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BLKTIA* florida. 

 Pallid Bletia. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRTA. 



Nat. ord. Orciiide^e Juss. — {Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany, p. 262.) 



BLETIA Fl. Peruv. — Sepala palentia, a^niuilia. Pctula mine patentia, 

 iiuiif c'oiinivcntia, sepalis suba^qualia. Lahcllum cucullatum, cum columna 

 articulatum, nunc basi saccatum, trilobum, disco suepius lamellato v. tuber- 

 culato. Columna elongata, semitcres. Anthcra carnosa, 8-iocularis. Pol- 



linia 8, sequalia, li'j^ulis 4 pulvereis cohaDientia. Hcrbai subterrestres, 



foliis cnsiformibus plicatis, scapis raccmosis multijiuris, floribus scepius 

 ypcciosis. 



V>. florida; sepalis ovali-lanccolatis obtiisiusciilis siibpatentibvis, petalis lati- 

 oribus obtusis su])ra coluninani Ibrnicatis, labelli disco costis <piinque 

 rectis indivisis: lobis laterabbus rolundatis abbreviatis, iiitermedio cu- 

 neato crispo lamellis tribus iindulatis apice abruptis, scapo simpUci radi- 

 cal!, foliis ensiforniibus. 

 Cymbidiuin floridum. Salisb. prodr. 9. 

 Gyas florida. Salisb. in act. soc, hort. 1. 261. 

 B. florida. R. Broivn in hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 206. 

 B. pallida. Loddif/cs bat. cab. t. 629. 



Herba et pseudobulbi fere onminb B. verccundce. Scapus radicalis, 

 aphyllus, Sfjuamis varjinatus, bitripedalis, gracilis, nunquam {(piantum vidi) 

 rainosus. Racemus sub-\2-florus. Flores pallidc rosci. Sepala oblongo- 

 lanceolata, obtusa, septemvcnia, patida. Petala conformia, scdmulto laliora, 

 magis inembranacea, venis tantum quinque, quarum laterales venulas plurts 

 sub-ramosas versiis marginem promunt, supra columnam in fornicem du- 

 plicem s. galeam conniventia. Labellum pallidius, trilobum, oblongum, 

 lobis later alibu<i, rotundatis, abbreviatis, intermedio cuneato, truncato, crispo, 

 lateralibus 7mdtb longiore ; costis ynedii quinque luteis, rectis, quarum late- 

 rales viajores, nunc divisa', vix basin lobi mcdii attingunt, intermedia} ad 

 apictm labelli tendunt dimidid inferiore pariim elevatcc, recta, plana, supe- 

 rior e petaloidecp, crisptc, subtruncatce. 



* Named after Don Luis Blct, a Spanish medical man, much attached 

 to Botany. 



