504 GYNANDIUA MONANDR1A 



1. T. pewduli, Jfatt. Root tuberous; stem leafy, about 3-flowcred 

 near the summit; leaves ovate, amplcxicaul; (lowers axillary, pedun- 

 culate; fruit pendulous or nodding. Beck, Bot. p. 346. 

 Arethusa parviilora. Mx. Jim. 2. /;. 160. 



A. pcndula. Willd. Sp. 4. p. 82. MuhU Catal. p. 81. PnrtA, Am. 



2. />. 590. 



A. trianthophoros. Pers. Syn. 2. />. 512. 

 Pogonia pcndula. Lindl. Ency. p. 756. 



Pendulous Trifhoiia. 



Root perennial, bearing cylindric-oblong succulent tubers often an Inch hi 

 length Stem 3 to 6 or 8 inches high, simple (frequently growing in clusters), le . 

 rate or slightly angled by the decurrent leaves, fleshy, smooth, often striatcly 

 pubescent at base, generally purplish. Leaves few (3 to 5 or 7), alternate, 1 third 

 io 2 thirds of an inch Ion?, and 1 fourth to half an inch wide, ovate and rather 

 acute Bomctimcs obtuse and orbicular-ovate, sessile, rather erect and concave, or 

 sheathingly amplcxicaul, smooth, dingy purplish-grcen,-the upper ones smaller 

 and bract like. Flowers few (i to 3 or 4), generally pale violet-purple with tinges 

 of green (sometimes milk-white), solitary, terminal and axillary, on peduncle* I 

 third to half an inch long, rather erect when in bloom, pendulous or nodding before 

 and after. Segments of thq perianth lanceolate, nearly equal, connivent. Lip 

 scarcely as long as the perianth-segments, spatulate, somewhat 3-lobcd, ungmcu- 

 latc, a little rough but not crested. Column free, spatulate, erect; anther violsu 

 purple. Capsule elliptic, or obovoid-oblong, acuminate, -smooth. 

 ffab. Rich, rocky woodlands: frequent. Fl. August-Sept. Fr. October. 



Obe. The only known species in the U. States. 



403. CALOPOGON. Br. JYutt. Gen.7U. 

 •Greek, Kalos, handsome, and Pogon, beard ; alluding to the beard of the flower.] 



Floraers resupinate : Perianth with the segments distinct, spreading. 

 Up on the upper side of the flower, erect, unguiculatc, bearded in front. 

 Column free, declined, incurved, winged at summit. Pollen angular. 

 1 C puLCHELLus, Br. Leaf mostly solitary, sub-radical, ensiform, 

 nerved ; scape few-flowered. Beck, Bot. p. 345. Icox, Bart. Jim. 2. 



tab. 68. 



Limodorum tuberosum. Mx. Am. 2. p. 159. 



Cymbidium puichellum. Willd. Sp. 4. p. 105. Pern. Syn. 2. p. 516. 



Muhl. Catal. p. 81. Punk, Jim. 2. p. 592. Bigel. Boet. p. 326. 



Eat. Man. p. 116. 



Beautiful Calopogox. 



Root perennial, fibrous, and tuberous, the bane of the scape mostly enlarged inu 

 a subglobose tuber. Scape 12 to 18 inches high, rather slender, smooth, mostlr 

 with a solitary leaf near the base, and a couple of cyltndric striate sheaths below 

 the leaf; /eo/6 to 9 inches long, and half an inch to an inch wide, erect and some- 

 what rigid, ensiform, or lanceolate, acute, striate-nerved, smooth, narrowed and 

 sheathing at base. Flowers bright reddish purple, rather large, fragrant, few and 

 distant (4 to 8 or 10), in a terminal bracteate spike, the rachis flexuose ; bracU 

 ovate-lanceolate, with a slender acumination, shorter than the ovary. Segments 

 of the perianth lanceolate, spreading; lip and column apparently resupinate, or 

 iheir usual relative position tnverted,-the lip being on the upper side, erect, mac* 

 dilated at svmnit, narrowed below, conspicuously bearded In freni with waltis. 



