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HIABENARIA GIGANTEA. GIGANTIC 
HABENARIA. 
SEK EEK EEE EEE 
: Class and Order. 
GynanpriA Monanpria. 
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipez. § Orurypez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cor. ringens. Labellum basi subtus calcaratum. Glan- 
dule pollinis nude, distincte, (loculis pedicellorum adnatis 
vy. solutis distinctis.) Br. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Hapenaria gigantea; tuberibus indivisis, labio tripartito, 
lobis lateralibus sursum curvatis pectinatis intermedio 
porrecto lineari-spathulato, cornu longissimo, petalis 
2 interioribus linearibus falcatis. 
Orcuis gigantea. Smith Ex. Bot. v. 2. p. 79. t. 100. 
2 te J ve ‘ 
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In the month of June of the present year, we had the 
high gratification to receive at the Glasgow Botanic Gar- 
den, among other terrestrial Orchideous plants from Bom- 
bay, roots of the present individual from Joszrn Nimmo, 
Esq., under the name of Orcuis Susanne. These have 
flowered in great perfection in the following month of Sep- 
tember, yielding a delicious fragrance, and have added a 
truly splendid plant to the already rich collection of Orchi- 
dew in that establishment. I am not however able to 
satisfy myself that it is the species so called by Linnaus, 
He refers to the “ Fros Susanne of Rumpnius, figured in 
Herm. Par. Bat. t. 209, and in the Herbarium Amboinense, 
v. 5. p. 99: but, however they may represent our plant in 
the general structure of the flower, as far at least as can be 
judged from such imperfect figures, they are both figured 
and described as much smaller in all their parts -_ our 
plant, 
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