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PLEUROTHALLIS* prolífera. 
Proliferous Pleurothallis. 
inizino 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Orcuıpez. $ Malaxidee Lindley. * Pleurothallee. 
PLEUROTHALLIS. — Supra, vol. 9. fol. 759. 
P. prolifera; caule ancipiti, folio oblongo cochleato carnoso prolifero 
racemo duplò longiore, bracteis cuneatis cuspidatis cucullatis pedicello 
brevioribus, sepalis conniventibus lateralibus semiconnatis petalis labello- 
que conformibus dupló longioribus, clinandrio dentato. — Lindley Gen. 
and Sp. of Orchideous Plants, part 1. ined. 
P. prolifera. Herbert in litteris. 
Epiphyta, caulibus imonophyllis, flexuosis, palmaribus, basi teretibus, 
apice compressis obtusè‘marginatis. Folia crassa, carnosa, avenia, cucullata, 
ovato-oblonga, acuta, semper prolifera. Racemus simplex, brevis, ex azilld 
folii in cujus sinu recumbit, pauciflorus, folio brevior, basi squamis paucis, 
scariosis, acutis ; rachis flexuosa ; bractee solitarie, membranacee, herbacee, 
cucullate. Flores lurido-purpurei, intüs punctati, breve pedunculati. 
Ovarium brevissimum, turbinatum. Sepala carnosa, conniventia, acu- 
minata, basi connata, lateralibus semicoherentibus, Petala linearia, acu- 
minata, columna longitudine. Labellum lanceolatum, integerrimum, sepalis 
paulo brevius. Columna clavata, semiteres. Clinandrium alatum, denticu- 
latum.  Anthera bilocularis.  Pollinia 2, teretia, basi materie pulvered 
coherentia. 
For this curious plant we are indebted to the Honourable 
and Rev. William Herbert, by whom we were favoured 
with specimens in January last. Mr. Herbert informs us, 
that it was found at Boto Fogo, near Rio Janeiro, growing 
on a steep rock, which the sun could rarely shine upon. 
At Spofforth it flowers six or seyen months in the 
year, producing successive racemes year after year. It 
* So named from rAsvez, a side or rib, and Farra, to flower; in allusion, 
we presume, either to the one-sided disposition of the flowers of some 
species, or to the developement of the inflorescence from what appears to 
be the rib of the leaves. 
