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MYANTHUsS sPINOsSUS. SPINE-BEARING 
FLy-wort. 
KKK KEK KKK KKK KEKE KESE 
Class and Order. 
GyNANDRIA MonanpriA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Onrcuipez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Perianthium explanatum. Sepala libera, equalia, late- 
ralibus paululum adscendentibus. Petala conformia, an- 
gustiora, sepalo supremo supposita. Labellum planum, 
obovatum, tridentatum, sepalis brevius. Columna erecta, 
teres, basi bicirrhosa, postice ad cardinem anthere longe 
producta, Anthere et pollinia Cataseti—Epiphyta, Cata- 
seti omnino vegetatione. Lindl. 
Specific Name and Character. 
Myanruus spinosus ; petalis versus apicem serratis, labelli 
_ Infra medium saccati margine pilis tenuibus succulentis 
albis pe as fimbriato apice anguste attenuato recurvo 
supra basin spina tripartita infra apicem spina 
magna dentata porrecta. 
This new Myanraus is one of the very few Orcuipex 
which rewarded Mr. Garpner’s researches in the Province 
of Ceara in the interior of Brazil. “Cacrez,” he says in 
his Journal, (see Ann. of Nat. Hist. v. 3. p. 334,) “ are 
very scarce here ; I have met with but four species, all of 
them similar to those that I had already despatched to 
England from the Rio San Francisco. Orcuwex are still 
more rare. T'wo kinds only can I find to send home alive, 
but of both you will receive an abundant supply ; they are 
the Onciprum already mentioned and the Errrnyre that 
grows on the Catolé. The latter of these I have not seen 
in flower, it being in a dormant leafless state at this season. 
The general appearance is that of a Caraserum, and I have 
no 
