Tab. 5357. 



CORYSANTHES limbata. 



White-edged Corgsanthes. 



Nat. Ord. ORCHIDEiE. — Gynandria Monandria. 



Gen. Char. Perianthium ringens. Sepalum supremum, magnum, galeatum; 

 lateralia basi connata, brevia v. elongata, nunc filiformia. Labellum amplum, 

 cucullatum v. tubulosum. Cohimna brevis, solida. Antliera 1-locularis, semi- 

 bivalvis, persisteus. Pollinia 4, oblonga. — Herbse perpusillce, glabrae, teneres, 

 radice tuberosa. Folium solitarium, ovatum, basi cordatum, membranaceum, inte- 

 grum v. lobatum. Flos solitarius, magnus, subsessile, luride rufus v. purpureus. 



Corysanthes limbata; folio ovato-cordato acuminato venis albis reticulata, 

 bractea ovato-lauceolata acuminata, sepalo postico late lineari apice sub- 

 dilatato truncato 3-dentato, lateralibus petalisque anguste bneari-subulatis 

 labellum longe superantibus, labello basi convoluto lamina expansa orbicu- 

 lata eroso-dentata purpurea albo-limbata. 



This perfect gem and most interesting novelty was introduced 

 from Java, and flowered by Mr. William Bull, in his Nursery, 

 King's Road, Chelsea, last October, and is decidedly the most 

 exquisite little plant of its size that ever came under our notice : 

 it is, indeed, impossible in a lithograph to do justice to the trans- 

 parence of its stem, the vivid green and white of its delicate un- 

 dulated and variegated leaf, or the sparkling beauty of its ame- 

 thystine flowers. As a botanical curiosity, it derives a double 

 interest from being the first authenticated instance of the genus 

 flowering in this country, and from the fact of the late Mr. 

 Salisbury having figured a species in his ' Paradisus' (tab. 83), 

 under the name of Corybas, professedly from a cultivated spe- 

 cimen, but which, as Mr. Brown in his ' Prodromus' (p. 328) 

 insinuates, was described and figured either from memory or 

 from Bauer's drawings, to which Mr. Salisbury had access, but 

 to which he made no allusion. 



Descr. A small, glabrous, delicate, translucent, one-leaved 

 and one-flowered herb. Leaf ovate-cordate, acuminate, bright 



JANUARY 1ST, 1863. 



