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substance, or consolidated into waxy masses, the latter free or 

 adherent to a gland, belonging to the beak of the stigma: 

 ovary inferior, 1 -celled, consisting of 6 carpels, of which three 

 opposite the petals bear many seeded didymous parietal 

 placentse without stigmas, and three opposite the sepals are 

 produced in as many stigmas but without placentae : style not 

 distinct except in Cypripedium and certain Neottiese : stigmas 

 usually confluent in a hollow mucous disc : the dorsal stigma 

 having on the upper edge one or two glands^ often extended 

 into a beak, or hollowed out into pouches or prolonged into 

 two parallel diverging arms, the lateral stigmas usually 

 obsolete : capsule seldom indehiscent, fleshy, pod-shaped, very 

 often breaking up into six dry woody stiff valves, of which 

 three only bear seeds : seeds very numerous, minute, enwrapped 

 in a loose netty skin, sometimes compressed into a circular 

 wing; embryo exalbuminous, solid, fleshy: chalaza at the 

 apex, radicle next the hUum. 



GENTTS I. MICROSTYLIS. 

 Cynandpia Monandr^a, Sex: Systr 



Deriv. Erom Micros, small, and Style, a column. 



Ges-. Chae. Sepals spreading, free, lateral ones equal at the 

 baise, usually shorter: petals spreading, linear or filiform : Up much 

 spreading, forming a right angle with the column, hollow at the 

 base, sagittate or auricled, quite entire or toothed, tubercles none i 

 column small, seldom a little elongated, furnished with teeth or 

 two ears at the apex : anther 2-ceUed : poUen masses 4, collateral, 

 — Terrestrial or epiphytous herbs : leaves plicate or membranaceous, 

 seldom thickened at the base : flowers herbaceous, yellowish or of 

 two colours. 



(1) M. TEESICGLOK. (lAnAl.) 



Ident. Lindl. gen. and sp. p. 21. 



Migrcm. "Wight's Icon. t. 901. 



Spec. Chae. Stem leafy : leaves cordate or ovate oblong, 

 abruptly petioled, undulated, plaited : lip transverse, dentated on 

 the margin, cucullate, slightly overlapping at the base: column 

 bicomate at the apex : sepals and petals secund. 



Neilghemes and other elevated stations in grassy pastures. 



