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SCAPHYGLOTTIS VIOLACEA. VlOLET BoAT- 



Lip. 



Class and Order. 

 Gynandria Monandria. 



( Nat. Ord. — OrchidejE. ) 



Generic Character. 



Sepala conniventia, lateralia basi paulo producta cum 

 pede columnae connata labello supposita, supremum lineare 

 convexum. Petala conformia sed paulo breviora. Label- 

 lum oblongum canaliculatum cum pede paululum producto 

 columnae continuum eique parallelum, margine leviter re- 

 pandum. Columna marginata. Pollinia 4, teretia, in glan- 

 dulam cuneatam sessilia. — Herbae epiphyte, caulescentes, 

 nunc pseudo-bulbosce in axillis. Folia coriacea, angusta. 

 Flores parvi, axillares, pedunculis dense vaginatis. Lindl. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



scaphyglottis* violacea ; pseudo-bulbis elongatis cyliti- 

 draceo-attenuatis proliferis vaginatis, foliis binis line- 

 ari-lanceolatis, floribus solitariis subgeminisve, labello 

 oblongo trilobo, lobis omnibus obtusis. 



Scaphyglottis violacea. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1901. 



Clabodium violaceum. Lindl. Nat. Syst. Bot.f. 446. 



The Genus Scaphyglottis was established by Poeppig 

 and Endlicher, and five species enumerated, which are 

 natives of Peru. All are peculiar in habit. Most of 

 them have straggling stems, bearing pseudo-bulbs. S. 



conferta, 



So named by Poeppig and Endlicher, from ZkxQos, a boat, and 

 >>wtt«, a tongue, in allusion to the form of the labellum in some speciea. 



