LISSOCHI'LUS PARVIFLO'RUS. 
SMALL-FLOWERED LISSOCHILUS. 
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NUS. Lissocuitus. Brown. , explanati foliola: e. 
partons, libera, parva, reflexa, vel uti interiora maxima, aleformia, pat 
tium liberum, vel cum columne basi connatum, saccatum, conca’ 
prvestn um vel trilobum. CoLumna brevis, erecta, semiteres. 
bilocularis, cristata. Poxxrnta duo, fpostice biloba, caudicula brevi lin 
glandula triangular. Huxe# Africane, terrestres, acaules, pseudobulbose, 
striatis vel plicatis, racemis radicalibus multifloris. Enpzicuer. Genera 
m, p. 
SPECIES, Lied ARVIFLORUS, - igh Fouts plicatis, pe 
radicali sexocto-floro, sep = supremo ovato concavo unguiculato - 
$s pat culatis, 
labello sublibero basi auriculato, epichilio oblongo obtuso tricarinato, gibbo 
porrecto obtuso antice sulcato. Linprey; Genera and Species of Orchidaceous 
Plants, p. 191. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, LissocHitus. PERIGON spreading, 
the outer leaflets free, herbaceous, and either small and t ed back, 
or, like the inner ones, broad, spreading, and wing-shaped. Lapen- 
LuM free, or connate with the base of the column, bag-s ma 2 con- 
cave, nearly entire, or three-lobed. CoLumwn short, erect, ic 
drical.. ANTHER two-celled, crest-shaped. POLLEN MASSES two, — J 
divided into two lobes at the back, with a short linear caudicle and a ; 
triangular gland. : : 7) 
Description or THE SpEctEs, Pissiicihiied PARVIFLORUS. 
Peataeg yi short, nearly globular. Leaves three te ) six, broad, 
, folded lengthwise. FLOWER-STEM radical, 
ect, a of the leaves or rather longer, smooth, striate, 
bea Se a few membranous sheathing pointed scalés or bracts, and 
towards the top a raceme of six or eight flowers. ‘PEDIcELs short, 
one-flowered, each at the axil of a short bract. Ovary cylindri- 
cal. Fiowers smaller than several of the genus, being barely an 
inch in diameter. Sepats or outer divisions of the perigon green, 
with longitudinal streaks 6f a dull purple, the upper one oval 
oblong, rather longer than the petals and somewhat reflexed, ‘the two 
