348 MR. H. N. RIDLEY’S REVISION OF THE 
* On the production of buds on the leaves, Dickie, in Journ. Linn 
Soc. Bot. xiv. p. 1. 
On fertilization, Darwin, Fertiliz. Orch. p. 180. 
This monotypic genus is closely allied to the preceding, and 
especially to the section Dienia, which it resembles in the size 
and form of its flowers. The rhizome is ascending, slender, 
and rootless. The minute pseudobulb is globose, produced at 
the summit of the rhizome; in the second year the rhizome is 
continued laterally to the pseudobulb, and thus parallel to the 
scape; it grows to a length of 1-2 inches before producing the 
next pseudobulb. The leaves are generally three, unequal, oval 
or lanceolate, thin and blunt, and not rarely produce bulbils on 
their margins. The scape is erect and racemose. The flowers 
resemble those of Microstylis, but the lip has no true fovea. The 
stelidia are very short and blunt, while the anther does not fall 
off, or even become partially detached, but shrinks downwards 
leaving the pollinia bare. 
Mataxts PALUDOSA, Swartz, in Stockh. Nya Handl. 1789, p. 127, 
t.6.f.2; Fl. Ind. Occ. p. 1443; Smith, Engl. Bot.t.72; Willd. Sp. 
Pl. iv. p.91; Flora Danica,t. 1233; Reichb. f. Ic. Fl. Germ. vol. xiii. 
p- 165, t. 4095 ; Curtis, Flor. Lond. v. p. 197 ; Baater, Brit. Bot. 
v. p- 894; Remer, Fl. Eur. ii. p. 4; Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. Pl. 
p. 23; Bauer, Ill. Gen. Orch. t. 1; T. Nees, Fl. Germ., Monoc. iii. 
n. 14.—Ophrys paludosa, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1841; Richter, Codex, 
6849.— Epipactis paludosa, F. W. Schmidt, in Mey. Phys. Aufsatz, 
1791, p. 245. 
Planta pusilla, 2-8 uncias alta; rhizoma ascendens tenue; 
pseudobulbus j-uncialis conicus; folia evoluta bina membranacea 
erecta lanceolata vel ovato-lanceolata, 3-1 unciam longa, 4 rarius 
2 unciam lata; scapus 1-6-uncialis, gracilis angulatus, basi longe 
nuda, apice laxe racemoso, 7-35-floro; flores minuti virides resu- 
pinati, pedicellis brevibus ; bracteæ lanceolate acuminate, pedicellis 
zqualibus; sepala ovata obtusa apieibus cucullatis, posticum 
paullisper majus, ovario cum pedicello quali; petala lanceolata 
acuta abrupte recurva, sepalis minora; labellum erectum lan- 
ceolatum cymbiforme obtusum, herbaceo-viride, lineis 4 obscuri- 
oribus in medio; columna brevissima crassiuscula, viridis ; elinan- 
drium erectum, rostellum obtusum ; anthera albescens, loculi 2 
distincti in locellis 4 divisi; pollinia 4 oblonga pyriformia per 
paria connata, ovarium pyriforme valvis placentiferis quam 
steriles bis latioribus; capsula parva erecta  oblongo-globosa, 
pyriformis, costis vix prominulis. 
