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TAB XXVI.
S O B R A L I A * DECORA:
P R E T T Y SOBRALIA.
T i i i D o s : EPIDENDREiE.—Lixdley.
S o B B A L i A , FI. Pena-• Pei'ianlhilun miixinuiiii, |ictaloidoiim, subiiMiualc ;
s c p a l i s pateiitibus vol relloxis, pctalis erectis. Labellum ciiciilhituin, coluiniiani
a i i i p l e x a n s , basi angiistaliim, disco plicato-bai-batum, apice bilobiini. Columna
e l o n g a t a , ma rgina t a , clavata, apieia Irilidi lobo medi o cucul iat o anllieriiero. Stigma
m a r g i n a t u m , basi gibbcve gemino nectarifero. Antiiera terminal is, stipitata, semiq
u a d i - i i o c u r a i ' i s . Poilinia larinacea, 4 , compressa, |)ostieù cobierentia et contortup
l i c a t a , e c a u d i c u l a t a .—He r b ® Americana; a>(|uinoctialcs, ter rcst res, simplices, siepe
t v i o r g y a l e s , foliosissimie ; loiiis piicatis; (loribus racemosi« terminaiibus, vei axill
a r i b u s , niveis, i-oseis, sanguineis, violaceisve, siepius speciocissimis. Oinnes fere
s p e c i e s loca rupestria, sicca, aprica, caiidissima eligunt, dunieta sa'pe ampia
f o v m a n t e s . — i i i i r f / . Gen. Spe. Orch. p. 176.
decora ; mlicibus dense tasciculiitis, ciiulibus breviblls piicatis ; rtoribus soiitiiriis cernuis
lis petaiisque klioribus brevioribus osplanatis, lallceolatis aculis apicibus reflcxis, labollo
Son
patentibus, sepalis petalisque
obovato crispo medio iiuaellato marginibus dilatatis ciispis.
llahital in Gmtcmaitl.—SüiNXEn.
D c s c f í i J l t o n .
BOOTS veni mm,emus, Jleslii,, hamlled toiieúm- ill huge musses. STEMS frmu one to two feet
high, leafg, ami in part corered, though not tUichhj. irith small hairs. Lr.ARE.l lanceolate, acmiunaté,
piicated, about si.c inches lung. FLUWEHS solitanj, produced in sueeessiou frmu the su-ollei,
extremities of the stems, lasting out,, a single dag. S|¡P.^LS an inch and a half long, lanceolate,
acute eurred buch,curds, of a faint lilueish white. PETALS broud«- and shorter thau the sepals,
curved onlg at the e.vtrn„ities, uhite fused into rose-colour don;, their cmlre. LJP cucullale,
oborute, curled at the margin, which is also bent „„twards,.^an inch and a half long, externallg oj
rose-colour, in the iusiile along the dish prettilg strcohed with yellow, ami proculcd also with
numerous small lamella!, which traverse it lougitudiualhj. COLUMy almost concealed bg the lip,
an inch long, and at its apci, which is three-clift, bearing a gcllow AXTIIEII.
T h e presonl is tlie second Scbruliu tl.at l.as flo«-ered in Enropean collections, but allllougli a pretty
and intercstin? plant, it is by no means an adequate representative of ll,e splendid gen»s to belongs,
eontainin., as^loes tl,e latter, several of the most sl,o«y plants i>. the order. It is to be hoped, however,
that the itmers of some of these will shorUy adorn onr stoves, into wkicb two of the very Imest, i,. ,„acra,d ,a
•md i' liliaslrum, have already found their »ay. .And fortunately, whatever ddbculttes may attend the
introdaction of tire species of this lovely genus, none are e.perieuced ¡0 their cultivation, as d.ey all appear
• So cnlltil by iIil- nuiliora of 11... Horn nftcT Don Ftraidsca Martin Sobral, u botónisr of lltiir ncquainmiirc.
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