Class XVIIL— GY NANDEIA 



I. MONANDRIA. 



t « Anther adnate, subterminal and persistent. — - 

 Pollinia (masses of pollen) affixed by the base, com- 

 posed of angular particles elastically cohering.'* R. 

 Brown ? Hort. Kew. 5. p. 183. 



606. ORCHIS, i. 



Corolla ringent, upper leaflet vaulted. Lip 

 dilated, the base beneath calcarate. Pollinia 

 (anthers, L,) 2, terminal adnate. 



Roots bituberoiis or palmate; flowers spiked. Lip of the 

 corolla mostly trifid, rarely entire. 

 Hoots pahnatecl. 



Species. 1. O. cilians. Piuk. AmaUh. p. 162. t. 432. f, 

 5. 2- blephariglottis. 3. cristate. 



4. * Integra. Lip oblong-, entire, long-er tlian the inner 

 petals; spur longer than tlie g-crm, acute at the pc/mt; stem 

 leafly, bractes shorter than the flowers. Hab. In the 

 swamps of New Jersey. Nearly allied to O. ciliaris and 

 uith flowers of the same orange -yellow colour, but some- 

 what smaller. 



5. * nivea. I/ip linear-oblonp, entire, longer than the 

 inner petals; spur filiform', equal, longer than the germ; 

 segments of the corolla spreading; spike short and oblong; 

 lower leaves linear and very long, cauline subulate. Ha&. 

 Betwixt St. Mary's and Satilla river. West Florida —Dr. 

 Baldwyn, who favoured me with a specimen under the 

 above name. Flowers clear white, rather small. Lower 

 leaves narrow, a span long, upper ones disproportionately 

 small; bractes shorter than the germ. Genitaliferous co- 

 lumn remarkably small in proportion, not halt so large as 

 the preceding-, the pollinia are consequently subsessile. 

 Spike rather dense, T or3 inches long. 



6. fuiva. Lip ovate, entire, partly crenulate; spur at- 

 tenuated, fihform and about the length of the germ; spike 

 crowded; bractes longer than the flowers. Hab. In New 



