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G E O D O R U M C I T R I N U M.
Lemon-coloured Geodorum.
CLASS XX. ORDEll L
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. St y l e bearing the Stamens. Stamen One.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
P É T A L A quinqué, longitudine subaequalia, patcnlia.
Labellum cymbiforrae ; carimi
posticè pauló producía. Anthera terminalis,
opercularis, decidua. Massse poUinis
duas, reniformes, cereaceas.
P E T A L S five, about an equal length, spreading.
Lip boat-shaped, with the keel a little prolonged
behind. Anther terminal, cover-like,
deciduous. Masses of pollen two, kidneyshaped,
waxy.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A blossom spread open, divested of the lip.
2. The lip detached.
L I T T L E more than sixty years ago, Mr. Miller, the best informed gardener of his lime and emphati-
L l v s t v lTbVf o r e S he was known by his writings, ' Hort u anorum Princeps; after
cany st>ieQ d> loiciguci,, , JU; f Diet onary which he published, when
forty years experience m S ^ n . n g n the jf ^^^^^^^^^ to enumerate them hef^3, as the plants
c u U i U t e t u L ground^ through, could the P ^ - be b r o u g h ^
bv culture many of them produce very fine flowers of uncommon forms. -Geniu s and perseveiance, hL e^r havrcoran etely vanquished this prejudice, and we now cultívale more species of £p.denho^
i ever have completely ,, , f ¿ jj j^a^g ^.een considered as such, than he supposed
drum m Eng and or ^^^^ with cultivators than those of the beautiful i s l i i s s i ^
'^^^^hl t^ e ^ S t October, and the plant was still in blossom in the end of
i S i S i i i i i i f s i i S i e n t efg"ryeai; bo,ant ing in South America, that more thanathousanddist.net species grow there
upon the sides of the Cordilleras !
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