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(1888) p. 348 ; Pfitzer in Engler et Prant!, Nat. Pfl.-Fatn. II. 6, p. 129, 

 fig. 128, H, J, K. 



Ophrys paludosa Linn. Sp. PI. p. 947 ; Richter, Codex, n. 6849 ; Houtt. 

 Nat. Hist. XXX. (1780) p. 516. 



Orchis paludosa Pall. * Roise III. p. 320.' 



Epipactis paludosa F. W. Schmidt, 'in Mey. Phys. Aufsatz, (1791) p. 245.' 



Hammarhya paludosa 0. Kiintze, Rev. Gen. P). II. p. 665. 



A little orchid, about 15 cm. or more in height. Pseudbulb ovoid 

 or ellipsoid, green, about 5-6 mm. long, clothed with old soft pale sheaths 

 at base, the younger one encircling vvitli the basal sheath of leaves, a new 

 plant forming at the side of the old. Leaves few, elliptical-obovate to 

 oblong, obtuse, shortly attenuated below, green, with 3 main nerves, the 

 superior ones vaginate at the base, the uppermost one larger and about 

 1§ cm. long including the petiole, 1 cm. broad. Scape terminal on the 

 pseudbulb, embracing by the vagina of the uppermost leaf, erect, slender, 

 sharply 6-angular, green, glabrous. Raceme erect, slender, spiciform, about 

 8-9 cm. long, rather laxly many-flowered ; rachis straight, sharply angulate, 

 green ; bract minnte, equal to or a little longer than the pedicel, erect, or 

 erect-patent, ovato-subulate, acuminate, entire, 1-nerved, concave, green, 

 2-3 mm. long. Flower minute, pedicellate, resupinate, yellowish-green, 

 about 4mm. in diameter vertically; pedicel erect, twisted, shorter than the 

 flower, but slightly longer than the ovary. Sepals very patent, subequal, 

 free, subherbaceous, entire, 1-nerved ; the posterior ones erect, ovate, obtuse, 

 somewhat oblique in form, 2 mm. long ; the anterior one turned downwards, 

 oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 2 mm. long. Petals subherbaceous, nmch smaller 

 and shorter than sepals, 1-nerved, linear-oblong, long-acuminate with an 

 obtuse or acutish point, entire, abruptly much recurved above, 1^ mm. long. 

 Labellum turned upwards, shorter than sepals, sessile, broadly deltoid-ovate, 

 often very obscurely trilobed below, obtuse or acutish, subcordate and em- 

 bracing the gynostemium at the base, concave, etuberculate, ecalcarate, 

 subherbaceous, green, 3-nerved, li mm. long. Gynostemium very short, 

 thickish, terete, straight, the clinandrium hollowed and bidentate at the 

 apical edge ; anther ovato-deltoid, acutish, situated behind the stigma (which 

 is placed under the rostellum) and sessile at the apex of the hollow of the 

 clinandrium, suberect, persistent, distinctly 2-locular, dehiscing upwards, the 

 loculament ovato-oblong ; rostellum refuse or bifid, erect or suberect. Pol- 

 linia 4, incumbent, clavato-oblong, compressed, sessile, waxy, yellow, in 2 

 pairs, both pairs suspended from a minnte gland which terminates the 

 anther. Ovary ellipsoid, about 1 mm. long, viridescent. Capsule ellipsoid- 



