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* SCAPHYGLÓTTIS violácea. 
Violet Boatlip. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORcHIDACEA, $ VANDER. 
SCAPHYGLOTTIS. Pöppig et Endlicher Nova Genera et Species 
Plantarum, 1. 58. Sepala conniventia, lateralia basi paulo producta cum pede 
column connata labello supposita, supremum lineare convexum. Petala con- 
formia sed paulo breviora. Labellum oblongum canaliculatum cum pede paulu- 
lum producto columnz continuum eique in parallelum, margine leviter repandum. 
Columna marginata. Pollinia 4. teretia, glandulam cuneatam sessilia.—— 
Herbz epiphyte, caulescentes, nunc pseudobulbose in axillis. Folia coriacea, 
angusta. Flores parvi, axillares, pedunculis dense vaginatis. 
S. violacea; pseudobulbis nullis, foliis linearibus apice emarginatis, floribus 
subgeminis, labello lineari apiculato leviter repando. 
Cladobium violaceum. Lindl. Nat. syst. of Botany, p. 446. 
Caules teretes, striati, articulati, verosimiliter penduli, ad nodos proli- 
feri. Folia 2-3 poll. longa, linearia v. lineari-lanceolata, emarginata, fortê 
im pseudobulbos insidentia dum planta vegetior pullulat. Flores minuti, 
violacei, pedunculis dense vaginatis brevissimis, geminati. Sepala lateralia 
basi producta et obliqua, supremo lineari duplo latiora. Petala supremo 
conformia, sed paulo breviora et minis colorata. Labellum album, cum basi 
leviter producto columne, continuum, carnosum, canaliculatum, lineare, 
apiculatum, apice purpurascens, margine leviter repandum ideoque subtrilo- 
bum. Columna semiteres, alba, apice utrinque unidentata. Pollinia 4, dis- 
tincta, teretia, in glandulam triangularem sessilia. . 
A native of Demerara, whence it was imported by Messrs. 
Loddiges. It is not a species of any beauty, but it is a great 
Botanical rarity, flowering in the Orchideous stove in 
February. 
* Exapos a boat, and yAwrra a tongue, in allusion to the usual form of the 
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