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YNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Coraliorrhiza. 40 



420. CORALLORRHIZA. Coral-root. 



Hall. Hist. V. 2.1 bD. Br. in Jit. H. Kew. ed. 2. v. 5. 20D Couin 

 ecZ.4. 142. '■ 



Cal. superior, of 3 lanceolate, spreading, almost equal, per- 

 manent leaves. Pei. 2, oblong, or lanceolate, ascending, 

 nearly the length of the calyx. Nect. with more or less 

 of a sj)tir which is either prominent or not, the lip more 

 or less three-lobed, rounded at the end, rather shorter 

 than the calyx. Anih. terminal, hemispherical, decidu- 

 ous, of 2 close cells, depositing the four masses of pollen 

 upon the stigma. Ger7)z. obovate-oblong. Si_i/le shorter 

 than the petals, unconnected with them, incurved ; con- 

 vex behind ; channelled in front. Stigma obsolete, be- 

 neath the anther in front. Caps, elliptic-oblong. Seeds 

 numerous, extremely minute, roundish, each with a long, 

 lax, white, chaffy tunic. 



Root tuberous, fleshy, branched, horizontal, beset irregu- 

 larly with shortish, simple, fibrous radicles. Leaves none, 

 except a few sheathing scales, on the simple, radical 

 stalk. Chester erect, of several bracteated particoloured 

 powers. Spur obtuse, sometimes hardly discernible, al- 

 ways shorter than the germen. Capsule pendulous. Na- 

 tives of Europe, North America, and Nepaul. Six 

 species are known. 



1. C. innata. Spurless Coral-root. 



Spur of the nectary short, not distinct from the slightly 

 three-lobed lip. Root copiously branched. 



C. innata. Br. as atove. 209. Comp.ed.A.\Ab. Hook. Scot. 255. 

 Lond. t. 142. 



C.n. 1301. Hall. Hist. V. 2. \59.t. 44. 



Cymbidium corallorrhizon. Sw.Orch. 77- Willd. Sp. PI. v. 4. 109. 



Ophrys coraliorrhiza. Linn. Sp. PI. 1339. Lapl. Tour v. 1 . 222. 



/. 223. Fl. Br. 932. Engl. Bot. v. 22. 1. 1547. Light/. 523. t. 23. 



Fl.Dan.t.45l. Gunn. Norveg. p. I. 54. p.2.t.C).f.3. 

 Orobanche radice coralloide. Bauh. Pin. 88. Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 



231. /.9. Menlz.Pugin.t.9. 

 O. sveonum, radice coralloides, flore albo. Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 234. 



/.16. 

 O. spuria, seu coraliorrhiza. Rupp. Jen. ed. 1 . 284./. 

 Rhizocorallon. Hall, in Rupp. Jen. ed. 3. 30 1 . 

 Dentaria coralloide radice. Clus. Hist. v.2.\ 20. /. Pann. 450./. 

 Besl. Hort. Eyst. csstiv. ord. 4. t. 4.f. 4. 



D. minor. Ger. Em. 158.)./. 



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