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490 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA 



setaceous 



inferiore setaceo, peta- 1 segment 



lis exterioribus vix Ion- scarcely longer than 



giore; cornu germinis | the 

 rongitudine; foliis an 



exterior 



petals; 



horn as long as 



the 



gusto-lanceolatis; brae 



teis acutis. 



germ; leaves narrow 



lanceolate 



acute. 



9 



bracteas 



Nutt. 2. p. 190. 



Root tuberous, creeping. 



Stem erect, twelve to eighteen inches high, 



L;;;;; n"orcrowded as in the preceding species, narrow 1««^^^^^^^^^^ 



Bracteas ovate lanceolate, very acute, as long as the now 



tinctly nerved. . , i i 



er; three exterior segments of the perianth lanceolate, u.^ -p^.- TuVn^rtpH 

 two lateral expanding, of the interior segments, the two lateral biparted, 

 the upper segment of each small, connivent, covered by the vaulted segment 

 of the outer series, the lower setaceous; the labellum three-parted, the middle 

 segment a little broader and shorter than the others. The P«"f "^"?^''^' ^'^ 

 naked and distinct, at first enclosed in a hollow sack. Capsule triquetrous, 



furrowed, one celled, three-valved. , , t 



Grows in damp soils, common in the low grounds around bavannan, 



Flowers July — October. 



and 



ft Anther a persiH 



ft Anther persistent, 



ens, stigmati parallela. parallel with the stig 



Pollinia stigmatis sum 



ma 



Pollinia fixed to 



mitati affixa, particulis \ the summit of the sti 



ma, composed of Jc" 



farinaceis sive angula 

 tis* 



naceous 

 ^particles 



or 



IguldT^ 



GOODYERA. Brown. 



LB 



Corolla 



pe 



Corolla ringent, the 



two lower petals placed 

 underneath the gibbous 



and undivided lip. ^^' 



Columna libera. 1 iumn free. Pollen ^^' 



gular. 



talis duobus inferiori 

 bus subtus labello gib 

 bo apice indiviso, posi 



lis. 



Pollen angulatum 



