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STENORHYNCHUS cinnabarınus. 
Cinnabar Stenorhynchus. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORcHIDACEE.  (Oncuips, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 173.) 
STENORHYNCHUS, Rich. Flores ringentes, cylindracei. Sepala 
colorata basi gibba ; dorsale petalis agglutinatum ; lateralia labello supposita 
et basi in saccum connata. Labellum anticum, apice angustatum, basin 
versus dilatatum, columnam amplectens eique agglutinatum, basi ipsa intus 
séepius biconvexum, callis orbatum. Columna teres, elongata, in pedem cui 
labellum annectitur extensa; stigmate prominente ovato; rostello subulato 
corneo persistente. Anthera dorsalis, acuminata, bilocularis ; clinandrio 
utrinque marginato aut alato. Pollinia 2, pulverea, bipartita, glandule 
linearis ope colligata. Herba terrestres radicibus fasciculatis. Folia radi- 
calia, raro caulina, lata, nunc hysteranthia. Scapus laze vaginatus. Spice 
imbricate, dense, bracteis magnis coloratis. Flores sepius pubescentes speciosi. 
Lindl. gen. & sp. Orch. p. 476. 
S. cinnabarinus (Lindl. gen. & sp. Orch. p. 479; Neottia cinnabarina, Llave 
nov. veg. p. 3); foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis, scapo piloso, spicä 
conico-thyrsoideá compacta, bracteis lanceolatis subherbaceis floribus 
pilosis brevioribus, sepalis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis apice 
patentibus, labello conformi glabro basi angustato canaliculato. 
For the knowledge of this rare plant we are indebted to 
Messrs. Loddiges, who received it from Mexico, and flowered 
it in July last. 
According to Messrs. Llave and Llexarza, the species 
rows in various places in the west of Mexico, where it is 
called by the country people Cutsis. 
The dull olive green of the bracts belonging to its large 
compact spike, the vermilion red of the flowers externally, 
and the bright yellow of the inner face of their narrow 
spreading points give them an appearance unusually gay 
among these terrestrial species. 
Fig. 1. represents the column, with the lip forced down- 
wards so as to shew its inner face; right and left are two 
marginal scars shewing where the lip grows to the column. 
December, 1847. 2 A 
