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* DIPÓDIUM punctätum. 
Dotted Dipodium. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORcHIDACEZ, $ VANDEZ. 
DIPODIUM, R. Br. Periunthium patens, petalis sepalisque equalibus. 
Labellum subconforme, utrinque iufra medium auriculatum, disco barbatum, basi 
saccatum et cum columna connatum. Columna erecta, marginata, semiteres. 
Anthera membranacea, bilocularis? Pollinia 2, obliqué biloba, caudiculis 
duabus glandule communi affixis. Herbe terrestres, aphylle. Radix 
crassa, ramosa. Caules squamosi. Racemi speciosi. Gen. et sp. Orch. 186. 
D. punctatum; squamis radicalibus distantibus, labello recto disco pubescente. 
Ibid. 186. 
D. punctatum. R. Brown prodr. 331. 
Dendrobium punctatum. Smith exot. bot. 1. 21. t. 12. 
Radix fibrosa ; fibris quibusdam horizontalibus, crassis, succulentis. 
ceteris filiformibus perpendicularibus. Caulis fusco-purpureus, glaber, 
teres, 13-2-pedalis, distanter vaginatus, squamis brevibus obtusis. Race- 
mus cylindraceus, laxus; pedunculis leté purpureis subhorizontalibus. 
Perianthium Jusco-purpnreumi maculis sanguineis conspersum i sepalis peta- 
lisque linearż-oblongis subequalibus. Labelum oblongum, triżobum, basi 
pubescens sulco exaratum, saccatum, cum basi columna breviter connatum, 
trilobum ; lobis lateralibus angustis falcatis recurvis disco pilosis, intermedio 
oblongo, plano, apiculato, basi angustato, disco villoso. Columna erecta, 
semiteres, truncata, margine glandulosa; clinandrio denticulato ; "Prep 
brevi, transverso. Pollinia duo, postice exarata, caudiculis binis: glandu 
sublunate affixis. ^ 
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A most curious, leafless, terrestrial Orchidaceous plant, 
with thiek fleshy fibrous o spotted flowers ; 
for which I have to thank the inexhaustible collection of the 
Messrs. Loddiges. Ob 
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