Orchis. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA., 45] 
two interior, small, obliquely oblong, erect, forming a dome 
over the anthers. Nectary, upper lip short; the under one 
three-parted, middle division long, narrow-pointed, recurv- 
ed. Horn nearly twice the length of the germ, 
3. O. commelinefolia. R. 
Lip three-parted. Segments filiform ; horn filiform, twice 
the length of the long taper-pointed germ; tubers from two 
to four, fusiform, thin, leafy ; eaves lanceolate, sheathing. » 
An erect plant, about eighteen inches high; a native of 
the northern parts of Bengal, from thence introduced into the 
Botanic garden, where it blossoms in August, which is the 
middle of the rainy season. : 
Root consisting of two, three, or four fusiform, succulent, 
pale tubers, and fleshy fibres, Stem erect, simple, including 
the floriferous part, about a feot and a half round, smooth, 
jointed, as thick as a slender quill. Leaves alternate, lanceo- 
late,shining, the largest about six inches long, by one broad, 
decreasing gradually into bractes in the spike, where they 
end, long, slender, and sharp. Sheaths cylindric, about half 
the length of the joints of the stem. Flowers many, scatter- 
ed round the last five or six inches of the plant, pretty large, 
white, and inodorous. Corol (calyx, Swartz,) exterior and 
inferior lateral two petals semi-cordate, reflexed, ribbed ; the 
upper one vaulted ; the interior two unequally oblong. Lip, 
at the base a short, linear, undivided part, the rest consisting 
of three, nearly equal, long, filiform segments, the middle one 
projecting downwards and backwards, the lateral two di- 
verging. Horn generally more than twice the length of the 
germ, filiform, with a clavate apex,green and variously curv- 
ed, Column of the fructification short, protruding two long 
acute horns forward, into their fine extreme points. The 
proper filaments are inserted, and until expansion remain — 
hid ina very fine groove along their upper edge. -Anthers 
ovate, before =— lodged between the doses folds of the 
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