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whole Fungus, yet, at the base, they have a degree of curva- 
ture, which, I presume, suggested the generic name of Cy- 
clomyces. 
Tas. LXXIX. Fig. 1, Plant, seen from the upper side :— 
natural size. Fig. 2, Under-side of do. Fig. 3, Lamellze, 
from near the centre. Fig. 4, Lamelle, passing into 
large pores at the margin. Fig. 5, Vertical section of 
the lamellae, showing more distinctly the spicule or sete 
on their surface :—magnified, 
[TAB. LXXX.] 
GONGORA MACRANTHA. 
Gongora macrantha ; petalis approximatis, labello saccato basi 
utrinque plicis deflexis 4, appendice magna pedunculata 
galeata, columna basi bidentata. 
Has. Apud Caraccas, Am. Merid.; ubi legit D. Lockhart. 
In the Botanical Magazine, t. 2755, I had the gratification 
of publishing a superb Brazilian parasitic Orchideous plant, 
from the collection of Richard Harrison, Esq., which, though 
-not in all respects coinciding with the genus Gongora, I called 
Gongora speciosa. I have been agreeably surprised by 
receiving lately, from Mr. Lockhart, a flower of a closely 
allied species, preserved in spirits, which that zealous gardener 
discovered in the Caraccas, in 1828. Roots were brought by 
him to Trinidad, where one of them blossomed in the autumn 
of 1829, and bore three flowers. But so extraordinary a 
production was supposed, by visitors to the garden, to be 
artificial; the flowers were handled in the absence of Mr. 
Lockhart, and injured, so that only one of them was ina 
sufficiently good state to be preserved, and that was obligingly 
transmitted to me. The foliage and stem, or bulb, are 
described as being similar to those of Catasetum or Brassia. 
-I refrain from any farther remarks upon this singular 
blossom, farther than to say that it is principally distinguished 
