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“CRYPTARRHENA Iunata. 
Crescent-lipped Cryptarrhena.. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Orcuipem. Jussieu gen. 64. Brown prod. 309. __. 
Div. IV. Anthera terminalis mobilis decidua. Masse pollinis 
demim cereaceew. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5.205. 
CRYPTARRHENA. Petala 5, distincta patentia. Labellum 
ecalcaratum: damina dilatata explanata. Columna libera, aptera. -An- 
thera apice cucullato columnz inclusa, porrecto-adscendens. Masse 
pollinis quatuor. Brown MSS. . 
Cryptarrhena dunata. Brown MSS. 
Herba humilis. Folia radicalia numerosa, multifariam ambientia, pa= 
tentia, crassiuscula, carnosa, remotiits nervosa, exteriora recumbentia, sub- 
ovato-lanceolata, acuminata, subtriuncialia, leté virentia, interiora erectiora, 
lineari-lanceolata. Caulis longior istis, striato-teres, crassitudine penne 
corvine, inferné foliolis paucis ateneseniiate erectis vage stipatus. Spica 
subbiuncialis, inclinata, laxitis digesta, nuda, Flores viridi-lutei, vix tertiam 
partem uncie transversi. 
We had not the opportunity of inspecting the flower of 
this plant after the drawing was made; but to the greater 
advantage of Botany, Mr. Brown has had that opportunity. 
He has found it an unrecorded vegetable, and to possess 
features so distinct from those already known of the tribe, 
as to make it expedient that it should form the foundation 
of a new generic group. 
All we know of its history is, that it was lately received 
by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, of the Hammersmith nursery, 
from Jamaica, and that it flowered in one of their hothouses 
in the course of last summer. 
A humble herbaceous’species; and, judging by analogy, 
probably parasitic. Leaves radical, numerous, ambient, 
multifariously patent, fleshy, thickish, loosely nerved, of 
a bright grass-green colour: outer recumbent broadest, lan- 
ceolate, and somewhat ovate, acuminate, three parts of an 
inch across, almost three inches in length; inner more up~ 
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