504 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA 



Boot hixlhous. Stem four to six inches high, with a leaf near the middle 



and a sheath at base. 



z/" ovate, sessile, am 



Flowers numer- 



ousj very small, in a terminal raceme. Petals five, conniventj only one of 

 them deflected, the two interior filiform. Lip about the length of the petals, 

 erect, concave, broadest at the base, cucullate over the anthers, summit trun- 

 cate, eraarginate and divaricate, bidentate, producing also an intermediate 

 denticulation. Column minute, scarcely visible. Anthers two; the exterior 

 whitish, producing two masses of pollen, the interior which is acute and 



whitish only one. . Nutt. 



Grows with the preceding. Sometimes though rarely met with in the 



low country. 



May — J 



Pursh. 



CORALLORHIZA. 



H aller 



Petala aequalia, con- 



Petals equal, coniii 



niventia. 



Lahellum I vent. Labellum fre- 



pleruihque basi produc 



turn. 



Columna libera. 



quently 

 base. 



extended 



at 



Column 



free. 



Pollinia 



(nee parallela.) 



obliqua^ | Pollinia four, oblique; 



not parallel. 



1. Innata. Brown. 



€. 



labello 



trifido. 



calcare obsolete, ger- 

 mini adnato; capsula 

 obovata: folio nullo. 





— r 



Nutt. 2. p. 197. 



Labellum three-clrft, 

 with the spur obsolete, 

 attached to the germ; 

 capsule obovate; leal 

 0. 



■>. 



Cymbidium Corallorhizon; Sp. pi. 4. 109* 



Root tuberous, branching, divaricate, 5tem twelve to fourteen inches 

 high, glabrous, clothed with sheaths which at the summits are abrupt!) 

 acute, the upper frequently terminating in a subulate leaf nearly an inc 

 long. Flowers in a terminal raceme, nodding. Segments of the P^f^^" .^ 

 oblong lanceolate, connivent; of an obscure purplish brown colour; hp *' 

 dentate near the base, with the teeth inflected. Colmnn much shorter tna 

 the petals. , 



Grows in rich wooded lands. I have specimens sent me from ^^^**^" ,.^ 

 Dr. Bigelow, and some collected at St. Mary's, Georgia, in which 1 can ai - 

 Cern no difference. 



Flowers September — October. 



