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RENANTHERA COCCINEA. SCARLET 
RENANTHERA. 
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Class and Order. 
Gynanpria Monanprla. 
( Nat. Ord. —OrcueE2. ) 
Generic Character. 
Petala patentia, 3 inferiora (quoad axin florum) sube- 
qualia, lineari-spathulata, 2 superiora multo majora, undu- 
lata, unguiculata. _Labellum sessile, parvum, bitubercu- 
latum, inferne conico-saccatum, 3-lobum, lodis lateralibus 
erectis, rotundatis, intermedio acuto reflexo basi constricto. 
Germen rectum. Columna brevis, aptera. Anthera oper- 
cularis, obtusa, decidua, pseudo-bilocularis. Masse pollinis 
2, postice bilobe, pedicellate ; pedicello lato membra- 
naceo: glandula ad basin magna. 
Specific Name and Synonyms. 
RENaNTHERA * coccinea. 
Renanrngra coccinea, Lour. Fl. Cochin. v. 2. p. 63%. 
Bot. Reg. t. 113). 
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Descr. Parasitic upon the trunks of trees, sending out, 
not only from the base of the stem, but also, here and there, 
from between the leaves, large, thick, whitish, fleshy, sim- 
ple fibres. Stem about one foot and a half or more high, 
slightly flexuose, nearly as thick as the human finger, yel- 
lowish-green, obscurely striated. Leaves many, distichous, 
rather distant, linear-oblong, thick, fleshy, emarginate at 
the point and generally unequal, having a . — 
eneath, 
* 
from From ren, a kidney, and anthera, the anther: 50 named by LouREIR®O, 
the shape, as he says, of the anthers or pollen-masses. 
