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Nat. Okukk— AM UIYLLII>E,'K*-Lindlki 



Hot Mag, 1043. 



Tub spathe is two or four flowered; the upper petal very much bent buck, ilu- 

 inferior opposite petal much narrower, and fttraighterj Hie tlirwit of the tube nut 

 nt all (ringed, Pistil and filaments decumbent, curving upwards towards their 

 extremities; the divisions* of the stigma strongly fringed, and becoming more 

 deeply trifid bm the flovrcr goes off; anthers pair yellow- Leaves broad, stiff, 



ribbed : SO Ih at the edtres, ami very rmmd at the extremities, liulb received 



by Mr* IIaiuuso.\ from Brazil : (lowers freely in the bark-stove. Dr, I > kksuo> 

 quotes the Flora IVnniauu 3 t p. o7. Air* 11 .: says tliis is a variety of 



Kiihfidu, and nut tin* Miniutn uf Kui/ and !*;u winch lias a bearded tube, 



a character which Ibis flower does not possess. The form of the leave*, and the 

 mauiicr of growth are liuwcvor very ilitferent from Fulifirfn- 



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