ORCHIS. 171 
TRIBE VI.—OPHRYDEX. 
Anther-cells sessile on the column, anticous or (in the Indian species of Satyrium) 
lateral, free or contiguous, but паја distinct, parallel or diverging, often with tubes 
from their bases, each with a staminode on its outer surface ; жй two, rarely four, 
usually with caudicles and always with glands; glinds naked or enclosed in the same 
pouch or in two distinct pouches. Siigmas two, distinct or united below the anther-cells 7 
pollen granular or sectile, not waxy. 
Lip inferior; spur single, rarely none. 
Rostellum not prominent (except in Herminium gramineum). 
Lip with usually а long spur (very short in а few species of Hahenrria). 
Flowers purple, pink or سس‎ white; polliniar glands often 
enclosed in a pouch . . as ç ы es 40. Orchis. 
Flowers green or yellowish-green, 9 white едан ان‎ 
with long tubes, polliniar glands neked . . . 4l. Habenaria 
Lip with no spur or with a very short one; flowers green, windy ЖЫЙ. 
anther-cells with long tubes, pli glands naked, (Usually 
diminutive plants) . . 49, Herminium. 
Rostellum very prowinent (see ites Bas minium ИИ ; leaf soft, 
radical, broad; flowers purple or white, lip spurred . . . . . . 43. Hemipilia, 
LM رو اہ‎ SOUS LWO . . vo. e e. ,. ا‎ А 
40. Orchis Linn, 
Terrestrial erect leafy herbs with oblong or digitately lobed tubers, or with fleshy 
fibrous roots. Laws sheathing, not plicate. Flowers medium-sized, usually pink or 
purple, in spikes or racemes; floral bract small, or leaf-like and exceeding the flower. 
Sepals subequal, the dorsal one conniving to form a hood with the petals, the lateral pair 
spreading. Petals like the sepals or smaller. Lip adnate to the base of the column, 
spreading or pendulous, entire or 3-lobed, rarely 4-or 5-lobed, always spurred. Colum~ 
very short. Antier-clls two, anticous, parallel, contiguous, without tubes; pollinia 
usually attached to caudicles ; glands two, distinct or united, lying in a common pouch 
or naked. Siaminodcs rugulose, attached to the outer surfaces of the anther-cells or to 
the column by their sides. Atigmas united into a transverse band lying across {һе 
column for its whole breadth, or distinct and at the margins of the column (as in 
0. habenarioides).—Species about 80, in Europe, aud in the temperate parts of Asia and 
N. Africa; also in N. America and in the Mascerene Islands. 
Stem stout, leaves three or more, lip entire or obscurely 3-lobed. 
Flowers large, purple lilac or occasionally white, polliniar glands enclosed 
in а pouch. , 1. 0, latifolia. 
Flowers much edit, e or یت‎ Vide. еске өші» free | 
and exposed . . SAL ç 2. 0. hahenarioides . 
Stem slender, leaves one to TR i ‘distinctly 3- (б лы < ا ےم‎ H О. Chusun. 
Stem slender, leaf usually solitary and near the base of the stem. 
Stigmas united, р 3-lobed, spur longer than the ovary . . . . , 
Stigmas distinct, lip entire, spur shorter than the ovary . . . . . . 
О. Stracheyi. 
О. spathulata, 
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Ann. Вох. Bor. Garp., Carc, Vor. IX. 
