456 GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA, Malaxis. 
The lip and apex of the column of the fructification, are 
both very remarkable in this pretty plant, which is from six 
to twelve inches high. The latter may be compared to the 
bill of a sparrow, which opens when the plant is in vigorous 
blossom, exposing the two pedicelled polliniferous masses, 
hanging in a recurved direction from the apex of the upper 
part of the bell. The lower part, or close of the lip, linear 
and partly attached to the fore part of the column ; the lami- 
na linear also, but transverse, like the letter T. It has the 
beaked anther of Swartz’s Weottia, and may belong to that 
genus. 
5. E, graminifolia, R. 
Leaves radical, linear-lanceolar, ribbed. Seape few-flow- 
ered, Lip three-lobed, with a double crest in the middle. 
A small species, from about eight to nine inches in height; 
a native of Silhet, where it flowers during the rains. The 
flowers are pretty large and yellow. 
MALAXIS. Swartz. 
Corol five-petalled. Lip concave, patula ascending. 4n- 
thers operculate, 
1. M. plicata. R. 
Parasitic. Leaves in radical tufts, broad lanceolate, 
plaited. Spikes central, erect, naked. Flowers numerous. 
It has the erect habit of Katou-ponnam-maravara. " Rheed. 
H. Mal. xii. t. 28, which is quoted by Willdenow for his 
Malaxis odorata. 
A native of Sumatra, from thence brought by Mr. Rox- 
burgh to the Botanic garden in 1804, where it blossoms in 
July. 
ing petioles, formed into a short stalk; broad lanceolate, 
somewhat obliquely recurved, plaited, smooth; margins a 
Leaves trom ‘ans to deci in a tuft, with their short sheath- 
