198-191 b 
* PRESCÓTTIA colórans. 
Purplish Prescottia. 
* „U /GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEA, $ NEOTTIER. 
PRESCOTTIA. Lindl. Sepala reflexa, basi paululum connata. Pe- 
tala minora, reflexa aut erecta. Labellum erectum, posticum, cucullatum, car- 
nosum, integerrimum. Columna nana, teres, aptera, libera, clavata. Anthera 
opercularis, rotundata, loculis completis divaricatis, connectivo carnoso. Stigma 
obtusum. Pollinia 4, Se \ D 
S 
P. colorans ; folio săliarib ovato- oblongo: acuminato basi ¢ucullato petioli longi- 
tudine, spicá derisä cylindraceá, petalis subulatis ascendentibus. 
Scapus bipedalis, CU 2 
die —- 
A native of Brazil, A it was imported by Messrs. 
Loddiges. The drawing was made in January 1834. 
plant, growing readily in sandy 
It is a stove herbaceou 
on, ‘and then dying down for the 
peat, flowering in its 
remainder of the year. 
Little is asget known «bot t the species of this genus; the 
following certainly belong to it, besides P. plantaginea. 
L P. stachyodes. ==Cranichis stachyodes. ' Pr Prodr. 3. 1437. 
i E ps petiölo brevioribus, 
ue revolutis. Peru 
m P. plantaginea by 
2. P. petiolaris ; foliis latis ovato-lanc 
spicà densissimà elongatà mi 
Mathews (No. 1875). 
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