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CYRTOCHlLUM filipes. 



Thread-stalked Curvelip. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orchidace^e, § Vande^e. 



CYRTOCHlLUM. Botanical Register, vol. 19. fol. 1627. 



C. filipes ; scapo longissinao simplici filiformi apice ipso paucifloro, sepalis 

 petalisque lanceolatis conformibus acutis planis, labello cuneato bifido 

 apice dilatato basi dente porrecto subsimplici subtuberculato aucto, 

 columnse alis minimis cuneatis truncatis. Bot Reg. 1841, misc. 72. 



Pseudobulbi ovati, 2-3-phglli, basi etiam foliosi. Folia graminea, basi 

 invicem vaginantia, vaginis in collum aggregatis, pedalia, racemo filiformi, 

 gracili, erecto, apice florido breviora. Scapus distanter vaginatus, internodiis 

 sesquipollicaribus . Flores C. maculati facie, sed lutei. Sepala et petala 

 cequalia, lanceolata, planiuscula, tigrina. Labellum luteum, basi cuneatum 

 integerrimum, apice dilatatum, subrotundum, bilobum, et subcrenatum. Crista 

 elevata, antice in comic brevi producta, utrinque dente parvo aucta, adjectis 

 tuberculis uno alterove inconspicuis. Columna cum labello angulum acntum 

 formans, brevis, utrinque antice in aciem rotundatam producta, alis prceterea 

 minimis truncatis. 



A native of Guatemala, whence it was originally sent by 

 Mr. Skinner to Mr. Bateman and others, and whence it has 

 also been received by the Horticultural Society from Mr. 

 Hartweg. In consequence of its colour being yellow it has 

 the aspect of an Oncidium, from which genus it is distinguished 

 by its labellum being narrowed to the base, where it forms an 

 acute, not an obtuse, angle with the column. It has a very 

 slender stem, above two feet long, perfectly simple, on the 

 extreme point of which are four or five flowers about the size 

 of those of C. maculatum. 



Fig. 1. represents the column seen from the side, and 2. 

 the base of the column with the peculiar crest. 



It is not necessary to keep this species in such a hot place 

 as some of the West Indian Orchidacese, but a temperature 

 November, 1841. v 



