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N ANODES* discolor. 

 Purple Nanodes. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orchideje Juss. § Vandeee Lindl. {Introduction to the 

 natural system of Botany, p. 265.) 



NANODES. — Perianthium ringens. Sepalum supremum fornicatum ; 

 lateralia labello supposita eoque basi eonnata. Petala sepalis lateralibus 

 conformia iisque subparallela, libera. Labellum carnosum, indivisum, cum 

 columna connatum (more Epidendri). Columna ad utrumque marginem 

 clinandrii alata. Anthera 2-locularis, rostrata. Pollinia 4, compressa, col- 



lateralia, in glandulam ovatam sessilia. Epiphyta humilis, ccespitosa, 



caulescens. Folia coriacea, disticha, vaginantia, approximata. Flores dis- 

 colores, in apice caulium sessiles, solitarii. 



Nanodes discolor. 



Caules aggregati, 2-3 pollices alti, simplices, dense foliosi, nihil bulbosi. 

 Folia ovato-oblonga, emarginata, basi amplexicaulia et vaginantia, inter- 

 nodiis duplb longiora, viridi-purpurea. Flores solitarii, sessiles, terminales, 

 obscure purpurei, inter folia immersi. Sepalum supremum ascendens, lineari- 

 oblongwn, convexum ; petala declinata, cum sepalis lateralibus labello sup- 

 positis parallela. Labellum carnosum, ovatum, minutissimh crenulatum. 



A native of the woods near Rio Janeiro, whence it was 

 received, some years since, by the Horticultural Society. 

 Our drawing was made in the month of August 1829. 



Curious as are very many of the species of epiphytal 

 Orchideee, we do not remember one that is much more 

 remarkable than this, which possesses a habit quite its own. 

 Its flowers are so like the leaves from among which they 

 spring, and by which they are embosomed, that you would 

 scarcely discover the plant to be in flower even if every 

 branch was blossoming. 



We presume its cultivation should be that applied to 



From vxvuhiK, pigmy. 



