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GO ODYERA discolor 
Brasil Goodyera. 
nee promrs: 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Oxcuipem. Jussieu gen. 64. Brown prod. 309. 
Div. II. Anthera stigmati parallela persistens. Masse pollinis v. fae 
rinaceee v. € corpusculis angulatis ; apicibus stigmati affixee. Brown in Hort. 
Kew. ed. 2. 5. 197. : 
GOODYERA. Cor. ringens: petalis exterioribus anticis labello infern 
gibboso superné indiviso suppositis. Colwmna libera. Pollen angulatum. 
Brown loc. cit. , 
. 
Div. IT. Petalis exterioribus anticis horizontali-patentibus. 
G. discolor, rhizomate horizontali, caudescente, foliis discoloribus ovalibus 
crassiusculis, spica multiflora, ungue labelli ad basin bullato-didymo 
adnatoque lamina transversé oblonga. 
Rhizoma carnosum subrepens, radicato-caudescens, cylindricum crassitu- 
dine digiti, foliorum vestigiis annulatum, fusco-sanguineum, superne foliosum, 
indivisum. Folia ambientia, sparsa, discolora, vaginoso-petiolata vagind 
sanguineo-rubente ; lamina crassiuscula, ovalis, utringue attenuata, acuminata, 
subtriuncialis, supra papillis atomoideis densis lucido-pruinata, atro-virens 
aliqud irrepente rubedine, subtis glabrata punicea longitudinalitér nervosa 
nervorum intervallis flecuoso-venosa. Scapus simplex erectus cylindraceus, sub- 
nedalis, teres crassitudine tubt penne scriptorie vel majore, albo-hirsutus, 
bracteis aliquibus vacuis florum majoribus appressis hic indé munitus. Spica 
simplex, erecta, cylindracea, subtriuncialis, laxiis multiflora. Bractese mem-~ 
branose@, rubicunde, pruinoso-micantes, lanceolato-acuminate, convolute, 
longiores germine, 3-nerves, erect, cuspidate, subciliate. Flores supinati, 
nutantes, sessiles, nivei, crucidto-ringentes, } partes uncie transversi: germ, 
semunciale, album, hirsutum, tortum, apice Hci, sublongius corolla: cor. 
tetrapetaloidea; pet. a@quilonga, extertora pruinoso-opaca, wnteriora pruinoso- 
lucida; galea ovato-elliptica, erecta, obtusa, disco extrorsim gibbosa, formata 
petalis 2 \ateralibus interioribus dimidiato-lanceolatis angustis cum media ovale 
duplo latiori ad suum marginem utringue imbricato-subcoherentibus; pet. 2 
exteriora lateralia oblongo-ovata acumine obtuso, horizontali-divaricata, rictum 
floris exacté decussantia, angustiora galed, deorsiim obliquata lateribus moda 
tali depressis ut promineat discus, extis apice macula parvd cinnamomeo= 
vubente notata; labellum difforme, indivisum, concolor, unguiculatum ; unguis 
3-plo magisve longior lamina, lineart-oblongus, subtubuloso-convolutus, a saccula 
brevissimo didymo-hemispherico anticé Fibullato-protuberante adnatus bast 
column; lamina brevis transverse oblonga integerrima apiculo obsoleto, bast 
levissime subcordata, glabra. Columna alba, duplo_fere brevior corolla, libera, 
erectiuscula, inferné cylindrica, supra posticé subdidymo-gibbosa, flavescens, 
lucida, vertice depresso: anth. opercularis, persistens, bilocularis, receptacula 
oblongo acuminato antrorsiim incumbente processit glanduloso rostellattm pro- 
ducto atque areolam papulosam secernentem stigmatis taco obumbrante : 
masse pollinis bine sulphuree pedicellato-clavate, é lo hulis obversis pressione 
angulosis axim elasticam glutinosam imbricatim contegentibus conflate. Differt 
Goopveris veris habitt valde robustiore atque carnosiore, charactereque tenis 
ex petalis 2 extimis alarum instar dispansis, neque labello suppositis atque col- 
laterali-conniventibus; alias vero plurimiim cum genere consentit. 
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