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CYRTOPODIUM * Woodfdrdii. 



Woodford's Cyrtopodium. 



GYNANDRIA MOKANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orchide* Juss. Sect. Vande* Lindl. (Introduction to 



the natural system of Botany, p. 262.) , 



CYRTOPODIUM. — Labellum ungue geniculate; lamina d-partita. 



Petafa 5, distincta. Mass* points 2 postice bilobae. - if. Brown in Hort. 

 Kew. 5. 216. 



Woodfi 



secundis, petalis oblongis conniventibus brevionbus, labello ba SI saccato . 

 lobis lateralibus rotundatis intermedio emarginato basi bicorni. 



C. Woodfordii. Bot. mag. 1814. . ,~ _ ,___ 



Caulis 2-3-pedalis,fusiformis, carnosus, succoscatens viscido ad calceos 



agglutinandos utili. Folia &asi vaginantia, P 1 ""^* 1 *?™'*^ 

 pedalia, plicata, glabra. Scapus radica lis, 2-o-pedahs teres, sguam^ 

 elongatis plicatis vaginatus. Racemus elongatus, ™ff ™)' B ™J}SS 

 subidato-lanceolatce, ovario longiores. Sepala a»^ /aw< *£ "' £™f 

 tWea, secunda. Petala femora, rmdi-/«^a, oblonga, obius^ erecta 



apice conniventia. Labellum 6<m Uvidurn, apice ^^'^"JV^S 



cLm, 6<m saccafum, 3-fofe*«, /oft* fofera**™ 7^'"^ , ' ,II/W ' 



intermedio obtuso, undulato, emarginato, disco glanduloso basi bicorni. 



Of G 



This beautiful plant is a native of the »^fj™d«d 



and of Brazil, where it grows n shady damp 



™tin* among the mass of decayed vegetable so, 

 wuo wh eh tlfe earth'is thiekly covered in -*£"£* 

 is easily cultivated in a good stove, but very seldo ™ flowers. 



The specimen from which the »f° m ^ D fc fc^ 

 taken, was produced in the G^^JKT 

 Society, io September last, npnr nM sen t from R 



Janeiro bv the fc«*t Hon. Robert Gordon. It is increas 

 bv the °8eperation of the thick spindle-shaped stems with 

 KnXSng Rhizoma arched, or even by cutting 



• So called from **, curved, and -^^ a foot; in allusion to the 



curved 



