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BROMHEADIA. palustris. 
Marsh Bromheadia. 
e — 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEÆ. $ VANDER. 
BROMHEADIA, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841. misc. 184. Sepala et 
petala subsequalia patentissima. Labellum cucullatum, trilobum, cum co- 
lumná omninó parallelum, basi inarticulatum, secus axin elevatum pubescens. 
Columna latè alata, carnosa, elongata. Anthera 2-locularis, dorso conica, 
cum columnä articulata. Pollinia 2, reniformia, posticé excavata, in glan- 
dulam latam, triangularem, membranaceam sessilia.——Herba caulescens, 
ebulbis. Folia disticha, coriacea, emarginata. Spica terminalis, disticha, 
flexuosa, multiflora, long? pedunculata, bracteis brevissimis rigidis, dentiformi- 
bus. Flores speciost, recti. 
Bromheadia palustris, Lindl. l.c. Hooker. Bot. Mag. t. 4001. 
Grammatophyllum ? Finlaysonianum, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. no. 7561. Gen. 
& Sp. Orch. p. 173. 
We formerly introduced this curious plant to our readers 
with a few observations which we beg permission to repeat, 
with some corrections. 
‘s When Mr. Finlayson was in the Malay archipelago, he 
found a curious Orchidaceous plant at Sincapore with the 
habit of Epidendrum elongatum ; and from specimens of it, 
almost destroyed by insects, which I examined some years 
since in Dr. Wallich's herbarium, I referred it with great 
doubt to Grammatophyllum, under the name of G. ? Finlay- 
sonianum, (Gen. & Sp. Orch. t. 178.) This plant has flowered 
at Penllergare in South Wales with J. D. Llewelyn, Esq. who 
received it from Cuming, with the memorandum that it had 
been * dug out of a bog in Sumatra." Having now had the 
advantage of examining a perfect specimen in flower, I find 
that although nearly allied to Grammatophyllum, it is in fact 
very distinct. I therefore avail myself of the opportunity of 
adding to the list of genera the name of Sir Edward Ffrench 
Bromhead, Bart. F.R.S. whose investigations of the natural 
affinities of plants are well known to systematical Botanists." 
