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CENTUIIIA X MONOCOT. 

 ORCHIDES or Synaumia. This fine Nat. 

 Order of plants shall be continued here ; hav- 

 ing already given many Genera of it, see I, 1 17 

 to 138, 183 to 18G, 201, '211, 2'2(), to 224, 3J8 

 to 344, 372 to 377, 382 to 385, 804 to 806. It 

 is now become one of the most interesting and 

 prolific orders, evincing the vast progress of 

 modern Botany. Linneus had only 9 (Genera 

 of it, Adanson only 7 although he had Vanilla 

 omitted by Linneus, Necker in 1790 had 17 

 Genera, Jussieu, Svvartz, Richard, Thouars had 

 vastly increased them,(Persoon had 30) and now 

 Lindley has over 200 Genera; but 100 have 

 been or will be added by myself. The single 

 Genus Epiclendriun which was a confuse med- 

 ley has furnished 30 Genera, and even as re- 

 formed lately it contains 10 or 15 more as I 

 have shown. Necker had 3 which I could not 

 ascertain as he gave no typical sp. biit I give 

 here their characters that they may be ascer- 

 tained and restored. 



901. PiiADuosANTfius Ncck. 1474. Fetalis 

 4-5patulis ineqT undul. label, basi tubul. quad- 

 rato dilatato ad apex, anther. *2. stig. infundib. 

 Scaposa — This must include several Den.dro- 

 biums, and Necker intimated that like Epiden- 

 drum, it had many anomalies. 



902. Eydis ANTHEM A JXcck. 1475 petalis 5 

 linear, subeq. Label, basi tubul. columna am- 

 plectens, anthera cuculata 4luc. pollinis 8. stylo 

 tubo adnato, stigma infundib. caps, ventricosa 

 contorta. Caulescens. — Is it the Octomeria? 

 of late xluthors. 



903. Abuochis Neck. 1470. difl^. Orchis, pe- 

 talis 5 ineq. label, resupinato Ld basi galei- 



