196. GYNANDRIA. MONANDRIA. 



619. MALAXIS. Swurtx>, R. Brown. 



Petals 5, narrower than the lip, spreading or 

 deflected. Lip flattened, undivided, sessile, 

 (mostly situated behind). Column poriected. 

 Follinia4, parallel, aflixed to the summit of the 

 stigma. 



Roots round and bulbous; leaves liliaceous, radical, 2 

 or more; scapes angular, naked, many-flowered. 



Species. 1. M. HUifoUa. (Scape pentagonal, leaves a 

 single pair, ovate.) Piuk. amallh. p. 162. t. 43-i. i. 9. An- 

 drews Rep. t. 65. 



2. Correana. P. W. Barton, Prodr. Flor. PhilaJ. p. 86. 

 Obs. Leaves a single pair, ovate-lanceolate, scape raai gi- 

 nally pentangular; petals revolute on the margin; lip ob- 

 long, channelled (green), somewhat shorter than tlie pe- 

 tals, apex cordately recurved. Hab. In the vicinity of 

 Philadelphia. — Professor Barton. Nearly allied to M. 

 Loeselii of Europe, with which it ought further to be com- 

 pared, but certainly appears distinct; it is much larger, 

 with the flowers smaller and more numerous, of a gn- en 

 colour with a tinge of yellow; capsule as in the preceding, 

 attenuated downwards. Some specimens occur near a spaa 

 high, and the leaves are often longer than the spike; roots 

 round and bulbous, as well as the precedmg often grow- 

 ing near the roots of trees, or in recent vegetable soil. 



* MicRosTYLis. Lip sessile and concave, erect, 

 the summit truncate, and bidentale. Column mi- 

 nute. Anthers 2; pollinia 3. 



Root bulbous; scape imifoliate, many-flowered, flow- 

 ers minute, many of them abortive; capsules subglo- 

 bose. 



3. ophioglossoides. Pluk. arnalth. t. 434'. f 4. Obs. 

 Scape about a spanhigli, i-leav-d, producinr^ a foliaceous 

 sheath towards the base; leaf (ivjde, amplexicaule. Pi^tals 

 5, connivent, only 1 of ihivn dv^fiected, the 2 interior fili- 

 form; lip about the length of ;he petals, erect, concave, 

 broadest at the base, cuculLae over tiie anthers, si;niniit 

 truncate, emarginate and divaricate, bidentate, producing 

 also an intermediate denticuluiicn. Colun;n minute, scarce- 

 ly visible. Antiitr.. 2; the exterior wliitish, producing- 2 

 masses of pollen, the interior which is acute and pointed 

 only 1. Hab. Near tt.e ro(yts of irees'in New Jersey and 

 Pennsylvania, l-'iowers green. 



