1901 



* SCAPHYGLOTTIS violacea. 



Violet Boatlip. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 

 Nat. Orel. ORCHIDACEyE, § VANDEiE. 



SCAPHYGLOTTIS. Poppig et Endlicher Nova Genera et Species 

 Plantarum, 1. 58. Sepala conniventia, lateralla basi paulo producta cum pede 

 columnar connata labello supposita, siipremum lineare convexum. Petala con- 

 formia sed paulo brevlora. Labellum oblongum canaliculatum cum pede paulu- 

 lum producto columnse continuum eique in parallelum, margine leviter repandum. 



Columna marginata. Pollinia 4. teretia, glandulam cuneatam sessilia. 



Herbas epzp/j?//«, cazilesce7ites,nuncpseudobulbosce in axillis. Folia cormcea, 

 angusta. Floras parvi, axillares, pedunculis dense vaginatis. 



S. violacea ; pseudobulbis nuUis, foliis linearibus apice emarginatis, floribus 



subgeminis, labello lineari apiculato leviter repando. 

 Cladobium violaceum. Lindl. Nat. syst. of Botany, p. 446. 



Caules teretes, striati, articulati, verosimiliter penduli, ad nodos proli- 

 feri. Folia 1-2 poll, longa, linearia v. lineari-lanceolata, emarginata, forte 

 in pseudobulbos insidentia dum planta vegetior pullulat. Flores minuti, 

 violacei, pedunculis dense vaginatis brevissimis, geminati. Sepala lateralia 

 basi producta et ohliqua, supremo lineari duplb latiora. Petala supremo 

 conformia, sed paulo breviora et minus colorata. Labellum album, cum basi 

 leviter producto columnce continuum, carnosum, canaliculatdm, lineare, 

 apiculatum, apice purpurascens, margine leviter repandum ideoque subtrilo- 

 bum. Columna semiteres, alba, apice utrinque unidentata. Pollinia 4, dis- 

 tincta, teretia, in glandulam triangularem sessilia. 



A native of Demerara, whence it was imported by Messrs. 

 Loddiges. It is not a species of any beauty, but it is a great 

 Botanical rarity, flowering in the Orchideous stove in 

 February, 



'" ^Ki'tfjjoc a boat, and yXwrro a tongue, in allusion to the usual form of the 

 labellum. 



