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lobulo postico. 
686 
EULOPHIA guineensis. 
Sterra Leone Eulophia. 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORcHIDER. Jussieu gen. 61. Brown prod. 1. 300. Div. IV. 
Anthera terminalis mobilis decidua, Masse pollinis demdm cereacez. 
Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 205. 
- EULOPHIA. Brown supravol.7. fol. 578; in textit anglice. Petala 
5 distincta, conformia, adscendentia, patentia. Labellum basi calcaratum ; 
lamina sessili cristatd triloba, posticé indivisa. Masse pollinis 2, bilobe 
E, guineensis, foliis lanceolatis: labelli caleare subulato adscendente lami- 
nam subxquante; lamin lobis lateralibus cum columnd in faucem 
lineato-cristatam conyolutis; terminali grandiore oyato-rotundato con- 
vexé explanato, disco erugato. _ Br 
Bulbus externus, viridis, oblongo-ovatus,  dilatatis foliorum basibus com- 
pactus. Fol. plura, radicalia, sparsa, leté virentia (non glauca), petio- 
lata; lamind lenté (non rigente), lanceolata, nervosd, acuminatd, spitha- 
med v.magis latitudine biunciali v. circitér: petiolus multoties angustior, 
aliquoties brevior, pallidus. Scapus imo bulbo ortus, solidus, teres, erec- 
tus, virens, inferne imbricaté superné remote vaginatus, foliis altior (sesqui- 
pedalis). Wagine membranacee, purpureo-lineate, lamind lanceolata erectd. 
Spica stricta, multiflora, sparsa, laxa, simplex. Bractez ‘herbaceo-pallen- 
tes, erectiuscule, lanceolate, nervose, germine subbreviores. Flores pul- 
chelli, subsesquiunciales, resupinati, nutantes, semiringentes, inodort. Germ. 
uncid sublongius, gracile, virens, adscendens, tortum, teretiusculum, obiter 
costatum, superne incrascescens rubro-fuscescens atque recurvum. Pet*. 5, di- 
stincta, viridi-purpurea, lurida, lineari-oblonga, acuta, recta, conformia, ' 
intts convexiuscula, extits obsolete nervosa, 5 uncie longa, in labium radiato- 
semiforme equabile erectiusculum adscendentia, basi vivide purpurea, mar- 
gine pallentia undulata, 2 interiora latiora (latitudine subtrilineari): La- 
bellum deflexum, difforme, basi calcaratum; calcar recte continuum, ad- 
scendens, lamind subequilongum, subulatum, pallide virens, obtusum, supra 
dilatatum dorso carinato-compresso, fine sursim flexo; lamina sessilis, pe- 
talis vix brevioribus pluriés latior, oblonga, carnco-albicans, triloba, con- 
verula, infra in faucem cristis pluribus lineeformibus calloso-verrucula- 
tis viridibus parallelis parim elevatis symmetrice inscriptam convoluta, supra 
explanata ; obi laterales abrupte truncati erosuli cum lateribus extenua- 
3 . . FS . . x ie . 
tis incumbentis columne involuto-conniventes et inferne connati,; medius | 
magnus recto-continuus ovato-rotundatus explanatus convexulus undulatus’ 
erugatus, intus radiis pluribus purpureis de basi citra medium usque pergen- 
tibus pictus. Columna deflexa, subalato-dilatata, lobis lateralibus labelli 
aqualis, posticé convexa subvirescens et apice in marginem rubidam brevem 
bicrenatam extensa, anticé acclivi-obliquata plana nitida alba. Anthera 
chloroleuca, decidua, oblata, convean, summam columnam operculans, secun- 
dim latus posterius impage carnosé pruinosé brevi transverse dilataté trifidé 
(lobulis 2 extimis intra crenas marginis postice columne immissis) munita, 
bilocularis septo (ob retractas induplicatas valvas) deficiente, antrorsim de- 
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