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SERAPIAS Linewa. 
Tongue-lipped _ Serapias: 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.—Nart. Ono. ORCHIDE. 
Gen. Cuar.—Corolla ringens. Labellum ecalcaratum. Columna cuspidata. 
Pedicelli pollinis inserti glandula unica cucullo inclusa—Br. in Hort. Kew. 
Serapis Lingua ; -labello tripartito,-lacinis~iateralibus obtusis erectis 
conniventibus, media oblonga lanceolata. acutiuscula glabriuscula 
S. Lingua, Linn. Sp. Pl. p..1344—Wiup- Sp. Pl. voivs p.. 70—Arr. Hort. 
Kewed. 2; v. 5. po 195. 
The root of this plant consists-of one large, nearly spherical, plump and 
fleshy tuber, with a smaller shrivelled one-by its side, and-above these a 
few rather thick, carnose, simple bres. Stem 8 inches to 1} foot high, 
flexuose, leafy. Leaves lanceolate, the middle ones long and narrow, 
smooth, pale green, obscurely nerved ; the uppermost passing gradually 
into bracteas. : : 
Spike composed of from 2 to 5, or even 8 inclined flowers, each subtended 
Perianth of 5 narrow, lanceolate and 
leaflets, the 2 innermost being very narrow, and scarcely Separable from 
the upper one; their colour is a pale yellow-green, with: purplish red 
lowish-white, pubescent at the base, the margin reddish. — 
Sructification rather lengthened, yellowish-green, running out into a long 
attenuated point beyond the Anther. Germen somewhat clavate, Hie 
twisted. Stigma broadly ovate, viscid, in the front of the column. Anther 
fine yellow, obovate, 2-celled, with one little point at the base, in which 
is inserted the single gland, bearing the 2 yellow pollen-masses (Fig. 5.) 
The two species of Serapias, S. Lingua and JS. cordigera, 
have a very close affinity with each other, and are scarcely to 
be distinguished but by the larger size of the latter, and the 
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