BECANDRIA MONOGYNIA* 



477 



MONOTROPA. Gen. pl. 737. 



Calyx 0. Petals iO, 

 of which the 5 exterior 

 are excavated at base, and 

 melliferous. Capsules 5 

 valved, many seeded. 



1 



Calyx 0. Pctala 10, 

 liorum 5 exteriora basi 

 excavata,iTiel]ifeia. Cap- 

 sitla 5-valvis, poljsper- 

 ma. 



1. Uniflora. 



I 



M. scapo breviore. cras- 

 sOjimifloio; squariiisai)- 

 proxiniatis; flore ceinuo. 

 Purshj 1. p, 303. 



Sp. pi. 2, p. 578. Walt, p. 136. Mich. 1. p. 266. 



Roots parasitic, growing from the roots of trees. Scape simpl^^ 

 6 — S inches high, terete, glabfous- succulent, white, generally clus- 

 tered. Z-raues merely scales, sessile, ovate, rather obtuse, white, th© 

 upper ones longer, oval, and appearing to clothe the base of the co- 

 rolla. 



Scape short, tliick, 1 

 ilowered ; scales approx- 

 imate 3- flower cernuous. 



Flowers solitary, terminal, cornuous. Fetals 5? oblong, o- 

 hovate, gibbous at base, pubescent on the inside particularly near the 

 base, and furnished with a melliferous pore. Filaments 10, unequal, 

 shorter than the corolla, pubescent at base; from the base of the 

 sliorter filaments 2 subulate, horn-like glands are reflected into the 

 hollow at the base of the petals. Jlnthers reniform, 1 celled, furrow- 

 ed, opening at each extremity. JVectary? one leaved, ventricose, 



forming finally the ex- 

 entricosc. Style thick, 



10 toothed, furrowed, clothinji: the germ, and 

 terior coat of the capsule ? Germ superior, v 



psu 

 as long as the stamens. 



Sttgma large, concave,, glutinous. Caps;iile 

 5 angled, 5 celled. Seeds very numerous, oblong, striatcy attached t<5 

 a central receptacle. 



This plant difters so much in Its corolla and nectary from tlie char- 

 acter of the genus in the Gen. Plant, taken from the M. ITypopithys, 

 that it will probably be correct to re-establish DiUenius's srenus Hv- 



ge 



popithys, to w^hich perhaps all the many-flowered species will belong. 



As this is the only species i have seen in a living state, I leave to 



others their final distribution, ^ 



Grows in light, rich soils- 

 Flowers October — November. 



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S. MORISONIANA. 



Mich 



M. scapo elongato, rec- 



tlssimo. unifloro 



Scape 



long, 



very 



9 



s qua- 



Straight, one flowered I 



9 



