ORCUIDACE^. l?>'^ 



summit of the ovary. Whole plant olive; the flowers paler; labellum 

 whitish, spotted with purplish raised spots. 



Common Coral Root. 



French, Coralline de Holler. German, Eingetuachsene Korallenvmrz. 



Tribe IV— MALAXIDE^. 



Anther terminal, free, resembhng a lid, persistent or deciduous ; 

 pollen-masses not stalked, composed of waxy cohering granules. 



GENUS XVL—-L I P A R I S. Rich. 



Pei'ianth subherbaceous ; segments spreading, all (except the la- 

 bellum) similar; labellum uppermost, as long as and much broader 

 than the other segments, flat, entire, not spurred at the base. Column 

 long, semicylindrical, inflexed. Anther terminal, lidlike, deciduous, 

 terminated by a membranous appendage; pollen-masses coheiing in 

 pairs, in one row, attached in pairs to two glands ; pollen waxy. 



Herbs growing in wet places, with the base of the stem swollen 

 and surrounded by sheaths, the new bulb formed alongside of the old 

 one, producing 2 root-leaves and a short scape bearing a raceme of 

 small greenish-yellow or purplish flowers, remarkable for having the 

 lip upwards; all the preceding genera (except Epipogum) having 

 either the ovary or the stalk of the flower twisted so as to bring the 

 labellum doAvnwards. 



The name of this genus is derived from the Greek word Xinapoc, greasy, from the 

 appearance of the leaves. 



SPECIES I— LIPARIS LOESELII. Rich. 



Plate MCCCCLXXX\^II. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. Xni. Tab. CCCCXCII. 



Billot, Fl. GaO. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 3238. 



Stnrmia Loselii, Beich. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 335. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. 



et Helv. ii. 803. Beich. fil. 1. c. p. IGl. 

 Malaxis Loselii, Siu. Sm. Eng. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 48. 

 Ophrys Loselii, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 47. 



Leaves 2, oblong-elliptical, keeled. Stem leafless, triangular. 

 Sepals lanceolate-strapshaped ; the petals narrower; labellum oblong- 

 obovate, mucronate, shorter than the sepals, yellowish-green. 



In spongy bogs. Rai'c, and now nearly extinct from the drainage 

 of the fens. Said to have been found at Ham Ponds, near Sandwich, 



