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retailatuan cum apice. processus un- 
guiformis, cujus | 
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Dendrobium Chabria Z : 
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: , petalis ellipticis. - isc ia Oo 
Dendrobium Caleeolaria, Caney’s MSS. bee act | # 
“parasge: ‘Roots consisting ae numerous, apie waved, ae stout fleshy 
- fibres, Stem simple, cylindrical, jointed, striated, bearing towards the. 
‘ 
extremity several distichous Tinear-lanceolate, . shining, thickish leaves, 
sheathing at the base... From the lower part of the stem, as it would 
‘appear. (the drawing exactly represents the : specimen communicated), 
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- flowers. yy in & ; 
- springs. the raceme, ies about os, large, very: handsome, and showy 
“Peduncle 6-8 fachell chien jooes. with sheathing siaés at the jain Soja 
.ments.of the perianth nearly equal, elliptical. or ovate, spreading hori- 
ogy Bete) He somewhat waved, the two lowermost running down, along with 
_ the base’ of the colt mn. and of the lip, into” a thickened spur at the base’ | 
a base 0 of the lip. They are of a delicate rose-" 
-wheré ituinites with | the 
y colour,” beautifully: veined | ina reticulated manner ; the spur tawny. 
A Lip erect, jointed upon the prolonged base of the column, and doubled 
4 upon ‘it, large, remarkably ventricose, so as exactly to resemble the lip 
. of a Cypripedium, pale rose-colour, downy, with two deep rich brown 
». spots within ; the base fulvous, attenuated, and forming with that of 
the column into. an. obtuse, broad spur. — Column very short, purple on 
the back, for the greater part of its length united with the perianth, 
: - much prolonged down the front of the. germen. Anther deep. purple, 
- operculiform, attached by a filamentous process to the top of the co- 
lun, 2-celled, each cell having a dissepiment, and. containing two 
a double pollen, in-form oblong, masses approximating and forming two 
p hol © pairs.» Germen very long, pedunculiform, scarcely perceptibly twisted. 
we Ba! * ~ ately thickened upwards... — a viscid, concave disc just beneath : 
wigs “the anther. se | es igs Oe 
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iteribus petal: a tica adnata, -ealcar zemulantia. Mas- 
Waifacens) fils bifariis Riiiehathbionlptie, - 
‘Tacemo: laterali @): ; paucifloro, labello ventricoso inflato, pubescen- 
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