Tab. 4a34. 
MALACHADENIA clavata. 
Club-stalked MalacJiadenia. 
Nat. Ord. Orchide^.—Gynandria Monandria, 
Gen. Char. Flos resupinatus. Sepala lateralia connata, apice reflexa libera, 
galeam formantia; dorsale cordatum acuminatum. Fetala minima, squamse- 
formia, rotundata. Lahellum caraosum, margine revolutum, basi miicronatum, 
cum pede elongate columnse sepalis lateralibus galeatis adnatas articulatura. 
Columna antice bicirrhosa, basi longe producta, stigmate lineari-oblongo. An- 
thera bilocularis decidua. Pollinia 2, cereacea, sessilis, glandula moUi, cubica, 
nuda.—Herba repens^ pseudo-bulbis ^nonophyllis, scapo radicali, floribus carnosis 
galeatis. Lindl. 
Malachadenia clavata. 
Malachadenia clavata. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1839. Misc.p. 67. m. 110. 
A Rio plant, in the collection of Mr. Bateman, where it bloomed 
first in 1839, (when Dr. Bindley described it as a new genus, 
Malachadenia, from the soft nature of the gland of the pollen- 
masses), and again in 1847, when we received from that gentle¬ 
man the flowering specimen here represented. The author speaks 
of its place among Vandece as doubtful; but to me the plant 
appears, both in habit and structure of the flowers, so close to 
Holhophyllum, that I do not see how it can be separated. The 
locality given would seem to militate against such an opinion, 
Bolbophyllum having for a long time been considered peculiar to 
the Old World, but Bolhophjllum recurvum is now announced 
by Dr. Bindley (in Bot. Reg. 1844, Miscel. p. 72) as a native of 
South America as well as of Sierra Beone. Be that as it may, 
the"plant is a very singular one, though it has little beauty to 
recommend it, and Mr. Bateman remarks, “it is the only epi¬ 
phytal Orchideous plant I know which emits a positive stench, 
and that too at all hours by night and day. In the stove it 
resembles the foulest carrion.” It was first imported by Mr. 
Hooper of Bambeth. 
Descr. Bhizoma creeping, bulbiferous. Pseudo-bulbs oblong- 
ovate, solitary, curved, clothed with a membranous sheath, an 
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