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* GRÓBYA Amhérstiz. 
Lady Amherst's Grobya. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Oncurpgz, $ Vannes, Lindl. (Introduction to the Natural 
System of Botany, p. 262.) 
GROBYA. Perianthium explanatum, bilabiatum. Sepala lateralia basi 
connata, sigmoidea, labello supposita, supremo erecto breviora. Petala dilatata, 
sepalo multo majora, erecta, conniventia. Labellum liberum, lobatum, nudum, 
cum basi columnz articulatum, ascendens, sepalis minus, (nanum). Columna 
erecta, semiteres, arcuata, basi incrassata ; antherá proclivi; stigmat fornicato. 
Pollinia 2, posticé lobata, caudiculis duabus brevibus glandule ovali adnatis. 
Herba Braziliensis, pseudobulbosa, foliis gramineis, racemo pendulo radicali. 
G. Amherstie. 
Pseudobulbi ovati, virides teretes, cicatricibus 1-9 Joliorum annulati. 
Folia 3-4 e vagina squamata, linearia, striata, acuta, debilia. Racemus 
pendulus, densus, 3 pollices longus, pseudobulbis duplo longior. Sepala pal- 
lide ochracea, unicolora. Petala maculis J'usco-purpureis seriatis notata. 
Labellum cuneatum, apice 5-lobum, lobo quinto ceteris exteriore, disco 
nudum, atropurpureum. Columna pallida, Jacie purpureo fasciata. 
1. Labellum. 2. Columna. 3. Pollinia cum glandulâ sud. 
For this curious species we are obliged to the Countess 
Amherst, in whose collection at Montreal it flowered for the 
first time in September last. It had been sent home by Mr. 
Hayne, a Commissioner in Brazil, from the interior of that 
country in 1829. To the pencil of Lady Sarah Amherst we 
are indebted for a sketch of the manner in which the plant 
grows. 
* The genus is named in compliment to the Right Honourable Lord Grey 
of Groby, a munificent patron of Horticulture, and a most zealous cultivator 
of Orchideous Epiphytes; the species records the sense we entertain of the 
claims of the noble family of Amherst upon the gratitude of Botanists, for the 
countenance afforded by them to natural history so long as their power continued 
in the Eastern world, 
