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Cycnocues LoppiceEsi; var. leucochilum. 
Mr. Loppices’ Swanwort; white-lipped var. 
KKK KKK KEKE EE EEE EK 
Class and Order. 
GynanpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipe. ) 
Generic Character. 
Perianthium explanatum. Sepala lateralia lanceolata, 
basi paululum sub labello connata; supremo angustiore. 
Petala \atiora falcata decurva. Labellum liberum, ecalca- 
ratum, columna continuum, lanceolatum, integerrimum, 
ungue abrupto calloso. Columna elongata arcuata teres, 
apice clavata, auriculis 2 falcatis ad latera clinandrii. An- 
thera bilocularis. Pollinia 2, postice sulcata, subpedicel- 
lata; caudicula lineari; glandula grossa.— Habitus Cataseti 
(sed racemus lateralis). Land. 
Specific Name and Character. 
Crcnocues* Loddigesii; labello lanceolato planiusculo 
ungue -brevi_ calloso, columna sepalum supremum 
eequante. 
(B.) leucochilum ; \abello immaculato. 
It is to Mr. Moss of Otterspool, Liverpool, that I am in- 
debted for the noble specimen of a white-lipped variety of 
the Cycnocnes Loddigesit of Dr. Linptry. The species is 
a native of Guiana, and may certainly be numbered among 
the most remarkable of this very remarkable tribe of plants, 
the Orcuipes, produced its large, fragrant blossoms = the 
stove, 
* So called by Professor LINDLEY, from nuxvas, & swan, and auyny, og 
neck, in allusion to the column of this plant, which 1s gracefully curved, 
like the neck of a swan. 
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