/ YOR, xr. 
( 3563) 
Acrorprera Loppicesit. Mr. Loppigces’ 
ACROPERA. 
KKK KE KEKE KEE KEE EERE EEE 
Class and Order. 
GynanpriA MonanpriA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuivez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Sepala patentia, supremum galeatum, lateralia divaricata. 
Petala nana, obliqua, apice truncata, subpatentia. Label- 
lum wnguiculatum, cum basi columne elastice articulatum, 
trlobum, lobo intermedio minore saccato. Colwmna erec- 
ta, marginata, basi saccata. Pollinia 2, linearia, convoluta, 
caudicula lineari-subulata, glandula minuta, Rostellwm 
subulatum.—Epiphyta, racemis cernuis multifloris, vegeta- 
fone Maxillaria Colacis. Lindl. | 
Specific Name and Synonyms. 
Acroprra * Loddigesii. 
AcropEra Loddigesii. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 172. 
AXILLARIA galeata. Lindl. in Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1645. 
(ees 
_ Avery singular Epiphytous Orchideous plant, introduced 
to the stoves of this country from Xalapa of Mexico by 
'. Grorce Loppiges, whence Dr. Linpxey has been led 
to distinguish it by his name: a compliment which that 
iberal and able Horticulturist well merits. The habit of 
© plant is quite peculiar: the racemes are quite pendent, 
and in the state of bud and after the first expansion, the 
ong and regularly decurved ovaries are arranged in three 
rows. 
SS 
* The name is probably derived from axgos, the extremity, and sega be- 
» from the little saccate appendage at the apex of the labellum. 
E 
