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RODRIGUEZIA secunda. 
Sideflowered Rodriguezia. 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Oncnipem. Sect. Epidendree. 
RODRIGUEZIA, Fl. Peru.  Perianthium tetraphyllum ringens : 
foliolis superioribus erectis ; inferiore labello supposito, Labellwm integrum an- 
ticum unguiculatum basi cornutum medio callosum : ungue column parallelo. 
Columna teres apice barbata. Antheraunilocularis. Pollinia 2 posticé ex- 
cayata filo elastico adherentia. Gynizus lobatus. Herbee epiphyte. 
(Americee eequinoctialis.) Folia carnosa avenia disticha vaginantia, Spicee 
axillares secunde. Flores speciost. — 
R. secunda ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis apice obliquis emarginatis basi laxis 
vaginantibus. 
R. secunda. Humboldt, Bonpl. et Kunth. nov. gen. et sp. pl. 1 p. 367. t. 92. 
synops. 1.348. 
R. lanceolata. Bot. Cab. 676. 
Pleurothallis? coccinea. Hooker, exot. flora, 129. 
Planta epiphyta, acaulis. Folia disticha, basi vaginantia, decidua, 
patentia, ovali-lanceolata, complicata, enervia, apice obtusa, mucronulata, 
obliqua ; superiis bast incrassato, compresso, ancipite, corrugato, bulboideo. 
Spice azillares, multiflori, cernui, pedunculati, foliorum longitudine ante 
expanstonem tritict spicam referentes. Flores pulchré rosei, secundi. Peri- 
anthium 4-partitim, ringens, laciniis superioribus ovalibus, conniventibus, 
inferrore cymbiformi, emarginato, labello supposito. Labellum liberum, 
unguiculatum ; ungue facier columne applicito, marginato, basi extis car- 
noso, cornuto; lamina cuneata, emarginata, obsolete trinervi, medio carnosd, 
basi callosd, callo elevato marginato. Columna teres, clavata, pubescens, 
apice bidentata. Clinandrium nudum, retrorsdm declive, anticé pulvinatum. 
Pollinia duo, albida, cereacea, postice excavata, filo communi elastico glan- 
dule affiza. Anthera unilocularis, carnosa, anticée truncata. Gynizus sub- 
quadratus, apertus, utrinque cornutus, apice demim emarginatus. 
A beautiful parasitical orchideous plant, which was 
introduced about the year 1818, from Trinidad. It is 
more easily cultivated than the greater part of its tribe, 
growing freely, and flowering in abundance in a damp 
stove among rotten tan and decayed vegetable mould. 
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