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CatTrLeva Mosstm Mrs. Moss’s Supers 
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KEKE EKER EEK KEREE EER 
Class and Order. 
GynanpriA Monanpri. 
(Nat. Ord.—Onrcuipez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Sepala membranacea vel carnosa, patentia, equalia. Pe- 
tala sepius majora. Labellum cucullatam, columnam in- 
volveus, trilobum vel indivisum. Colwmna clavata, elongata, 
semiteres, marginata, cum labello articulata. Anthera car- 
nosa, 4-locularis, septorum marginibus membranaceis. 
Pollinia 4, caudiculis totidem replicatis —Herbe epiphyte, 
(Americane ) pseudo-bulbose. Folia solitaria vel bina cori- 
acea. Flores terminales, speciosissimi, sepe e spatha mag- 
na erumpentes. Lindl. 
Specific Name and Character. 
Carrieya Mossie ; caule elongato ramoso pseudo-bulbi- 
fero, pseudo-bulbis oblongis sulcatis, floribus giganteis 
speciocissimis, sepalis lanceolatis, petalis elliptico-ova- 
tis unguiculatis marginibus oblique crispatis, labello 
latissimo obovato intus flavo oblique coccineo-stri- 
ato, ungue in tubum superne acutissimum condupli- 
cato, limbo bilobo pulcherrime crispato crenulato. 
We wish our plate could do justice to this most magni- 
ficent of all Orchideous plants. The flowers are very con- 
siderably the largest yet known in any of this superb family ; 
the colour is equally striking, with which no art of the 
pencil can attempt to vie, and we may add that the fragrance 
1s most powerful, resembling that of GyMNADENIA conopsea, — 
but it is much stronger. The diameter of this splendid — po 
flower is, from the tip of the upper sepal to the tip of the 
rom the tip pper sep nian 
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