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CYRTOPODIUM* Woodfordii. 

 Woodford's Cyrtopodium. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orchide^e Juss. Sect. Vandese LindL {Introduction to 

 the natural system of Botany, p. 262.) 



CYRTOPODIUM. — Labellum ungue geniculate; lamina 3-partita. 

 Petala 5, distincta. Masses pollinis 2 postice bilobse. — R. Brown in Hort. 

 Kew. 5. 216. 



C. Woodfordii; bracteis subulato-lanceolatis, sepalis lanceolatis patentibus 

 secundis, petalis oblongis conniventibus brevioribus, labello basi saccato: 

 lobis lateralibus rotundatis intermedio emarginato basi bicorni. 

 C. Woodfordii. Bot. mag. 1814. 



Caulis 2-3-pedalis, fusiformis, carnosus, succo scatens viscido ad calceos 

 agglutinandos utili. Folia basi vaginantia, plurima, lanceolata, 1^-2- 

 pedalia, plicata, glabra. Scapus radicalis, 2-3-pedalis, teres, squamis 

 elongatis plicatis vaginatus. Racemus elovgatus, midtiflorus. Bracteae 

 subulato-lanceolatce, ovario longiores. Sepala anguste lanceolata, pallide 

 viridia, secunda. Petala breviora, viridi-fusca, oblonga, obtusa, erecta, 

 apice conniventia. Labellum basi lividum, apice roseo-purpureum, ventri- 

 cosum, basi saccatum, 3-lobum, lobis lateralibus rotundatis abbreviatis, 

 intermedio obtuso, undulato, emarginato, disco glanduloso basi bicorni. 



This beautiful plant is a native of the island of Trinidad, 

 of Guiana, and of Brazil, where it grows in shady damp 

 places, rooting among the mass of decayed vegetable soil 

 with which the earth is thickly covered in such places. It 

 is easily cultivated in a good stove, but very seldom flowers. 

 The specimen from which the accompanying figure was 

 taken, was produced in the Garden of the Horticultural 

 Society, in September last, upon plants sent from Rio 

 Janeiro by the Right Hon. Robert Gordon. It is increased 

 by the separation of the thick spindle-shaped stems with a 

 portion of the rooting Rhizoma attached, or even by cuttings 



* So called from kv^tos, curved, and wov?, a foot; in allusion to the 

 curved stalk of the labellum of Cyrtopodium Andersonii. 



