-GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 197 
A sinall genus, almost exclusively indigenous to Europe, 
America, and India. _ 
620. CORALLORHIZA. . Haller. BR. Brown. 
Cympipium. Willd. | 
“Petals equal and-connivent. Lip mostly pro- 
duced at the base. Column free. Pollinia 4, 
oblique (not parallel.) - 
Roots simply bulbous, of ramified and dentoidly squa- 
mose; leaf radical or none; scape leafless, sheathed, ma- 
_ hy-flowered, flowers nutant, obscurely coloured.—(To this 
genus Mr. R. Brown adds species furnished with an un- 
connected spur. “The United States do not appear to af- 
ford any species with this singular and scarcely congene- 
ric Character; of the 3 enumerated below, one is destitute 
even of any protuberance at the base of the lip.) __ 
’ Spectres. 1. €. innata, R. Brown. Cymbidium Coralio- 
riizon, Willd. sp. pl. 4. p. 109. Lip trifid; spur obsolete, 
every where adnate to the germ; leaves none; capsule ob- 
ovate, Has. In very shady woods, near the Falls of Schuyl- 
kill, five miles from Philadelphia; scarce; also in New 
Jersey. It flowers earlier than the following, and is con- 
siderably larger; petals oblong-lanceolate, connivent; lip» 
inconspicuously produced at the base, bidentate below, the 
dentures inflected. Flowering from September to Oc- 
tober. . 
2. Odontorhiza. Lip entire, oval and obtuse, margin 
crenulate; spur obsolete, every where adnate to the germ; 
leaves none; capsule subglobose. Has. In New Jersey and 
Pennsylvania, abundant. Cymbidium Odontorhizon, Willd. 
—Root much branched, dentate; scape 8 to 10 inches 
high, attenuated and rather slender, roundish and bulbous 
at the base; sheathes ochreate, about ne in number; a: 
ers numerous, pendulous; petals brownish, connivent, 
all inclined to the upper side of the Corolla; lip dilated, 
white, and elegantly spotted with violet-purple, palate bi- 
dentate; base of the column marginated; capsule short and. 
subglobose. : 
* Aptectrém.+ Lift unguiculate, not produced 
at the base. Anther situated below the summiut.of : 
the column. Podlinia 4, oblique, lenticular. 
+ From the fower not being calcarate or produced at the bases 
%, without, and WAWKTE OY »a spur, Sere ea 
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