Wie LILIFOLIA. Lnwv-sare Manat 
Gynanpria Monanpria. _ 
Generic Character. 
__ Labellum explanatum, indivisum, sessile (sepius soceen 
Petala 5, angustiora, patula, vel. deflexa: Masse Pollinis 
A, parallel, apicibus stigmati affixe. Brown. 
Lrraris. Richard. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Mataxis lili ifolia ; foliis binis ovato-lanceolatis, scapo trique- 
tro, petalis interioribus reflexis discoloribus, labello con- 
cavo obovato apice acuto. Swartz Act. Holm. 1800. p. 
235. Willd. Sp. Pl. 4. p. 92. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. 
p. 208. Ehret Phil. Trans. 1763. n. 53. p. $1. t.4.— 
Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept. 592. 
Opurys lilifolia ; bulbo subrotundo, scapo aa. foliis lance. © 
olatis, nectarii labio neat ots B dorsalibus linearibus, 
Sp. Pl. 1341. Reich. 4 Bot, Repos. 65. Gron, 
Virg. in. ed. 2. p 138 
Opurys scapo nudo, foliis radicalibus ovato-oblongis dimidii_ 
scapi Jongitudine. Gron. Virg. ed. 1. p. 185. 
Epidendrum caule erecto simplicissimo nudo, racemo simplici 
erecto. Gron. Virg. p. 140. 
a 
We have continued this plant under the name given it b 
Swartz, and adopted in the Hortus Kewensis ; being un 
ling, where possible to avoid it, to make any change in ~ 
established nomenclature. Otherwise we are 
agree with M. Ricuarp, that it does not at all accord with 
the character of Malaxis. This author in a very ingenious 
paper on the European OrcuipE#, published ‘in the = 
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