GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



493 



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CRANICHIS. Swartz. 



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Corolla pentapetala, I Corolla 5-petaIled, 

 resupinata, subringens. resupine, somewhat 

 Labellum fornicatum. ringent. Lip vaulted. 



Anthera stylo parallel- Anther parallel with 



postice inserta 



the style, inserted be 

 bind. 



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1. MULTIFLORA. 



C. radicibus fasclcu 

 latis, teretibus, tomen- 

 tosis; foliis .ovah-lan- 

 ceolatis, sub sessilibus 



scapo 



multifloro. 



J 



su 



perne pubescente; pe- 

 tahs interioribus conni- 

 ventibus; labello forni 



E. 



Root fasciculate, te- 

 rete, tomentose; leaves 

 oval-lanceolate, nearly 



sessile 



? 



scape 



many 



flowered, pubescent 

 near the summit; inte- 

 rior petals connivent 



lip vaulted, acuminate. 



J 



Scape tihout 



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cato, acuminato. 



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Nutt. 2. p. 191. 



Root composed of many terete, villous or tomentose fibres. 



two feet high, pubescent towards the summit. Leaves of the ^ 



ceolate, rather acute, glabrous, nerved, attenuated at base but scarcely pro- 

 longed to a petiole; of the stem merely sheathing scales. Floioers (fifteen 

 to twenty) somewhat scattered in a teVminal spike. Bracteal leaves very 

 small, scarcely half as long as the germ, pubescent. Three exterior seg- 

 »ients of the perianth lanceolate, acute, expanding, pubescent on the outer 

 surface, of the interior segments the two upper (turned downwards from the 



the summitj 

 generally inclosing 



psupine position of the flower) obliquely ensiforra, connivent at 

 Imdlum fornicate, compressed at the sides, acuminate, genera 



streaks 



If^e genitaliferous column. 



^een, the sides of the labellum edged with a circle of deep green. 



snort, gibbous, with an oblique pointed summit. Anthers inserted behind 



Column 



the 



^e summit, but when the column is enclosed in the labellum, appearing to 

 jn front- Germ somewhat triquetous, tapering to the base. 

 Apparently allied to the C. Pauciflora of Jamaica. 

 Collected by Dr. Macbride in St. John's, Berkeley. 

 * lowers October. 



