ag : a a ae ¢ cg eo 
612, POGONIA, Juss. R. Brown. Anernvsa. L. 
Petals 5, distinct, without glands. Lip ses- 
sile, cucullate, internally crested. Pollen fari- . | 
naceous. pe ee Pca 
ee _ Roots fasciculated, the fibres simple and carnose: scapes 
es mostly bifoliate, 1-flowered; leaves rarely approximating — 
_ yerticillately at the summit of the scape; external petals. 
often very long and linear, the 2 internal then shorter 
: _and connivent; lip abruptly alated from the base, the cen- 
¥ * tre crested, terminating in a simple dilated lobe with a 
= ~~ erenulated or eroded margin. (tn P. ophicglossoides the 
petals are all nearly of the same colour and magnitude.) —[ 
_Svee1es. 1. P. ophioglossoides. 2. divaricata. 3.ver- | } 
= tieillata. .OBs. Root fasciculated, fibres simple and car- 
es, ' nose. Scape about 12 inches high, terete, brownish, and — 
— asin P. divaricata slightly glaucous. Leaves terminal, 
“ vérticillated in 5’s, very smooth, with many nerves, cune- 
ate, oval-lanceolate, and somewhat acute, 2 of theleaves — . 
distinctly interior. The. external petals linear, 2 ‘to 
2 anda half inches long and channelled, colour green-) 
-ish-brown;. the 2 interior petals connivent and longer 
than the lip, oblong, obtuse, paler than the outer. 
3, andl scarcely 1 third their length, internally mark 
2 elevated Hines. Lip horizontal, channelled, ala‘e 
the base, and unconyected with the column, alated 
nflected or cucullate, terminating saree 
lated extremity of the lip; centre of the lip papil- 
ted; extreme limb smooth and dilated, broader 
pendent, and undulated. Genitaliferous column 
than the lip, incurved, solid and subclavate. An- 
horizontal, of e, and “4 
~ den pulverulent. P. medeoloides, Pus. 
- a variety of this species. say 
A North Amferican genus. ms 
RIPHORA.; Areruusa. Swarts. Wil 
‘i Pa. 
Derived by ellipsis from the trivial 
met, Mant. 109. t. 548. f. 6. 
£, 
