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PLEUROTHALLIS SAUROCEPHALUS. LIZARD- 
FLOWERED PLEUROTHALLIS. 
ERE EKER EE EEE REE EEE EEE 
Class and Order. 
GynanprRiA MOonaANpDRIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuine. ) 
Generic Character. 
Sepala conniventia, subequalia : lateralibus vel omnibus 
connatis. Pet. minora. Labellum liberum, cum columna 
subparallelum, integerrimum, petalis difforme. - Columna 
elongata, aptera, libera, cum ovario continua. Anthera 
apice membranacea. Pollinia 2, nune materia pulverea ad 
apicem coherentia. Lind. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
PievrotHatus * saurocephalus; caule compresso acute 
sulcato, folio elliptico carnoso plano spica subeequali, 
bracteis ovatis brevi-vaginatis, laciniis ealycinis obtu- 
sis carnosis lateralibus semiconnatis, petalis labelloque 
bituberculato minutis. 
PLevrorHa.uis saurocephalus. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1571. 
_ Descr. The root of this plant I have not seen. The stem 
is three or four inches long, about as thick as a swan’s quill, 
compressed, but grooved on the upper side asifits edges were 
rolled in, and nearly of equal width throughout; bearing 
at the extremity one rather large elliptical fleshy leaf, which 
is plane, or only with a depressed line in the centre, having 
a notch at the extremity. Spikes two, in the present in- 
stance, 
e_._— 
r * From wrevpa, a rid, and baraw, to flower, probably in allusion to the dis- 
tichous inflorescence of some species. _ * 
