AND THEIR SYSTEMATICAL ARRANGEMENT. \Oj 



anthers j and do not these constitute an upper lip 

 in that genus, or can one deny them to be the 

 anthers ? In Lepanthes, the flower of which has no 

 labellum at all, the scarcely visible membranaceous 

 integument, covering the pollen, and soon dropping, 

 cannot be considered as an upper lip, since two 

 distinct petals appear at the sides of the style. 



The upper lip therefore, as it is called, does not 

 belong to the corolla, but rather to the parts of 

 fructification, and is to be considered as the true 

 and only anther, to be met with in all the species 

 hereafter to be mentioned, Cypripedium only ex- 

 cepted, which has two of them ; all the other genera 

 hitherto known are monandrous. Adanson was 

 the first who formed this opinion, afterwards 

 adopted by Jussieu, Schreber and Salisbury. 



Besides the above-mentioned, many other names 

 have been given to this anther ; such as fungus, 

 glans, cucullus, squama, operculum, and ether 

 vague appellations. 



This part is found to differ very much in the 

 different Orchidece, with regard to form as well as 

 insertion, In Orchis and Ophrys, for instance, it is. 



