TRIBRACHIA pendula. 
Drooping Tribrachia. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat.ord. Orcutpex. Tribus Malaxidee Lindl. coll. bot. in app. 
TRIBRACHIA. Supra, t. 832.—Pollinia duo cereacea posticd sulcata : 
caudicula et glandula nullis. Anthera terminalis, opercularis, decidua, semi- 
bilocularis membranacea. Columna apice bicirrhosa. Labellum posticum, 
integrum, cum basi producta columne unguiculatum. Sepala patentia: late- 
ralibus exterioribus cum basi columne connatis; interioribus nanis. 
Herbee epiphyte, acaules, bulbose (Asice temperate et Africas equinoctialis) ; 
caudicibus reptantibus ; scapis radicalibus ; floribus parvis. Lindley collect. _ 
bot. tab. 41, A. : 
T. pendula ; foliis ovalibus subtis discoloribus apice ineequalibus emarginatis 
in bulbis ovatis compressis solitariis, scapis pendulis, spicis imbricatis, 
sepalis ovatis acuminatis: interioribus obovatis. Lindl. 1. c. in textu. 
Bulbi ovati, carnosi, subteretes. Folia solitaria, 2-3-uncialia, ovalia, 
patentia, apice oblique emarginata, carnosa, plana, subtits purpureo maculata. 
Scapi radicales, penduli, bracteis distantibus angustis acutis squamost. 
Flores an spicd quadrifariam imbricati, parvi, recti. Bractew florum longi- 
tudine, ovate, acuminate, diaphane, rubicunde. Ovarium breve, rectum, 
turbinatum, ecostatum. Perianthium regulare, patens, ovario longius. Sepala 
exteriora @qualia, triangularia, acuta, valvata, enervia, viridia, ciliata: 
lateralia basihus cum columne pede connatis ; interiora abbreviata, obovata, 
pallide viridia, obtusa. Labellum parvum, rubro-purpureum, ovatum, integer- 
rimum, per axin carnosum, bast excavatum, cum sinu sepalorum lateralium 
exteriorum articulatum, in columnd incumbens. Columna brevis, recta, 
semiteres, ad basin producta usque ad sinum sepalorum exterrorum later- 
alum. Stigma excavatum, marginibus inflexis semiclausum, apice utrinque 
aristatum. Anthera terminalis, opercularis, persistens, ut credo \-locularis. 
Pollinia duo, subrotunda ; quodque intis sulco exaratum obscuro, lobum mi- 
norem simulante. Caudicula et glandula nulle. 
Sent to the Horticultural Society in 1822, from Sierra 
Leone, by Mr. George Don. Our drawing was made at 
Mr. Colvill’s nursery in October 1824. Like nearly all the 
epiphytal orchideous plants of Sierra Leone, this plant is 
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