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C H A R A C T E R DIFFERENTIAL IS.
CALVCIS reslipinali folíola coniiivenlia ; exteriora laleralia basi labello
e c a l c a r a t o gjnoslemoqiie, in urceolom conjunclis , adnala. LABELLI jrars
l i b e r a linearis, apice subspatbulala. AMTUERA lermi i ial i s , operculata. POLLI.NLS
massic ( fuatuor , sessiles, cereaceie.
HERBA parasitica. GAULIS foliatus. Spie® terminales.
C H A R A C T E R NATURALIS.
CAI.TX p rofunde sexpar t i lus, resiipinalus , clausus ; foliola exteriora laler
a l i a basi labello gynostemoi |ue conjunctis adnala, plana; superius, in llore
r e s u p i n a t o inferius, l iberum, concavum ; (bliola intcrioia lat. ral i a celeris
a n g u s l i o r a , libei a ; sextum (labellum) basi cum gynosteino in urcroluin
c o n n a l u m , ecalcaratum; pars libera linearis, carnosa, ascendens, apice
spatliulala. GYNOSTEMUM breve. ANTH ERA tcrniiiialis , opprculala. POLI.INIS
niassEc q u a t u o r , subglobosse, sessiles, cereaceas.OVARIUM cosiatuin. CAPSULA
ignota.
HABITUS. IIERB.E parasi t ica; , caulescentes.GAULIS foliatus, simplex.FLORES
t e r m i n a l e s , spicati.
AIFINITAS. Me d i um tenet inter Epidendru m et Dendrobium, ab utrisque
satis distiiictum: labello lineari, apice spaihulato. Generi (Jranicliidis ad-
«pectu floris (anium simile.
ETYMOI.OGIA. EX ^^T^Y, angusta, et YA«W , l ingua , Slcnoglossuni composuiinus.
I. STENOGLOSSUM CORYOPHORUM. t Tab. LXXXVJI.
Crescit in convallibus knmidis, fcslitis yindiuifi I*^ovo^r(iìi(itCftsiuìTi jucctíi urb€?ii ^Imci'
guer in radicibus Parami Cuyurcuensis, alt. 1080 hex. x Floret Noi'embri.
PLANTA parasitica. RABICBS simplices, teretes, glabrae, aibida;. CA ULES ancipiles'í, glabri, adjecla spica
sex- aut decempol litares. FOUA lanceolata, obtusa, carinata, basi vagiiiautia , stria lo-nervo.« , glabra ,
quadripoliiraria, sex aut novem lineas lala. VAOI.N« slrialpj, glabra:; superiores aphylla;, apice aculs.
Spic.t turminalis, solitaria, bi- aui Iripollicaris, FLORES (/G. t.flos clausus,ßg. 2- aperCiis.)hrtvher pedicellali,
bratteati. CALYX clausus, resupinatiis, glaber ,exsiccalus fus cese eii.s ; fcjiola exteriora laleralia
oblique ovata, acula, plana,nervosa , basi labello gjnosiemoque, in urceolum conjunctis , ailuala;superius,
in Gore resupiuato inferius, ovalo-oblongum, acutum, IrinerTÌum, concavum, laieralibus paullo
brcvius, liberum j duo ioteriora ialeralia lanceolata, exteriora longitudine sub^ccjuaatia , lisque tamen
tenuiora; labellura basi cum gyn os temo (_/?§. 3.) in urceolum connatura, ccalcaratuin ; laLelli pars libera
linearis, carno.-a, adscendens, apice siiLspathuIata , lonsjitudine foliolorum exleriornm. ANTHEHA terminalis,
operculata. PoLllNls massa quatuor, subglobosa;, sessiles. OVARIUM glabrum. CAPSULA desidernlur.