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Nrorria APHYLLA. ‘ _Liraress Neort. ‘ 
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Generic Character. ye 
Cor. Fingens: petalis exterioribus anticis labello imberbi 
suppositis; inferioribus conniventibus. Columna aptera. 
Pollen —— Br. ‘| : 
Specific md 
Descr. hehe altogether none. ‘Scape ten inches toa 
foot high, terete, glabrous below, pubescent with glands 
above: clothed at the base with rather closely-placed, above 
more distant, sheathing, large, m membranaceous, brownish- 
green scales, gradually passing into the linear-lanceolate, 
pubescent | bractee. lax, of few flowers, almost en- 
tirely, as is the whole scape, ‘of a | — colour, 
standing out horizontally, an inch long. The 
r petals, or segments of the perianth, linear- 
‘nearly s t, the two lower ones embracing 
the lip, and running down below it into a rather short, 
obtuse spur. The two upper and inner ones glabrous, of 
the same she Deas the outer, and applied to the uppermost 
Lip about as long as the petals, linear-oblong, 
glabrous, ecurved, its base uniting with the two lower 
exterior petals. Column of fructification as in N. speciosa 
and — 
At tab. 226 of my Exotic Flora, I have given a figure of 
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