CHLORA’A LONGIBRACTEA‘TA, 
“  LONG-BRACTED CHLORAA. 
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GENUS. Cniorma NDLE Perigonii membranacei foliola srteniom 
subxqualia, lateralia abl supp, ees incrassata, er suprem 
curh interionbaw sasloca in galeam connivens. LaBer mt sessile e, nae 
latum, integrum vel hton: disco eicteiae sepius sonia . CotumNna 
elongata, semiteres, marginata. ANTHERA terminalis, loculis incomplete bilo- 
eis, 
culatis Vaginatis, f foliis _oblongis nervosis renee bare oci oy floribus spicatis 
magnis, perigonii fi ulato-venosis ven a ee colo- 
ratis, sepe nigricantibus, Endlicher: Petceta “tenet p. 2 
SPECIES. Curorza troncrpracreata. Linptey. Forts ‘Pstial ob. 
tusis rosulatis, bracteis acuminatis floribus leietastbans sepalis inferioribus 
bis lateralibus planis cristaque depaupe ratis, medio sinuato pr: oe nudo 
pice carnoso, columna sick.  iedley, in Brande’s Journal, v, 23. p. 48. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, CHLORHA. PERIGONE membran- 
ous, the outer leaflets nearly equal, the lateral placed under the la- 
bellum, thickened at the top, deflected, the uppermost of the same 
form as the interior one, and brought together with them into. a 
galea. Lup sessile, hood-shaped, entire or three-cleft, crested on the 
disk and often thickened. Cotnmna long, semicylindrical, bordered. 
Anruers terminal, the cells incompletely divided into two, the stig- 
mate lying transversely on the top of the columna. POLLEN MASSES 
two, each divided into two parts, and cohering at the base. 
Descriprion OF THE SPECIES, CHLORHZA LONGIBRACTEATA. 
Stem about a foot high. Leaves oblong, obtuse, somewhat undu- 
lated, spreading, reticulately veined with longitudinal ribs. Stem 
covered with sheathing reticulate acuminate bracts. FLOWERS ina 
terminal spike, each one in the axilla of a bract, which in the original 
wild specimens is longer than the flower itself, but shorter in the one 
here figured. DivisiONs OF THE PERIGON all ascending, the upper 
