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N ANODES* discolor. 



Purple Nanodes. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orchide;e Juss. § Vandeee Lindl. {Introduction to the 

 natural system of Botany, p. 265.) 



NANODES. — Perianthium ringens. Scpalum supremum fomicatum ; 

 lateralia labello supposita eoque basi connata. Petala sepalis lateralibus 

 conformia iisque subparallela, libera. Labellum carnosum, indi visum, cum 

 columna connatum (more Epidendri). Columna ad utrumque marginem 

 clinandrii alata. Anthera 2-locularis, rostrata. Pollinia 4, compressa, col- 



lateralia, in glandulam ovatam sessilia. Epiphyta humilis, ccespitosa, 



caulescens. Folia coriacea, disticha, vaginantia, approximata. Flores dis- 

 colores, in apice caulium sessiles, solitarii. 



Nanodes discolor. 



densd foli 



rolia ovato- oblong a y emarginata, bast amplexicaulia et vaginantia, inter- 

 nodiis duplb longiora, viridi-purpurea. Flores solitarii, sessiles, terminates, 

 obscure purpurei, inter folia immersi. Sepalum supremum ascendens, lineari- 

 oblo7igum 9 convexum ; petala declinata, cum sepalis lateralibus labello sup- 

 positis parallela. Labellum carnosum, ovatum, minutissimt crenulatum. 



A native of the woods near Rio Janeiro, whence it was 

 received, some years since, by the Horticultural Society. 

 Our drawing was made in the month of August 1829. 



Curious as are very many of the species of epiphytal 

 Orchideae, we do not remember one that is much more 

 remarkable than this, which possesses a habit quite its own. 

 Its flowers are so like the leaves from among which they 

 spring, and by which they are embosomed, that you would 

 scarcely discover the plant to be in flower even if every 

 branch was blossoming. 



We presume its cultivation should be that applied to 



* From rxwhs, pigmy- 



