Plate 148. 



CIEEHOPETALUM MEDUS.l^:. 



Medusa s-liead Cirrho pet alum. 







Gen, Char. SepaJa ringeutia; lateralia acuminata^ longissima^ valde obliqua^ basi productse 

 columnae adnata^ supremo multo longlora, Petala nanaj apiculata. Lalellum integrum, cum hn^\ 

 column^ articulatum. Golumna minima^ basi longe producta^ apice bicornis. Anthera bilocularis. 

 PoUinia 4^ quorum duo interiora multo minora^ per paria connata. — Herbue epiphytcp ; rhizomatc 

 repente^ pseudobulbos monophyllos gerente. Folia coriacea, avenia. Floi'cs dense racemosi, mine 

 radiatiy in apice scapi radicaUs. TAiidh 



tiEEHOPETALUM Mediisic J pseudobulbis ovatis tetragonis, folio oblongo convexo cmarginato^ vag-inis 

 scapi oblongis ventricosis supremo pedunculo longiore, floribus dense capitatiSj sepalo supremo 

 acuminato inferioribus longissimis pendulis, petalis triangularibus acumi'natis, labollo ovato- 

 acuminato bicarinato, colamna3 auriculis acutis. Lindl. 



CiRRiioPETALUM Meduss^. Lmdl Bot. Beg. 1842, t. 12. Be Vrlcse, Tllu.^. U 12. f. 2. 



BuLBorHYLLUM Medustxj. RcJth. in Walters' Aunales. 



Strange as are the forms of the flowers of many of the tro]Hcal OrchkIe(S, there are 

 few which present a more remarkable appearance than the present. Individually the 

 flowers are small, but they are boi'ne in dense clusters, and two out of the three sepals 



y much lengthened, as to give the spike the appearance of a head with very 



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ong dishevelled hair, which induced Dr. Lindley to call the plant the '' Medusa s-hc ad 

 Orchisr It is a native of Singapore, and was imported by Messrs. Loddiges to our 

 stoves where it flowers freely in the winter-months. It should be grown on a block, 

 m the East India house, of course. 



D 



Pseudohulhs ovate, compressed but snbtctragonal, dark b 



more large brown scales at the base, and arising from a creeping, slender cmidfx 



rhi 



Leaf solitary from the apex of the bulb, large for the size of 



to six inches long), ligulate, obtuse 



fleshy and subcoi 



short, terete petiole at the base. Scape arising from the base of the psc 



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^ clothed with large membranaceous, concave, sheathing, 

 pale-green bracts, terminated with a bractcated capifulum, or short, rounded, many 

 flowered sulke, its hracteas linear-lanceolate 



acuminate. Flo 



, u hi tc or 



faintly spotted with f 



buff-colour. Scpah from a yatl 



broad ovato-lanceolate base, tnpcrin;?, the mperior sepal into a comparutively short 



