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GomESA RECURVA. Recurvep Gomesas: 
eda eskdeekabk 
| Clafs and Order. 
GyNAnDRIA MonANDRIA. 
Div. IV. Anthera terminalis mobilis decidua: Maffe pollinis 
demum cereacez. . HERDS io VtmamGO 
Generic Chara@er. 
Labellum ecalcaratum indivifum, bicriftatum, feffile, cum bafi 
columne aptere libere continuum. Pe/ala 2 antica exteriorum 
connata, labello fuppofita. Maj pollinis 2, hinc fulco obliquo 
biloba, apice connexe proceffu communi ftigmatis. Bkows Mf, 
«Specific Name. 
GOMESA recurva. Brown Mf. 
Descr. Stem-bulb ovate, compreffed with fharp margins. 
Leaves \anceolate, widening upwards, in our f{pecimen three 
from the crown of the bulb; from the bafe of which iffue two 
others enfolding, in their broad compreffed petioles, both the 
lower part of the fcape and of the bulb. Scape, one on each, 
fide, about nine inches long, rounded, recurved. Braé#es, one 
at the bafe of each flower, ovate, concave, membranaceous. 
Germen inferior, club-fhaped, terminating in a very fhort 
peduncle. Corolla ringent; three /uperior petals more or lefs ereét, 
concave, with undulated edges, obtufe, moftly connivent up- 
ward: the two Jewer ones united into one, nearly the whole 
length, dependent, appearing like a fecond lip to the flower, fome- 
what longer than the others ; the two ribs fhew this to be really 
two petals united. The true /ip or /abellum (neftary of Linn aus) 
is fhorter than the Jower petal, oval, with a double ridge on 
each fide towards the bafe, united with the column which 
has no appendices or lateral filaments, Anther a hood-fhaped 
moveable lid. Pollen maffes two, round-oval, {mooth bodies 
obliquely fulcated on the under fide, connetted by an elaftic 
: | pellucid 
