( 3693 ) 
Carrieya GuTTata; 6. Russelliana. Srorrep 
Carrieya ; Lord Edward Russell’s var. 
Class and Order. 
GyYNANDRIA MOoNANDRIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuinez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Petala membranacea vel carnosa, patentia, equalia. Pe- 
tala sepits majora. Labellum cucullatum, columnam in- 
volvens, trilobum vel indivisum. Colwmna clavata, elon- 
gata, semiteres, marginata, cum labello articulata. Anthera 
carnosa, 4-locularis, septorum marginibus membranaceis. 
Pollinia 4, caudiculis totidem replicatis—Herbe epiphyte 
(Americane ) pseudo-bulbose. Folia solitaria vel bina, cori- 
acea. Flores terminales, speciosissimi, sepé e spatha magna 
erumpentes. Land. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Carrirya guttata ; floribus carnosis, sepalis lineari-lanceo- 
latis obtusis, petalis conformibus paulo, latioribus un- 
dulatis, labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus ovatis obtusis, 
intermedio cuneato obcordato disco tuberculato, foliis 
concavis, spatha obsoleta. Lindl. 
Cartieya guttata. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1406. 
(8.) Russelliana; elata, floribus subtriplo majoribus, sepa- 
lis petalisque intense fusco-viridibus. (‘Tab. nostr. 
3693.) 
This superb variety of a very handsome and uncommon 
Carrieya, was brought to the Woburn Collection from 
Brazil, together with many other rare South American 
vegetable productions, in the spring of 1838, by Capt. 
Lord Epwarp Russett, R. N., then commanding H. M. S. 
Actzon. It was given to that nobleman by the Director 
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