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MALAXIS LONGIFOLIA. 



LONG-LEAVED MALAXIS. 



Gynandria Monogynia, Linn. Orchidex, Juss. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Petals 5, narrower than the lip, spreading or deflected. Up flattened, undivided, 



sile, (mostly situated behind.) Column porrected. Pollhua 4, parallel, affixed 

 to the summit of the stigma. Nutt. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Bulb subrotund ; scape 2-leaved ; leaves broad-lanceolate, longer than the scape; 

 spike oblong; lip cordate, concave, canaliculate, shorter than the petals. B. 



A yellowish-green plant, from three to seven inches high. Root 

 perennial, a roundish bulb sending off a few fascicled radicles, and a 

 large off-set, the germ of a new plant. Leaves a pair, broad-lanceolate, 

 tapering at base and apex ; they are often elliptical-lanceolate, long' 

 and obscurely furrowed. Scape four-sided, and naked the greatest part 



