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HETEROTAXIS crassifolia. 
Thick-leaved Heterotaxis. 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat.word: Gncnipen. Tribus II. Arethuseze. Zandi. coll, bot. append. 
Orchid. Scelet. p. 10. 
HETEROTAXIS.—Pollinia 2, (v. 4% binatim connata) linearia,, pul- 
yerea; caudiculé glanduldque nullis. Anthera terminalis opercularis deci- 
dua unilocularis, septis duobus incompletis, _ Stigma oblongum excavatum ; 
rostello obsoleto. Colwmna semiteres apice alata. Labellwm ovatum liberum 
integrum carnosum disco callosum. Sepala subeequalia conniventia carnosa; 
2 inferioribus labello suppositis. Herba terrestris acaulis (Americ 
wquinoctialis), foliis carnosis aveniis, scapo radical vaginato. 
Heterotaxis crassifolia. 
Herba acaulis, terrestris, an epiphyta? folis radicalibus, erectes, carnosts, 
oblongo-lanceolatis, oblique torts, planis, aventis, apice oblique wneinato- 
apiculatis, basi vaginantibus. Flos luteus, soktarius, radicalis, bracted 
unicd oblonga vaginatus, subsessilis ad basin foliorum, vix supra humum 
elevatus. Sepala carnosa, conniventia, oblonga, concava, subequalia ; exte- 
riora apice viridia, apiculata ; interiora breviora, tenmora. Labellum antecum, 
liberum, integrum, ovatum, acutum, sepalis subconforme, disco medio calloso, 
sepalis anticis exterioribus suppositum. Columna semiteres, clavata, trun- 
cata, apice utringue alata; stigma excavatum, oblongum, quadratum ; 
clinandrium parvum, rostello obsoleto. Anthera terminalis, opercularis, © 
decidua, carnosa, verrucilosa, hemispherica, unilocularis: septis duobus 
incompletis. Pollinia. duo, v. quatuor, ut potiis opinor, binatim coherentia, 
Linearia, hinc. crassiora, é granulis plurimis minutis, angulatis, filo axili 
elastico coherentibus. 
This very remarkable undescribed plant was introduced 
from Jamaica by the late Mr. Lee, of the Hammersmith 
Nursery, in 1823. Our drawing was made in the month of 
June of the following year. Not having however had, 
at that time, an opportunity of examining the pollen- 
masses, we were obliged to defer the publication of the 
plant till the present time, when we are enabled to com- 
plete its history by means of a fresh specimen with which 
