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* GEODORUM fucâtum. 
Painted Geodorum. 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. OncuipEx. Juss. $ VANDEm, Lindl. (Introduction to the 
Natural System of Botany, p. 262.) 
GEODORUM. Supra, vol. 8, fol. 675. 
G. fucatum ; scapo florifero foliis duplo breviore, spicâ pendulâ congestâ, 
labello gibboso ovato emarginato integerrimo : lineis duabus callosis ele- 
vatis. 
Folia e tubere subterraneo annulatim cicatrizato erumpentia, oblongo- 
lanceolata, acuta, plicata, pedem longa, scapo florifero duplo longiora, frugi- 
fero subequalia. Scapus radicalis, erectus, vaginatus, apice recurvus, et 
spicam ideo pendulam, partibus omnibus inversis, compactam, brevem gerens. 
Bractez lineares, acute, ovarii longitudine. Flores subcampanulati, magni- 
tudine et facie G. dilatati. Sepala /ineari-oblonga, acuta, rosea, apice paulu- 
lum recurva petalis paulo latioribus omnind conformia et parallela. Labellum 
06 spicam inversam, anticum, revera posticum, ovatum, concavum, subtus 
gibbosum, cum columna parallelum et continuum nec articulatum, integer- 
rimum, emarginatum ; roseum, venis lateralibus intensioribus pictum ; lineis 
duabus latis, elevatis, parallelis, contiguis, ochraceo-sanguineis, in medio. 
A single plant of this new species of Geodorum sent to 
the Horticultural Society from Ceylon by Mr. Watson, in 
1832, flowered in the Chiswick garden last July. It resem- 
bles G. dilatatum figured in tab. 675 of this work ; but has 
rather smaller flowers, and a very different labellum. 
It thrives in a hot, damp stove, but requires to be rested 
after its leaves have withered. 
Fig. 1. represents the labellum seen from above; fig. 2. 
the column and labellum after the other parts of the flower 
have been. removed. 
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