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TRIZEUXIS FALCATA. 
Falcate Trizeuxis. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.-Nat. Oto. ORCHIDS^. 
—Sect. V. Br. Prodr. 1, 330. 
Gen. CHAn.^Perianthium bipartitum, lacinia superiore biloba, inferiore tri- 
partita inflata. Labellum columna parallelutn, limbo recurvo dilatato 
Stigma excavatum. Anthera unilocularis carnosa. Pollinis masm 2 pe- 
dicello fusiformi carnoso adhaerentes, ipsis duplo longiori. Arb^ibus 
parasihccB. Folia pauca, disticka. Racemi compositi. Flores non resum- 
nati. — ( Lindl.) ^ 
TAzeuids falcata; foliis falcatis enervibus, floribus confertis. 
T. falcata, Lindl. Collect. Bot. t, 2. 
Parasitic on the trunks of trees. fibrous, brown. Leaves dhtlchous 
recurvo-falcate, acute, laterally compressed, and thus vertical, fleshy' 
glaucous green, grooved at the base for the reception of the lower part 
of those leaves which are placed immediately above them 
Scape axiUary from the base of the plant, four or five inches high, panicu- 
late, branched almost from the base, the branches as well as the branch- 
lets alternate, distichous and patent, slender, terete. Bracteas small 
green, placed at the base of every flower, and of every ramification, su- 
bulate. Fbrvers collected into conical heads at the extremity of the ra- 
muh, small pale yellow-green, resupinate, according to the common ac 
ceptation of the term, as applied to this family; that is, the germen is 
not twisted and the parts of the inflorescence are in their proper situa- 
tion Petab nearly equal ; upper ones, or segments of the perianth the 
smallest, oblong, united together for more than half their length from 
the base. Two lateral petals very concave, so as to be almost semicy- 
Imdrical, but when spread open they are nearly ovate. Lower petal 
ovate, very gibbous at the back. Lip a little longer than the corolla, 
standing forward, and somewhat appressed to the column, oblong, 
grooved, 3-lobed, green at the base, deep orange at the extremity, latS 
ral lobes small, middle one large, recurved, all acute. Column oblong 
aterally compressed, grooved in front, and near its upper part bearing 
the concave stigma. Anther large, transversely oblong, whitish, opercu- 
hform, fixed by the back, l-celled, glandular on the 
Pollen-masses 2, linear-oblong, deep yellow, fixed near the extremity of 
a hnear white stalk; and this, at its base, has an oblong, orange coloured 
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