Gardneriane. N. O. Orchidex. 
TABS. CDLXXIII. CDLXXIV. 
CLEIsTes speciosa. Gardn. 
Labello convoluto truncato emarginato sepalorum longitudine, 
lamellis infra medium integris. 
Cleistes speciosa. Gardn. Herb. Bras. n. 4003. 
Has. Marshy places, in upland campos near Natividade, and 
etween Natividade and Arrayas, province of Goyaz, Brazil, 
flowering from January till March. 
The following description of this beautiful plant was drawn 
up from recent specimens. 
Herbaceous, 3-4 feet high. Root fibrous, fibres succulent. Stem 
fistular, leafy. © Leaves between succulent and coriaceous, 
glaucous, finely striated with parallel veins, 5-6 inches long 
subbilobed, purple, suspended by a lobed process of the upper part 
of the back of the column. Germen sessile, fleshy, cylindrical, about 
inches long 
This species is nearly allied to C. rosea, Lindl., but is well 
distinguished by its truncate and emarginate, not acute, labellum, 
and by the crest being entire at and below the middle. I possess 
three other species from Brazil—one from the province of 
Goyaz, with long narrow leaves, my only specimen of which 1s 
too imperfect to be described, and the two following : 
Cleistes montana, (Gardn. Herb. Bras. n. 587 9.) labello sepa- 
oe — ae (Gardn. MSS.), labello convoluto oblongo- 
7.4 : 
aS: 
Miers, Esq., G. Gardner. 
oe Fig. 1. Labellum and column. f.2. Base of the labellum- 
Be Sf 3. Column. g wee Anther-case : —magnified. 
