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CCELIA Bauerana. 



Mr. Bauer s Ccella. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDBIA. 

 Nat. ord. Orchidace.e, § Epidendre^. 



CCELIA. Lindl. Sej)ala distincta, conniventia, subsequalia : lateralibus 

 basi obliquis. Petala subaequaKa. Lahellum cum columna subparallelum, 

 apice patulum, basi excavatum, indivisum. Columna nana, erecta, semiteres, 

 basi paido producta ; stigmate rotundato excavate prominente, rostello inflexo. 

 Anthera ovata, bdocularis. Pollinia 8, quaternatim materie pulverea in 2 



paribus cohserentia. Ovarium 9-alatum. Herbse epiphytes pseudobulbosce, 



basi squamatcB ; foliis gramineis subplicatis, scapo radicali sqiiamato, bracteis 

 longissimis. 



C. Bauerana (L. 36. Bauer's Illustrations, Genera, t. 3. Epidendrum tripte- 

 ricm, Smith. Cymbidium tripterum, Swartz.) ; foliis gramineis raceme 

 multo longioribus, bracteis floribus subsequaKbus, labello unguiculato 

 ovato obtuse margiue calloso. 



The West Indies and Mexico produce this little epiphyte, 

 which, although white and inconspicuous, is, like our own 

 Lily of the Valley, so sweet that it must take precedence of 

 most of its race. No Hawthorn hedge is more fragrant than 

 a bed of this Coelia. 



The genus was founded upon a drawing made in February 

 1810 by the late Mr. Francis Bauer, and published in his 

 illustrations of Orchidaceous plants. In that place the pollen- 

 masses were represented as being four in number, and concavo- 

 convex, so that, lying in pairs side by side, each pair formed 

 a hollow body narrower at back than in front. It was by 

 this circumstance that the name of the genus was suggested 

 (from kolXos hollow). To my very great surprise, however, 

 I find, upon examining the plant myself, which I have now 

 for the first time been enabled to do by the communication of 

 a fresh specimen from Mr. Rogers, that no such structure as 

 that represented by Bauer exists. On the contrary the 

 pollen-masses are eight in number, placed in fours in double 



