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vel feptem capfulas fuftinente : radice fibrofa carnofa 
viridi, foliis obvoluta, humi jacente; fibras paacas 
emittente, cui radix anni luperioris contigua et integu- 
mcntis marcidis evoluta pellucida adhaeret.” 
This defcription feemingly correlponds with the 
prefen t plant j but yet Mr. Clayton’s character of 
the feveral parts of the flower is very different 
from thofe, which I have obferved, and reprefen ted 
in this drawing ; and although it may be thought to 
come near to an epidendrum, yet it is neither an 
epidendrum nor a bifolium, as the following defcrip- 
tion of the characters will fufficiently indicate. 
This plant, however, fhould be ranged amongffc 
the fi'rft order of Dr. Linnasus’s clafs of guinandria 
diandria, which confifts of feveral genera. 
The defcription of the characters. 
Tab. III. Fig. a, reprefents a front and fide view 
of the flower, which has but one broad, flat, oval- 
fhaped petal, or leaf, of a pale red colour, marked 
with three veins. It has alfo a fmall point or denti- 
cle projecting at the top of the limbus or margin. 
Fig. b. At the bafe of this broad petal is fituated an 
irregular unequal-divided triphyllus periantheum, con- 
fifting of three narrow feparate leaves, of a pale-green 
colour, and almoft of equal length with the petalum. 
Two of thefe leaves are ereCt, and both gibbous at 
their infertion as in Fig. c , and placed at the back of 
this petal. It would feem as if thefe two leaves were 
fupporters of the corolla: the third leaf is fixed at 
the oppofite fide fronting the flower, opening and 
bending downwards, fee Fig. d. 
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