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RENANTHERA coccinea. 



Scarlet Air-Plant. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA 



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Nat. ord. ORCHiDEiE. S VandecB Lindl. > 



RENANTHERA Lour.— Pollinia duo postic^ biloba ; caudtculd medio 

 constricta, non elastica, glanduld triangular!. Anthera termmalis, oper- 

 cularis, decidua, uniloculaiis, postic^ bivalvis. Stigma subrotundum cavum ; 

 rostello obtuso. Columna aptera, libera, raargine anteriore super stig- 

 mate inflexo. Labellum nanum, sessile, liberum, cum columna articulatum, 

 3-lobum basi saccatum, lobis lateralibus erectis. &paia patentia, sub- 

 tequalia, basi distincta, unguiculata, spatulata, undulata.— Epiphyta (Chi- 

 nensis) caulescens, radicans, ramosa. Folia carnosa, avenia. Flores magm, 

 paniculatu 



R. coccinea. Loureiro Flora cochinchinensis 2. p. 521. . . , , . 



Caulis Imgus, scep^ 8-10-pedafts, radkibus paucis longxs, tortuosis, 



super arbor es V. sam decumbens, teres, foliosusbasxfoliorum vestigut 



I'Jlqinatus, paululum ramosus. Folia carnosa,, distu:ha, avema, plana, 



■ ' apke obliqu^ emarginata, atroviridia, sublucida, 4-5 uncias longa. Pa- 



nlcute laterales, laxcB, multifior<B, 2\ pedes long<B, ramxs i^rettbu, durts 

 } Bracteae breves, ovat<e, subcorrugat<.. Ovanum cran f«^««^«j^ J;!^» 



c^mtinuum, pallid^ coccineum, ^-sulcatum. Sei^^lti patenUa, bas^ hbera 

 non imbricata, caniosa ; 3 superiora lineana, erecta, mtermedw majore 

 Tpatulato, coccinea, maculis luteis nubilis fasciata ; 2 mfer.ora li u>^- 

 cialia superioribus longiora, dependentia, collateraha ^nguicujata^ '""^^ 

 lata, obtusa, medio abrupt^ undulata, coccinea, fasciis ?«*^«^^«^. ;j*«;^^" 

 valiidioribui Labellum nanum, 3 lineas tantum longum, mccatum cum 

 Tolumnd articulatum, trilobum, lobis lateralibus erectis ^runcit^^Jute^ 

 ooccineo marginatis et vittatis, intermedio lingwBformi, refiexo, <=occineo ,basx 

 . iuteo ; sacco conico, obtuso, intHs luteo, glabro, extks coccineo f ««^f '''Z^/; 



utrinque calloso. Columna coccinea, semiteres, ^^'^^' i'^9^^^tTc^.?Zn 

 antici lutea vittata, margine anteriore super stigmate inflexo J^^i^na <?xca. 

 vatum, subrotundum. Anthera terminalis, operculans <^trococcinea oUusa 

 unilocularis, postick semibivalvis. Pollinia duo, renxformxa, posxc^hloba, 

 glanduia trLngulari, caudicuia diaphanA vix elastica, medio constricta. 



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The work of the missionary Loureiro, pubhshed in 

 1790, a drawing in the possession of the Horticultural 

 Society of London, and the reports of some travellers who 

 liave visited China, have been, up to the present time, tbe 



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