1618 



SAUROGLOSSUM* datum. 



Tall Lizard's Tongue. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA 



Nat. ord. Orchide*. § Neottieee Lindl. (Introduction to the natural 



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



SA UROGLOSSUM. — Perianthium connivens, sepalis lateralitms "- 

 nearibus, arcuatim patentibus, basi in ovarium decurrentibus. Labeiium 

 anticum, lineare, canaliculatum, ecallosum, basidilatatum.CofMff.no 

 elongata, semiteres, basi producta, apice subspatulata ; chnandrio decim 

 immarginato, rostello ovato. Pollinia 2, biloba, caudicula brevissima.— 

 Herbal terrestres (Americse eequinoctialis) foliis radkahbus, flonbus racemosis 

 herbaceis scavo insidentibus . radicibus carnosis fasciculatts. 



S. elatum. 



f* 



suberecta, carnosa, plicis nullis, scapo 3-plb breviora. Scapus J^"*'/j™ 

 o ~i.ul — i ... .•- Mi**.;* viriAibus distantibus vaatnalus. Ka- 



/« 



cemus pedalis et ultra, densus, cylindraceus. Bracte* canaUcuiat^ suuu- 

 ir.*„ /ZL_ A-a ; ~*..iul Ovarium vubescens. Perianthium cylin 



florum ft 

 draceo- 



aptcem 



uraceo-convolutum, sepans mriuwus w»™ ~ ---/ ,,.„• , m7 ji «/,/;,,,,» 



oribus, superiori petalis agglutinato, lateralibns arcuaUs bast vadi oblyuts 

 antice paululilJ sub labello connatis. Labeiium album, ^ ^£f 



« nl.^ iz u,..lnt, in , sessile, bast ecallosum, pauld dtlatatum, 



/^-i..~„« i;hi>*n flnnp-ata. semi- 



medio pubescens, apice ovatum, dilatatum. 



tor^r. ll~y 1 i~ „„,'„„ niwifrl fitlO"m 



teres 

 bifid 



■diformi 



caudicula 6revi, glandula ovali. 



For the specimen from which our *»*<«**!. new 



Orchideous plant has been taken, we are in«w» " • 



Arnold Harrison, who obligingly communicated .t in March 



• So named from «** a B-J I ^Ll"luLf lhTS« may 



C*!5*5 ma ? be 'J^J" '^nSsaurian., aad .he «paU to ,h«a 



modern 



