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BROMHEADIA palustris. 

 Marsh Bj'omheadia. 



GYNANDRIA MONANBRIA. 

 Nat. ord. Orchidace^. § Vande.5E. 



BROMHEADIA, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841. 7nisc. 184. SepaJa et 

 petala subeequalia patentissima. Labellwn cucullatum, trilobum, cum co- 

 lumna omnino paraUelum, basi inarticiilatum, secus axin elevatum pubescens. 

 Coluinna late alata, caruosa, elongata. Anthera 2 locularis, dorso conica, 

 cum columna articulata. Pollinia 2, reniformia, postice excavata, in glan- 



dulam latam, triangularem, membranaceam sessilia. Herba caidescens, 



ebulbis. Folia disticha, coriacea, emaryinata. Spica terminalis, disticha, 

 fiexuo$a, multiflora, longe pedunculata, bracteis hrevissimis rigidis, dentiformi- 

 bus. Flores speciosi, recti. 



Bromheadia palustris, Lindl. I. c. Hooker. Bot. Mag. t. 4001. 

 Grammatophyllum ? Finlaysonianum, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. no. 7561. Gen. 

 8i Sp. Orch. p. 173. 



We formerly introduced this curious plant to our readers 

 with a few observations which we beg permission to repeat, 

 with some corrections. 



" When Mr. Finlayson was in the Malay archipelago, he 

 found a curious Orchidaceous plant at Sincapore with the 

 habit of Epidendrum elongatum ; and from specimens of it, 

 almost destroyed by insects, which I examined some years 

 since in Dr. Wallich's herbarium, I referred it with great 

 doubt to Grammatophyllum, under the name of G. ? Finlay- 

 sonianum, {Gen. Sf Sp. Orch. 1. 173.) This plant has flowered 

 at Penllergare in South Wales with J. D. Llewelyn, Esq. who 

 received it from Cuming, with the memorandum that it had 

 been " dug out of a bog in Sumatra." Having now had the 

 advantage of examining a perfect specimen in flower, I find 

 that althoug^i nearly allied to Grammatophyllum, it is in fact 

 very distinct. I therefore avail myself of the opportunity of 

 adding to the list of genera the name of Sir Edward Ffrench 

 Bromhead, Bart. F.R.S. whose investigations of the natural 

 affinities of plants are well known to systematical Botanists." 



