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GEODORUM dilatatum. ‘ 
‘Shovel-liy’ d Geodorum. — ‘ 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDER. Brown prod. 1. 309. Sect. V. “Antler ermi- 
minalis, mobilis, operculiformis; decidua. _ Pollinis massa cereacere, lives. 
Parasitice, pauce Terrestres. Brown |. c. 330. we 
GEODORUM. Jackson in Andrews’s reposit. 626. Labellum cucul- 
lato-ventricosum (nunc basi calcaratum), sessile, cum columna non articu- 
latum. Petala conformia subsecunda. _ Masse pollinis 2, posticé lobulo 
aucte. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 207. Plantw (Indie orientalis, 
Nove Hollandiz)) terrestres. ) ee ; ShNS 2 
OBS. Genus Mauaxipi proximum habiti, nec multim-absimile, struc- 
turd column florisque expansione. Br. prod. 1. 332; sub fine observa- 
tionis CYMBIDIO picto (nunc im GEODORUM transponendum) appense. 
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G. dilatatum, scapo foliis' breviore, spicd pendula: floribus congestis, la- 
bello subcalearato; apice dilatato crenulato. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed.2. 
5.207. - : 
Limodorum recurvum. Roxburgh corom. 1.33. t. 39. Swartz nov. act. 
ups. 6.79. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 124. s 
Lerrestris, bulbo subrotundo, fibris crassis radicato. Fol. subtrina, 6- 
uncialia ad pedalia, erecta, lanceolata, latitudine 3-4-unciali, 5-nervia, 
basi vaginoso-complexa, lamind submembranaced; scapus radicalis, extra 
foliaceus, erectus, virens, teres, cavus, glaber, 5-9-uncialis, foliis brevior, 
crassitie fere penne scriptorie, foliis paucis (3°) vaginosis supra in bracteas 
descrescentibus acuminatis instructus ; superné reflexus. Racemus cernuus, 
multiflorus, imbricato-sparsus, subcapitato-abbreviatus: bractex lineari-lan- 
ceolate, germen equantes. Germ. sessile, rectum, viride, corollé. brevius, 
rotundaté costatum. Cor. nutans, carneo-albicans, sublabiato-campanulata, 
semuncia vix longior: petala 5, concolora, in labium summum patulum im- 
bricato-convergentia, exteriora trina, sibi similia, cuneato-oblonga, dorso 
subcarinata, apiculo acuto: interiora bina duplo ferme latiora, sublongiora, 
pallidiora, teneriora, lineari-oblonga, plana, obtusata, dorso baseos carinato- 
gibbosa: labellum petalis exterioribus equilongum, roseo-pictum, rectum, la- 
tum, retusum, superneé areola internd luted calloso-incrassata in diseo promi- 
nula notatum, inferne in ventrem oblique cavum convolutum, extds ‘supra 
ventrem scrobiculo utrinque impressum indeque carinatum, supra in laminam 
summam brevem patulam rotundato-retusam uirinque r 
eflecam crenulatamque 
extensum; quoad axin spice interius. Columna libera, petalis 3-plo fere 
brevior, ochroleuco-pallens, rectum, obovatum, cum: brevi a 
concaviusculum, anticé planiusculum curvulum: anth. operculiformis, oblato- 
rotunda, convextuscula, lutea, acumini erecto columne 
posticé tnserta, 
decidua, extis pruinosa (clinandrium. cicatricibus binis puniceis sub siti: 
loculorum pollinis conspicuée notatum!). Stigma area cava secernens oblato- 
subrotunda columne concolora, anthere immediate subjectum, 
¢ supra margine 
prominuld cinctum. 
cumine, posticc 
