CLASS XX. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDIUA. 



ORCHIS. Schreb. gen. N. 



Nectary horn-shaped behind the flower. 



1.0./; latyphy llos. Wi lid. i v . 1 1 . 



Bulbs undivided; lip of the nectary roundish, three-part- 

 ed ; middle divisions lanceolate, horn twice the length of the 

 germ. Leaves oval, spreading- close on the surface of the 

 earth. Racemes erect. 



2. O.pluntuyinea, Corom. pi. 1. iV. 37. 



A native of moist vallies among the Circar hill-. Flower- 

 ing in the rainy season. 



Root a bulb, perennial, generally single, undivided, ovate, 

 of the size of a pigeon's e^^, with a few fungous, villous 

 fibres issuing from the base of the scape near its insertion in 

 the top of the bulb. Leaves from four to eight, radical, 

 pressing* on the earth, broad, oval, smooth, of a deep shining- 

 green, Heshy, slightly marked with many nerves, about four 

 inches long, and three broad. Scape erect, about a foot, or 

 a foot and a half high, including the flower-bearing part, as 

 thick as a goose-quill, round, smooth; at every inch and a 

 half or two inches, there is a lanceolate, foliaceous sheath. 

 Spike from four to six inches long, every where surrounded 

 with flowers. Flowers numerous, single- bracted, white, fra- 

 grant. Bracles single, one-flowered, lanceolate, nerved, as 

 long as the germ. Carol, three exterior petals nearly equal ; 



