Tas. 423]. 
PINGUICULA orcuIpDIoIDEs. 
Orchis-like Butterwort. 
Nat. Ord. LENTIBULARIE®.—DIANDRIA Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx bilabiatus, labio superiore 3-fido v. 3-partito, altero bifido v. 
bipartito. Corolla bilabiata aut rarius subregularis, labio ante florationem supe- 
riore bifido y. bipartito, inferiore trifido v. tripartito majore basi calcarato, lobis 
integris v. dentatis: palato sepius maculato et villoso nunc gibbo. Stamina 
geminata, arcuata, corolla multo breviora, antheris approximatis, unilocularibus, 
globosis, vertice rima dehiscentibus. Pollen ovoideo-globosum. Ovariwm ovoi- 
deum. Stigma sessile bilobum, lobo inferiore (id est, labio majori et staminibus 
opposito) plano rotundato fimbriato, supra antheras revoluto, superiore lanceolato 
minimo, sepe abortiente. Placenta centralis libera stipitata. Ovula numerosa. 
Capsula erecta, sepius ovoidea, valvis duabus lateralibus dehiscens. Semina 
numerosa, oblonga, minutissima, rugosa, extremitate angustiori affixa—Herbe 
parve perennes in paludosis et humidis hemispherici borealis extra tropicum et 
Americe merid. presertim in montibus habitantes ; foliis omnibus rosulatis integerri- 
mis, sessilibus v. brevissime petiolatis, glabris v. glanduloso-pilosis, margine plerumque 
involutis sepe pinguibus ; scapis 1-3, unifloris, nudis. DC. 
Pineurcuna orchidioides ; foliis biformibus extus parvis erectiusculis imbricatis 
copiosis ovatis acutis interioribus paucioribuslaxis patentibus obovato-spathu- 
latis obtusis concavis, scapo superne calyceque pubescentibus, corolle bila- 
biate lobis subsequalibus obovatis retusis patenti-reflexis, tubo brevissimo, 
calcare vorrecto curvato cylindraceo-acuminato, ovarlo villoso. 
Pineuicuna orchidioides. Alph. De Cand. Prodr. v. 8. p. 27. 
Among the many interesting objects, to be seen at the Royal 
Gardens of Kew during the latter part of the present winter, 
(1845-6) was a number of pots of this most lovely species of Pin- 
guicula in full blossom, plunged in Sphagnum and other mosses, 
in cool stoves, where they flourished as well as if they had been 
in their native mountains of Mexico. Living roots were sent to 
us by Mr. Repper, from the Real del Monte, which as soon as 
planted, began to exhibit the two forms of leaves here repre- 
sented, the upper, or inner ones, almost resembling those of an 
Echeveria. ; 
Descr. Root perennial. Leaves of two kinds; outer, or lower 
ones, small, numerous, closely imbricated, ovate, acute, the apex 
MAY Ist, 1846, 
