CLASS XX. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
ORCHIS. Schreb. gen. N. —— 
Nectary horn-shaped behind the flower. 
1. O. platyphyllos, Willd, iv, 11. 
Bulbs undivided ; lip of the nectary roundish, three-part- 
ed ; middle divisions lanceolate, horn twice the length of the 
germ, Leaves oval, spreading close on the surface of the 
‘earth. Racemes erect. 
2. O. plantaginea, Corom, pl. 1. N. 37. 
A native of moist vallies among the Circar hills. Flower- 
ing in the rainy season, 
Root a bulb, perennial, generally single, undivided, ovate, 
of the size of a pigeon’s egg, with a few fungous, villous 
fibres issuing from the base of the scape near its insertion in 
: _ the top of the bulb. Leaves froni four to eight, radical, 
pressing on the earth, broad, oval, smooth, of a deep shining 
green, fleshy, slightly marked with many nerves, about four 
inches long, and three broad, Scape erect, about a foot, or 
a foot and a half high, including the flower-bearing part, aS 
thick as a goose-quill, round, smooth; at every inch and a 
half or two inches, there is a lanceolate, foliaceous sheath. 
Spike from four to six inches long, every where surrounded 
with flowers, Flowers numerous, single-bracted, white, fra- 
grant, Bractes single, one-flowered, lanceolate, nerved, 4 
long as the germ, Corol, three exterior petals saarly es 
