; b S JIG IX T \; S J A M A I e K N .'J 1' S. . . j>oowK 



'J'his. plant is uncommon and grows to the height of eighteen or twen.'cy inches, with 

 a simple uprigjst stem, ami oblong leaves. Bro ne. found it in l-igit4nea, and calls .it 

 the safi/riuiii nith one-eareil leaves and long spurs. 



2. HABENARIA. . EEtNED. 



Ijiilb sohtary, undivided ; lip of tlie nectary three-parted, lateral ones bristle- 

 shaped; horn liliionn, raucli longer than the germ. 



Rnib single, mid;iie' sized, ohloj;g, tonieatose, with *long, filiform, simple, fibres 

 aijove the bui'i. Stem erect, Icafv, from one to two feet high, simple, angular, 

 smooth. Leaves sessil'', alternate, sheatliing at the -hs:;e, ovate-lanreolatf, acute, 

 smooth and shiuicig, tliree- nerved, netted-vemed ; shsaths closely surrounding the 

 stem and sinootii. flowers in spikes, alternate, scattered, at a ht^le distance, white; 

 among the flowers the seem is acirte-angled. Spathes (hractes) under the flowers wide, 

 keeicu, turt-e- nerved, smooth, green. CoroUas"five-petaled ; three petals exterior-; 

 the upper or middle one, which is tiie'helmer, arched, erect, three-keeled, greenish 

 m!ih;', sp.iooth ; two lateral somewhat turned Ijack, ovate-lanceolate, keeled, careen; 

 two iirterior lateral, cloven at the b&se ; the upper segments inclosed within the arched 

 pvTL.J, of the same length ; the lower segraems tliifonn, nmch longer than the upper 

 ones, spreading, white. Nectary behind, imder the helmet, arched ; triangular in 

 , tiie middle, divided into cells at tl^ sides, and in front divided into two long horns, 

 between which a fmmel-form passage opens into the horn of the germ. Filaments ca- 

 pillary, from the lateral ceils of the nectarycommunieattng by canals with the tips of 

 tiie horns, and there glued to them ; anthers in tlie cells iilled with yellow globular 

 pollen ; germ iaferior, elongated, three-sided, gibbous, hexangular ; no style ; 

 stig.na stretched out between the horns, behind the opening, convex, shining, mois- 

 tened. Lip of the nectaiy three-parted, imerted before the stigma and the horn of 

 the germ; the middle segment lanceolate, acute, plano-convex; the lateral ones fili- 

 form, three times the length of the other, bent down ; horn four or five times as lofig 

 as tlie germ, .roundish, compressed a little at the base, lanceolate at the end, and an- 

 cipital, glued to the stem after flowering. Capsule large, three-winged, six-grooved, 

 opening m tue middle into six parts, cohering at the top ; seeds bristly. The flowers' 

 are very singular, and, together with orchis rnonorrhiza, might perhaps constitute ,a 

 separate genus. It is a native of Jamaica, in low meadows at the^'oot of the mouii- 

 tsius. Sw. 



DOGWOOD TREE. PISCIDL\. 



Cl. 17, OR. 4. Diadelphia decandria. Nat. -or. PapiUonacccs. 



This generic name is derived from the Latin word for fishes, the twigs of the tre-e 

 irjoxicating them when bruised and thrown into the water. 



Gen. char. Calyx a cne-leafed, bell-shaped, peiianth, five-toothed, the upper 

 teeth nearer; corolla papilionaceous ; banner ascending, emarginate ; wings the 

 length of the banner; keel crescent-shaped, ascending ; the stamens are ten fila- 

 ments, uniting in a sheath cloven above ; anthers oblong, incumbent ; the pistil 

 has a pedicelled, compressed, linear germ ; style filiform, ascending ; stigma 

 iaotitqj the pericarp is a pedicelled legume, Unear, with four Jongitudmal mem- 



hranaceot^s 



