineari-oblonga, plana, obtusata, dorso baseos carinato- 
gibbosa : labellum petalis exterioribus equilongum, roseo-pictum, rectum, la- 
tum, retusum, superne areolá interná luted calloso-incrassatá in disco promi- 
nulá notatum, infernè in ventrem oblique cavum convolutum, extüs supra 
ventrem scrobiculo utrinque impressum indeque carinatum, supra in laminam 
summam brevem patulam rotundato-retusam utrinque reflexam crenulatamque 
extensum; quoad axin spice interius. Columna libera, petalis 3-plo fer? 
brevior, ochroleuco-pallens, rectum, obovatum, cum brevi acumine, postice 
concaviusculum, anticè planiusculum curvulum: anth. operculiformis, oblato- 
rotunda, convexiuscula, lutea, acumini erecto columnæ postice inserta, 
decidua, extüs pruinosa (clinandrium cicatricibus binis puniceis sub siti 
loculorum pollinis conspicue notatum!). Stigma area cava secernens oblato- 
subrotunda columne concolora, anthere immediate subjectum, suprà margine 
prominulá cinctum. 
