Pl.end.ph. 21. ORCHIDEiE. 150. Cypripedeum. 213 



anthers 2, joined nearly opposite, fixed immediately on 

 their support, roundish ; pollen pulpy-granular. — Rhizoma 

 creeping; fibres fleshy; stem leafy; leaves amplexicaul, 

 many-ribbed ; flower single, drooping. 



Cypriped'mmferrugineum. Brown ladies-slipper. 



Stem leafy ; sepales flat ; staminodium elliptic, obtuse,^ 

 channelled. 



Calceolus Maria?, Raii Syn. 3S5, 1 ; Ger. em. 443, 1. 

 Elleborine major seu Calceolus Mariae, Park. 217. 

 Elleborine ferru2;inea, Dalech. Hist. M46. 

 Cypiipediuin Calceolus, Lin. S. P. 1346. 



Mountainous woods ; perennial ; June. 



Stem 12 in. high, 1 rarely 2-flowered, leafy; sepales brown- 

 ish purple ; lip shorter than the sepales, compressed, yellow, 

 veined ; staminodium yellow dotted with red. 



D. Perigonium not galeate; lip spurless; retinacle 0; 

 5€/j^m/g persistent; oyar?/ pedicelled ; bursicle 0. 



XVII. 151. PSEUDORCHIS. Dwarf-orchis. 



Ovary pedicelled, generally imperfect and abortive ; peri- 

 gonium loosely spread ; lip behind, sessile at the base of the 

 gynosteraium, reverse-oval, channelled, above bent back, 

 undivided; gynostemium oblong, rather bent, much thicker 

 below, with winged edges on the side of the gynizuS at the 

 upper part; gyniziis rather square, sunk in ; edge promi- 

 nent; rostelhimO; anther marginal, placed above, short- 

 hearti^hape; cells roundish, very simple within; pollen m 

 globular nearly equal masses. — Herb light green; hulh 

 ovate, scaly; base rooting; leaves 2 or S, radical, petiolate, 

 nerved; scape angular; racemus loose, few-lowered; flowers 

 yellowish ; bractecB short. 



Pseudorchis Loeselii. Loesel's du'orf-orchis. 



Leaves 2, ovate, lanceolate, opposite ; sepales linear ; Up 

 ovate, bent back at the tip ; bracteos shorter than the pedi- 

 cells. 



Pseudo-orchis bifolia paliistris, Raii Syn, 382, I. 



Orchis bifolia bulbosa, Ger. em. 403. 



Ghamaeorchis latifolia Zelandiie, Park. 1354. 



Ophrys Loeselii, Lin. S. P. 1341. 



Ophrvs lilifolia, Huds. Fl. AngJ. 389. 



Ophrys paludosa, Fl. Ban. 877. 



Ophrjs pulciiella, Salisb. Prod. 8. 



Cymbidium Loeselii, Simrtc. 



Malaxis Loeselii*, Sioariz. 165. 



Liparis Loeselii, Richard Mem. Mus, 4, 60. 



Bulbous twayblade. 



