. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . iy denseincumbent hair, 7-9-nerved, quite entire. Panicle brachiate,terminal, composed of branchlets which are in general violet-purple, bracteate, about an inch in 3 or 2, of the length of the calyx, silky, placed un-der each of the floral fascicles, caducous. Calyx tubular,not unaptly likened by Lamarck to the form of a Clove,silkily villous, fivecleft; segments shorter than the tubularpart, smooth on the inside. Petals 5, obovate, a littlelonger than the calyx, spreading, smooth on the inside,hairy
. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . iy denseincumbent hair, 7-9-nerved, quite entire. Panicle brachiate,terminal, composed of branchlets which are in general violet-purple, bracteate, about an inch in 3 or 2, of the length of the calyx, silky, placed un-der each of the floral fascicles, caducous. Calyx tubular,not unaptly likened by Lamarck to the form of a Clove,silkily villous, fivecleft; segments shorter than the tubularpart, smooth on the inside. Petals 5, obovate, a littlelonger than the calyx, spreading, smooth on the inside,hairy on the outside. Stamens ten, longer than the co-rolla: filaments of the colour of the petals, bowed inwards,having two small tubercles at the top below tlie anther:anthers linear, falcate, fixed on at their base. Germen ob-longly ovate, with an umbilicus of 5 very villous teeth, 5-valved, 5-celled, many-seeded. We have depended uponMonsieur Bonpland for the description, which was takenfrom the dried plant, as w^ell as the figure we have cited fromhis 324 DISA Disa, G^TV^ANDRIA MOXAXDRIA. Nat. ord. Orchide^. Jussieu gen, 64. Brotvn prod. 309. Div. adnata subterminalis persistens. Pollinis massce e lobulis angulatiselastice cohaerentibus; basi affixae. Broxvn in Hoii, Kew, ed. 2. 5. 188. VISA. Supra vol. 210. Div. Calcare longiore,D. bracteata, galea obtusa, calcare oblongo, labello lineari apice latiore,spica cylindrica, bracteis erectis floribus longioribus. Sivartz act. holm^1800. 211. Disa bracteata. WiUd. sp. pi. 4. 48. Siva7-fz in Schraders neues journ. furdie bot. 1. 28. Exemp. spout, in Herb. Banks, repostum,T\anta spitJiamcea. Tubev subrotu)idu7n. Folia caulina plura (5-6) Ian-ceoJata erecta concaviuscula. Spica multijiora bipoUicaris. Bracteae altitu-dine circiterjiorum, JoliacecB, lanceolatcr acumine brevi. Germ. ci/Iindraceumtortum in jiore expanso, subsessile. Flores pa?-vif luteo-virides galea pallide fusca^ erecti. G
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