_ CYCNO'CHES - MACULATA, ee 
RRS ES “SPOTTED CYCNOCHES. eae. 
ENDOGENE. : : OR "- MONOCOTYLEDON ER 
: Ath Wareral division 
{ to which De mg 
this Plant at 
NATURAL ORDER, ORCHIDACEA, 
6YNANDROSE, Artificial divisions GYNA avo 
OF to which MONANDRIA, 
LIN OLEY. this Plant belongs. OF LINNEUS. 
No. 156. 
GENUS. Cycnocurs. Livpiey. Perriconir explant foliola exteriora 
lanceolata, lateralia —_ labellum subcomnata, suprem —— NP at 
TaORRs faleata, decurva. lib 
caratum, integerrimum, ll lj MN 
Migis, are a, teres, apice “clavata, clinandrio u trinque faleato- Oe ae 
AntHeErA bilocularis. Poeun ta duo, postice suleata, er Arteaga aL 
lineari glandulz grosse affixa. Herbe epiphyte pseudobulbosa, s radi- 
calibus vel axillaribus, floribus racemosis. Enpxziczer. Genera Plentarem, 
198. ; 
SPECIES. Promcnay atdeaiieet (LenDiY.) sy" Sacene longer 
floro, lab 
ulis utrinque quinque vel sex < teretibus elongatis genuflexis pinnatifide margi- 
nato, epichilio lanceolate membranaceo acuto margine incurvo. LinDLey: 
Bot. Reg. 1840, Miscellanies, n 
CHARACTER OF THE Guies; CycNocHEes. PERIGON spreading, the 
outer leaflets or sepals lanceolate, the lateral ones slightly connected 
below the Jabellum, the upper one narrower; inner leaflets or petals 
broader, faleate, and curved downwards. LaBELLUM continuous with 
the column, free, lanceolate, without a spur, entire, with a callosity on 
the claw, and occasionally with processes on the surface towards the 
middle. Cotumn elongated, curved, cylindrical, thickened towards 
the top, with an auricular appendage on each side of the receptacle of 
the anther. ANTHER two-celled. PoLLEN MASSES two, furrowed on’ 
the back, almost clawed, with a linear caudicle attached to a large 
gland. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES CYCNOCHES MACULATA. Pseupo- 
BULBS elongated, compressed. FLOWERING STEMS terminated in a 
tuft of long linear lanceolate leaves, somewhat wavy on the margin, 
contracted towards the base above the sheaths by which they clasp the 
stem, strongly marked with three or five longitudinal nerves. RAcEME 
axillary, hanging downwards, nine to eighteen inches long, with a 
few squamz at the base, bearing flowers nearly from the bottom. 
Bracts membranous, lanceolate, pointed, about the length of the 
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