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Class and Order. \ gs a 
GYNANDRIA Wide corte: . , : * | i 
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Sepala patentia equalia. Petala nunc patentia, nunc 
conniventia, sepalis equalia. Labellum cucullatum, cum - 
columna articulatum, nunc basi saccatum, trilobum, disco’ 
sepius lamellato vel tuberculato. Columna elongata, semi- 
teres. Anthera carnosa, 8-locularis. Pollinia 8 equalia, 
caudiculis 4 pulvereis coherentibus.—Herbe subterrestres, 
foliis ensiformibus plicatis, scapis racemosis multifloris, flo- 
ribus sepius speciosis. Lindl. 
Specific Name and. Character. 
Buiet1A patula ; foliis radicalibus lanceolatis plicato-nervo- 
sis, scapo elato subramoso, floribus patentissimis, eee 
lis lanceolato-ellipticis basi attenuatis subaqualibus 
patulis, labello cucullato, lobis lateralibus rotundatis, 
medio emarginato transverse plicato, disco lamellis 6 
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This handsome species was received at the Botanic Gar- 
den, Edinburgh, from Dr. Fiscuer, St. Petersburgh, in 
1830, without specific name, but marked as a native of 
Hayti. It has repeatedly since flowered finely in our stove, 
Descr. Bulb round, at first, when it pushes up the scape, 
very small, ane enlarging to the size of a small 
second year green, shining, nearly smooth, 
the withered bases of the leaves, marked 
with three or four cireular bands, and furrowed at the apex 
when these fall, persisting for some years, and becoming 
gradually 
