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Cuysis AUREA. GOLDEN-FLOWERED CnhysIs. 
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Class and Order. 
GyNANDRIA MonanpRIiA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuinez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Sepala paulo connata, patula ; lateralia pedi producto 
columne adnata et calcar simulantia. Petala sepalis con- 
formia. Labellum trilobum, patulum, venis basi callosis. 
Columna marginata, canaliculata, mutica. Anthera subro- 
tunda, opercularis, glabra. Pollinia 8, in laminam luteam 
- semifusa, quatuor exterioribus tenuibus quatuor interiora 
erassiora abscondentibus. Rostellwm laminatum, con- 
- vexum.—Herbe epiphyte, occidentales, ab arboribus pen- 
dule ; caulibus Cyrtopodii depauperatis, foliis nervosis basi 
vaginantibus, racemis lateralibus multifloris. Lindl. 
Specific Name and Synonym. 
Cnysis* aurea. Lindley Bot. Reg. t. 1937. 
An Orchideous plant of great beauty, discovered by Mr. 
Hencuman in 1834, in the valley of Cumancoa, in Vene- 
zuela, and introduced by him to the collection of Messrs. 
Low of the Clapton Nursery, to whom the Glasgow Garden 
is indebted for the possession of the plant. It blossomed in 
the stove in May, 1837, in great perfection. Its mode of 
growth is singular; for the old stems are constantly pen- 
dent, the extremities and young shoots alone curved up- 
wards, characters not easily exhibited in so small a figure 
as the annexed one. 
Descr. 
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* Xo, a melting: the pollen-masses of this plant being, as it were, 
fused together. Lindley. 
