Tas. 5141. 
EVELYNA Caravara. 
Aublet s Lvelyna. 
Nat. Ord. OrcuipE#.—Gynanpria MonanpRiA. 
_ Gen, Char, Evetyna, Popp.—Perigonii foliola exteriora erecta, libera ; inte- 
rora subeequalia. Labellum cum pede column continuum, circa eandem convo- 
lutum,. obcordatum, basi saccata bicallosum, disco nndum. Columna ovario con- 
tinua, basi parum producta, semiteres, clavata, medio antice processu brevi aucta. 
Anthera terminalis, bilocularis, loculis incomplete quadriloculocellatis. Pollinia 
8, collateralia, basi quaternatim subcoherentia—Herbe Peruviane (America 
tropic) ; caulibus vaginatis, foliosis ; floribus spicatis v. subcapitatis, imbricato- 
bracteatis. Endl. : 
ap Caravata ; piloso-hispida, spicis capitatis, labelli lobo medio longe 
clilato. 
EvELyna Caravata. Lindl. Fol. Orchid. part 5. p. 9 (note under Sobralia). 
SERAPIAS Caravata. dubl. Guian. v. 2. p. 816. t, 320. 
Crmerproum hirsutum, Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p. 94. 
Sopratra? Caravata. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 177. 
Evtyna lepida. Rchb.f. (in Hambr. Gart. Zeit. 1859 °). 
It fell to the lot of the distinguished German traveller and. 
botanist Dr, Pceppig, to dedicate a genus of plants to om 
countryman John Evelyn, an eminent patriot of the pte oe 
century, and author of ‘Sylva; or a Discourse of Forest rors, 
and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty's Dominions ;° to 
Which is annexed ‘Pomona; or an Appendix concerning aT 
Trees, ag relating to Cider; and as a sequel to this wor : 
afterwards published his ‘Terra; a Philosophical ee we 0 
Earth, relating to the Culture and Improvement of it for ege- 
tation, and the Propagation of Plants.’ The first of these works 
alone would richly entitle him to this honour. _ - . 
The species which were selected, as belonging to this new 
genus, are five in number, all discovered by Dr. Poeppig — 
his Peruvian travels. Dr. Lindley, however, ascertained that oe 
first known species referrible to this genus was derived from t : 
eastern side of South America, the one here figured, a native o 
French Guiana, and well figured by Aublet: to this locality we 
OCTOBER Ist, 1859. 
