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GLOSSULA tentaculata. 
Long-horned Glossula. 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
_ Nat. ord. ORCHIDER. Sect.1. Orchidee vere. Pollen granulosum. 
Anthera terminalis erecta persistens. 
GLOSSULA.—Sepala in galeam conniventia: supremo. ecalcarato. 
Labellum anticum calcaratum tripartitum: calcare inflato. Pollinia 2} tri- 
partita, glandulis 2, cucullis duobus discretis inclusis. Herba chinensis; 
radice simplice. Habenarix cucullate aspectu, floribus herbaceis spicatis 
vix spiralibus. : 
G. tentaculata. 
Radix tuber fusiformis, simplex. Yolia 3, radicalia, cesia, plana, 
elliptica, basi amplexicaulia, subquinquenervia, horizontalia, glaberrima. 
Scapus erectus, spithameus, glaber, teres, squamis, quarum infima foliacea, 
vaginatus. Flores spicatt, parvi, herbacet, via spirales, sed undique versi. 
Bractex ovate, acuminate, ovarti longitudine. Ovarium tortum, angulis, 
sepalis cxterioribus oppositis, costatis. Sepala in galeam conniventia, ovato- 
elliptica, equalia, interiora exterioribus pallidiora. Labellum cum basi co- 
lumne connatum, 3-partitum, lacinia intermedia lingulata, calcare longiore, 
dependente, lateralibus multo longioribus, porrectis, varie lexis, filiformibus ; 
disco inter sinus laciniarum gibboso; calcar e bast labelli ortum, sepalorum 
longitudine, ovale, inflatum, compressum, ad collum constrictum... Anthera 
brevis, terminalis, ovata, erecta, persistens, bilocularis, loculis discretis. 
Gynizus area madida infra antheram, superne in processu inter loculos erecto, 
convoluto, anther fere longitudine, deorsum in cuculla duo desinente pro- 
ductus. Pollinia 2, bipartita, granulosa, quoque filo brevi glandule affixo, 
in sinu cucullorum jacentis. Tuberculum granulosum antheram ad basin 
utringue adstat. 
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This very curious little Orchideous plant was brought 
from China, in 1824, by Mr. John Damper Parks, an assi- 
duous collector in the service of the Horticultural Society. 
Our drawing was made at the Chiswick Garden, last De- 
cember. 
The character of this plant depending entirely upon the 
structure of its minute green flowers, we have caused a 
more detailed representation of them to be prepared than 
can usually be afforded in publications so cheap as this is. 
Fig. 1, shows a side view of the flower, much magnified. 
Fig. 5, the same, seen in front. Fig. 3, is a representation 
of the anther and spur, with ue front part of the labellum 
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