1778 
* MYANTHUS barbatus. 
Bearded Flywort. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORcHimEx $. VANDER. (Introduction to the Natural System 
of Botany, p. 262.) 
MYANTHUS.—Supra, vol. 1. fol. 1538. 
M. barbatus ; labello in pilis succulentis barbeformibus dissoluto basi supra 
unicorni. 
Caules vetusti fusiformi-cylindracei, 4-5-poll. longi, parum induviati, 
luteo-olivacei. Folia atroviridia, undulata, Cataseti, oblongo-lanceolata, 
versus basin angustata. Racemus radicalis, prostratus vel pendulus, flores 
9-10 inversos, i.e. labello quoad axin superiore gerens. Bracteæ lineari- 
lanceolate membranacee, pedicellis purpurascentibus breviores. Perianthium 
bilabiatum ; sepalis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis, herbaceis, fusco-sanguineo 
maculatis. Sepalum supremum, cum petalis in galeam agglutinatum ; late- 
ralia patentissima. Labellum cum columna subarticulatum, lineare, medio 
infractum et saccatum ; margine in fila tenuia alba numerosissima dissoluto, 
cristam avicule cujusdam simulantia ; cornu deorsum falcatum, candidum, 
basi superiore tridentotum gerens. Columna herbacea, fusco-sanguineo ma- 
culata, cornu apicis galee longitudine, cirrhis duabus rectis purpurascentibus 
apice pellucidis cornu labelli amplectentibus. Glandula maxima, cartilaginea, 
oblonga, stigmate cum vi elasticá dissiliens, et convoluta. 
This curious new species is a native of Demerara, near 
the falls of Wapopekai on the Massarony river, some 
hundreds of miles from its mouth, where it was found by 
Mr. John Henchman growing in the clefts of trees in shady 
situations. It was first sent us in February last by Mr. 
Lowe, with whoin it first lowered, but almost immediately 
after we received it from Chatsworth, and from the garden 
of Mr. Willmore, of Oldford, near Birmingham. The 
* See folio 1721. 
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