NATURAL ORDER OF ORCHIDEjE. I49 



Genit. Stylus e Germine infero, oblongo, torto 

 brevissimus, erectus. 

 Anthera stylo apice adnata, erecta, magna, 

 gibba, bilocularis : loculis antice hiantibus. 

 Massa Pollinis clavatce ut in Orchide, pe- 

 dicellis basi glandulosis ad sinus inferiores 

 loculorum insertis. 

 Stigma infra Antheram, anticum, convexum, 

 latum. , 

 Per. pracedentium. 



N. B. This genus distinguishes itself by the 

 absence of the spur at the labellum, from 

 Orchis, which it resembles however in 

 regard to the other parts of the flower. 

 Species, 

 Ophrys Monorchis L. O. lancea Th. 



alpina L. crucigera Jacq.* 



anthropophora L. Myodes L. 

 fuciflora. 



O. lancea: scapo nudo; labeilo sublineari deflexo 

 trifido, lacinia media obsoleta. e Java. Thun- 

 berg. 



* See the note, page 127. 



