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Geodorum citrinum. Lemon-coloured 

 Geodorum. 



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Class and Order. 

 Gynandria Monandria. 



Generic Character. 



Labellum cucullatum., ventricosum (nunc basi calcaratum), 

 sessile, cum columna non articulatum. Petala conformia, 

 subsecunda. Massae pollinis 2, postice lobulo auctae. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Geodorum citrinum ; scapo foliis breviore, spica pendula : 

 floribus congestis, labello basi subcalcarato ; apice obtuso 

 integerrimo. Brown in Hort. Kezo. ed. alt. 5. p. 207. 

 Poir. Encj/cl. Suppl 5. p. 689. 



Geodorum citrinum. Bot. Repos. 626. 



Descr. Leaves all radical, lanceolate, many-nerved, upon 

 long sheathing- footstalks. Scape lateral, shorter than the 

 leaves, with alternate sheathing leaves or bractes, the upper 

 ones more expanded from the stalk than the lower, terminating 

 in a cernuous spike of flowers of a pale greenish yellow colour, 

 the labellum of which is beautifully variegated with crimson 

 veins. The Column erect, semicylindrica'. crowned with a 

 two-celled, opercular, deciduous anther, containing two pollen 

 masses, united to a very short pedicle or lobe at the base, 

 attached at the margin of a hemispherical cavity (the stigma) 

 just below the anther, filled with a viscid liquor, into which 

 if the pollen masses are immersed they are almost instantane- 

 ously dissolved. 



The first notice we have of this rare and beautiful plant, 

 belonging to the natural order of orchidece, is in Andrew's 

 Botanist's Repository. The drawing was made by our la- 

 mented 



