No. 806. 
GOMEZA TENUIFLORA. 
Class. Order, 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
We received this curious plant in July 
last, from His Excellency Sir Ralph Wood- 
ford at Trinidad. It has a small bulb, with 
or two leaves, from the axils of which 
the flower-stems are produced: they are 
nd bear numerous flowers, of a 
most delicate form. After the blossoms have 
such an one our figure was taken. This 
plant is not singular in this property, as 
several others of the same class do the same. 
We have considered it as coming nearer 
to this genus than any other: it has how- 
ever, a relation to Cranichis of Swartz. It 
is a parasitical plant growing on trees, and 
may be cultivated in this country in the way 
recommended for Epidendrums &e.; by 
keeping it in the stove, planted in a pot 
with some pieces of wood and vegetable 
earth: it may now and then, also, be 
increased by dividing the roots. 
