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ORNITHIDIUM coccrveum. 
Scarlet Ornithidium. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.—Nart. Onv. ORCHIDE. 
Gen. Cuar.—Labellum sessile cucullatum cum basi columne connatum. Pe- 
tala conniventia. Masse pollinis 4, oblique, postice sulcate.-—Br. 
Ornithidium coccineum, Sauiss. in Hort. Soc. Trans. v. i. p- 203-—Br. in 
Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 5. p.210. . * 
Cymbidium coccineum, Wiiup. Sp. Pl. v. iv. p. 94—Bot. Mag. t. 1437. 
Stem frequently a foot or more in height, here and there beset with green 
oblong bulb-like processes, and with the brown sheathing bases of old 
leaves; the extremity alone producing a tuft of long, ensiform, flexuose, 
somewhat striated green Jeaves, whose base is swoln, and slightly gib- 
bous. 
From the axils of the /eaves arise several beautiful scarlet Flowers, borne upon 
long, solitary, drooping footstalks, which are jointed, and furnished with 
a long sheath at each joint, green, except beneath the flower, where the 
sheaths are red and swelled. _ 
Divisions of the perianth connivent, the 3 outer ones ovato-acuminate, very 
yellow, shorter than the lip, slightly curved, nearly horizontal, truncate 
at the extremity, furnished with a moveable lid (the Anther), like an 
operculum, and attached by a single péint behind ; this Anther is conical, 
obtuse and gibbous. If it be removed before the a eae 
nuated i into the footstalk. 
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