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DlNEMA POLYBULBON. MANY-BULBED 

 DlNEMA. 



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 Class and Order. 

 Gynandria Monandria. 



( Nat. Ord. — Orchide^. ) 

 Generic Character. 



Sepala et petala subaequalia, herbacea, patentia. Label- 

 lum majus, membranaceum, indivisum, unguiculatum, cum 

 basi columns accretum. Columna nana, bicornis. Anthera 

 bilocularis. Pollinia 4, per paria caudiculis duobus repli- 

 catis adnata. — Herba epiphyta, rhizomate repente annulato 

 pseudo-bulbifero. Folia coriacea. Flores solitarii, termi- 

 nates; pedunculo vaginato. Lindl. 



Specific Name and Synonyms. 



Dinema* polybulbon. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid, p. III. 

 Epidendrum polybulbon. Swartz, Fl. Jnd. Occ. p. 1491. 

 Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 112. 



This very pretty plant is a native of Jamaica, and, 

 according to Lindley, of Mexico ; and is a solitary species 

 of a Genus which Dr. Lindley separates from Epidendrum 

 and places near Isochilus, from which it chiefly departs 

 by its labellum being large, membranaceous, and extremely 

 different in appearance from the petals, and in these last 

 and the sepals being spread, not connivent. It is distin- 

 guished from Epidendrum by its short two-horned column. 

 Our figure was made from a specimen which bloomed in 

 the Botanic Gardens of Glasgow some years ago. 



Descr. 



So named by Dr. Lindley, I presume, from the two thread-like horns 



of the column 



