The Scientific Notebooks of German Orchidologist Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kränzlin

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Rodriguezia planifolia. Lindl.

Gen. Char. cf. Lindl. gen & sp. 194 Ro. planif. Bulbis valde compressis ovato oblong. fol. lanc. enerviis laevib. perianthio undulato, sepalo infer. (e2 formato) apice solumodo 2fido, labello apice integro.

Bulbs clustered scarcely more than [crossed out: illegible] 2" [crossed out: long] high, pale coloured, much compressed & sharp edged bearing a pair of leaves at the extremity which are lanceolate even on the surface & more or less recurved. Scape arching from the base of the bulb on one side. & from within a leafy sheath, short, bearing rather a long drooping raceme of many fragrant greenish yellow flowers more remarkable for their scent than their beauty. Sep. oblong, waved, acute, the 2 lateral or lower ones combined together for nearly their whole length, the extremities straight not in the least spreading. Lip broadly oblong, yellow, crested at the base with 2 crenate white membranes & bearing 2 oblong tubercles near the middle where the lip is very suddenly & much reflexed, the apex rather acute, entire. Column nearly white, semicylindrical with a deep orange margin round the stigma. Anthers hemispherical. Germen clavate, subtended by a white membranous, sheathing bractea, nearly as long as itself.