196. GTNANDRIA. MOXANDRIA, 



619. MALAXIS. Swartz, R. Brown. 



Petals 5, narrower than the lip, spreading or 

 deflected. Lip flattened, undivided, sessile, 

 (mostly situated beliind). Column porrected. 

 Pollinia 4, paiallcl, aflixed to the sinnniit of the 

 iStignia. 



Roots round and bulbous; leaves liliaceous, radical, 2 

 or njore; scapes angular, naked, many-fiowered. 



Spec lEs. 1. M. lii.rfuKa. (bcape pentaj^onal, leaves a 

 s'mgie pair, ovate.) hiuk amalih. p. 162. t. 43-i. 1. 9. An- 

 drews Rep. t. 65. 



2 Correana. P. W. Barton, Prodr. Flor. Philad. p. 86 

 Obs. Leaves a sinj^le paii", ovate-lanceolate, scape margU 

 nally pentangular; petals revolule on the margin; lip ob- 

 long, channelled (green), somewhat shorter than the pe- 

 tals, apex cotdattly recurved. Hab. In the vicinity of 

 PliiL.lelphla.— Professor Barton. Nenrly allied to M. 

 Loesclii of Europe, with which it ought furtlier to be com- 

 |-ared, but certainly appears disiinct; it is much larger, 

 with tlie flowers suialler and more numerous, of a green 

 colour with a tinge of yellow; capsvde as in the preceding, 

 attenuated downwards. 6on'c specimens occur near a trpati 

 high, and the leaves are often longer than the spike; roots 

 round and bulbous, as well as the preceding often grow- 

 ing near the roots of trees, or in recent vegetable soil. 



* MicRosTYLis. Li/i sessile and concave, erect, 

 the summit truncate, and bidentatc. Column mi- 

 nute. Anthers 2; pollinia 3. 



Root bulbous; scape unifoliate, many-flow'ered, flow- 

 ers minute, many of tliem abortive; capsules subglo- 

 };ose. 



3. phi ogJ OS ^ aides. Pluk. amalth. t, 434. f 4. Ob.s. 

 Scape about a span high, l-lcav(.d, producir.g a foliaceuus 

 sheath towai'ds the base; leaf tivate, amplexicaule. Petals 

 5, conniveiu, only 1 of th.m deflected, the 2 interior fili- 

 i'orm; lip about tiie length of the petals, erect, concave, 

 broadest at the base, cucu'late over the anthers, summit 

 truncate, emarginaie and divaricate, bidentate, producing 

 also an intermcdiaiedt-nticaiatlon. Column minute, scarce- 

 ly visible. AntlKr> 2; tlK- exterior whitish, producing 2 

 masses of pollen, the interior winch is acute and pointed 

 enly 1. Hab. Near tne roots of u-ees in New Jeisey and 

 Pennsylvania. Flowers green. 



