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TRIBRACHIA pendula. 
Drooping Tribrachia. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Orchide^. Tribus Malaxidese Lindt, coll. bot. in app. 
TRIBRA CHI A. Suprd, t. 832.— Pollinia duo cereacea posticfc sulcata: 
caudicula et glandula nullis. Anthera terminalis, opercularis, decidua, semi- 
bilocularis membranacea. Columna apice bicirrhosa. Labellum posticum, 
integrum, cum basi product^. column® unguiculatum. Sepala patentia: late- 
ralibus exterioribus cum basi column® connatis; interioribus nanis. - 
Herb® epiphytes, acaules, bulboses (Asi® temperate et Africee eequinoctialis); 
caudicibus reptantibus; scapis radicalibus ; floribus parvis.• Lindley collect, 
bot. tab. 41, A. 
T. pendula; foliis ovalibus subtils discoloribus apice ineequalibus emarginatis 
in bulbis ovatis compressis solitariis, scapis pendulis, spicis imbricatis, 
sepalis ovatis acuminatis: interioribus obovatis. Lindl. 1. c. in textu. 
Bulbi ovati, camosi, subteretes. Folia solitaria, 2-3-uncialia, ovalia, 
'patentia , apice obliqub emarginata^arnosa, plana, subtils purpureo maculata. 
Scapi radicales, penduli, bracteis distantibus angustis acutis squamosi. 
Flores in spied quadrifaridm imbricati, parvi, recti. Bractese fiorurn longi- 
tudine, ovatce, acuminates, diaphanes, rubicundee. Ovarium breve, rectum, 
turbinatum, ecostatum. Perianthium regulare, patens, ovario longius. Sepala 
exteriora esqualia, triangularia, acuta, valvata, enervia, viridia, ciliata. 
lateralia basibus cum columnes pede connatis; interiora abbreviata, qfwvata, 
pallidb viridia, obtusa. Labellum parvum, rubro-purpureum, ovatum, integer- 
rimum, per axin camosum, basi excavatum, cum sinu sepalorum lateralium 
exteriorum articulatum, in columnd incumbens. Columna brevis, recta, 
semiteres, ad basin producta usque ad sinum sepalorum exteriorum later¬ 
alium. Stigma excavatum, marginibus injlexis semiclausum, apice utrinque 
aristatum. Anthera terminalis, opercularis, persistens, ut credo 1 -locularit. 
Pollinia duo, subrotunda; quodque intus sulco exaratum obscuro, lobum mi- 
norem simulante. Caudicula et glandula nulla. 
Sent to the Horticultural Society in 1822, from Sierra 
Leone, by Mr. George Don. Our drawing was made at 
Mr. Colvill’s nursery in October 1824. Like nearly all the 
epiphytal orchideous plants of Sierra Leone, this plant is 
YOL. XII. c 
