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CYRTOCHILUM filipes. 
Thread-stalked Curvelip. 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. OrcHipacex, § VaANDE. 
CYRTOCHILUM. Botanical Register, vol. 19. fol. 1627. 
C. filipes ; Scapo longissimo simplici filiformi apice ipso paucifloro, sepalis 
petalisque lanceolatis conformibus acutis planis, labello cuneato bifido 
apice dilatato basi dente porrecto subsimplici subtuberculato aucto, 
columne alis minimis cuneatis truncatis, Bot. Reg. 1841, mise. 72. 
Pseudobulbi ovati, 2-3-phylli, basi etiam foliosi. Folia graminea, basi 
invicem vaginantia, vaginis in collum aggregatis, pedalia, racemo Jiliformi, 
8racilt, erecto, apice florido breviora. Scapus distanter vaginatus, internodiis 
sesquipollicaribus. Flores C. maculati facie, sed lutei. Sepala e¢ petala 
@qualia, lanceolata, planiuscula, tigrina. Labellum luteum, basi cuneatum 
integerrimum, apice dilatatum, subrotundum, bilobum, et subcrenatum. Crista 
elevata, anticd in cornu brevi producta, utrinque dente parvo aucta, adjectis 
tuberculis uno alterove inconspicuis. Columna cum labello angulum acutum 
Sormans, brevis, utrinque antice in aciem rotundatam producta, alis preterea 
minimis truncatis. 
A native of Guatemala, whence it was originally sent by 
Mr. Skinner to Mr. Bateman and others, and whence it has 
also been received by the Horticultural Society from Mr. 
Hartweg. In consequence of its colour being yellow it has 
the aspect of an Oncidium, from which genus it is distinguished 
by its labellum being narrowed to the base, where it forms an 
acute, not an obtuse, angle with the column. It has a ae 
slender stem, above two feet long, perfectly simple, on the 
extreme point of which are four or five flowers about the size 
of those of C. maculatum. 
Fig. 1. represents the column seen from the side, and 2. 
the base of the column with the peculiar crest. 
It is not necessary to keep this species in such a hot — 
48 some of the West Indian Orchidacee, but a temperature 
November, 1841, ¥ 
