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T H E tílCTON CYUTOCJIÍLUM.
TRIBUS: VANDEyE.—LINDLBV.
C Y R T O C H I L U M . — c f Kunth.—Lindi. Cin . el Sp. Oirh. 210.
P K R I . V N T I I I U M explanatuni. Sépala libera, laleralia uugiilculata. Telala
p a u l o miuora. Labelluni ucalcaraluni, iiullvisum, lingue tiiberculato cuiii ba-si
c - o l i i i u n a ' eontinuo. Columna sícplus alata. Aiithcra bilocularis. Follinia 2,
c a u d i c u l A HUlbrmi, glandulA minuta.—Ilerbie cpipliylu', ])seudo-bulbosa-. Scapi
r a d i c a l e s . Flores speciosi.
CviiTociiiT.L'ii Bictonicnse ; psciiclo-biilbis oblongis compressis 2-3 phyilis, l'üliis liiicari-cnsifoniiibus
scapo tereti exalUilo clupto brcviuribiis, nicemo secundo terminali multirtoro, scpiilis pctiilisque miiiuribiis
civali-lanceolatis acuminalis; labelli laminri corciitbnni basi nudíi ungue laiucllatá; coliminfi alatá.
Ilabilnt in Guatemala. SKIXNER.
i 3 c $ a - t p t i £ i n .
J'SEUJIV-BVLBS obloug, slighlln c.ompresscd, 2 io 4 inches lony; LEAVUH Mnncichal t
narrow-iigtilalc. from a fool to a foot and a half in trnyth, placed some at the base, and others at
the apex of thepsendo-bnlbs. SCAPE from 2 to -i feet high, having, at considerable interral.s, short
loose pointed BII.\CTII, and terminated by a mang-Jioicered sccnnd It A CE.ME. SEI'ALU ami PET ALU
oval-lanceolate, the latter narrower and shorter than the former; both are of a liccbj green,
irregidurli/ blotched ivith reddish, chestnnt. LIP of a purplish rose-colour, heart-shaped, destitute of
teeth or tubercles at its base, bvt bearing two upright plates {which coherc in the centre) on the claw
by which it is articulated with the column. COLUMN only half the length of the lip, furnished with
two rounded slightly decurved Wings.
O U R figure- of this elegant new species of Cyrtochiluvi, is derivec) from specimens obligingly communicutc
ci to us from Bictou, near Exeter, tlie wcll-KNOWD seat of Lord ROI.LE. The name which we have
given to it will not merely serve to conimcnionite the circumstance of its liuving riowcrcd there, but is also
clesigncil as an acknowledgment of the many obligations whicli Botany owes to tJie noble proprietor and lii.s
iiccompiished 1-ady.
jMany a noble Cyrtoc/iilum-f 1ms yet to be introduced from Mexico, in which countr)- the liead-quartors of the
pen us would seem to be fixed. Three species, erroneously referred to OUor/loyloss?ini, have been described by L.v
LI-AVE IUKI LUXAHXA, from the neighbourhood of Valladolid alone; and several others, gathered in Ouxaca by Baron
KAHWISSKI, occtir among the Orcbidaceie of the Royal Munich Herbarium, for the opportunity of exaiiiiniug which we
• So called from vi^jriti convex, mill xt'^o'p 3 l'|>; allusion to die form of the labcllum of some of the specics.
+ Only IITO other spccics of Curtoehilum have u yet blossomDcl in Ungliah colleciions: and Mr. U. II^aaisoN-, of Lircrpool, h;i9 hod (he
honour of iloivering tlicm both fur the first time. One of these (C. mjjiacinuni, lasn. MSS.) is a native of Pern,—ilic other (C. Jlateseent) is laid
to he a native of Mexico j bm as we have nn evidence, beyond tliat of report, to establish the fact, and as we knoiv pwiii>c/y (frotti the circurastancc
nf it.s existing nmoiig M. Ic liaron B. DSIESSIHT'S splendid series of drawings) that it occurs in Broiil, »C have little doubt lint its habitat is exclusively
coiiliiied 10 the latter coinitry.