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liliifolia. 
longifolia, 
GYNANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
Bulbous-rooted Arethusa. 
About a span high. Root tuberous, scape without leaves, — 
and bearing a single large terminal rose-coloured-flower. A 
very rare plant. I have only found a single specimen, in a 
morass a mile south-east of Woodbury, Jersey. Perennial. June. 
oe 
+t} Anther terminal, movable, deciduous. Masses ~ 
of pollen at length cereaceous. 
339. MALAXIS. Swartz. R. Brown. (Orchidee.) 
Petals 5, narrower than the lip, spreading 
or deflected. Lip flattened, undivided, ses- 
sile, (mostly situated behind.) Column 
porrected. Pollinia 4, parallel, affixed to 
the summit of the stigma.— WVutt. 
1. M. leaves two, ovate-lanceolate; scape trique- 
trous ; interior petals filiform, reflexed, disco- 
loured ; lip concave, obovate, acute at the apex. 
— Willd. and Pursh. 
Ophrys trifolia, Walt. 
Ophrys scapo nudo, foliis radicalibus, &c. Gron. 
Virg. p. 138. 
Epidendrum caule erecto simplicissimo nudo, ra- 
cemo simplicifolia erecto, Gron. Virg. p. 140. 
Icon. Bot. Repos. 65. 
Lily-leaved Malaxis 
About six inches high. Flowers brownish-yellow. A singu- 
lar and not unhandsome plant. In rich shady woods at the 
roots of trees, growing on recent vegetable mould. Perennial. 
June. 
2. M. bulb subrotund; scape two-leaved; leaves 
broad-lanceolate, lunger than the scape; spike 
oblong; lip cordate, concave, canaliculate, shor- 
ter than the petals. B. 
M. correana, Bart. Prod. Ph. 


