83. ORCHID A CE^. 
395 
))ioad nearly equal, stigmas reflexed. — Anacharis Alsituis- 
trum (Bab.). A. N. //. ser. 2. i. t. 8. E. B. S. 2993.— St. long, 
fiFiinching ; whorls of leaves many, close together. Fl. very 
small but with i\ very long slender tube often 2 or 3 in. long, 
'i'he spath in the axil of a leaflike bract placed within the 
-Avhorl of leaves. Sep. tinged with gi'een and pink externally, 
incurved, hooded. Pet. flat, transparent, recurved, oblong. 
J-^ilanients at first curved outwards, their points placed under 
The hood of the sepals, afterwards erect, linear, blunt. Anth. 0. 
Stigmas recurved, linear, or deeply bitid. Sep. pet. and stig- 
mas of about equal length. Style adnate on 3 sides of the 
lube.— In water. Probably introduced from America. Canals 
,nd rivers. P. VIT.-IX. E. S. I. 
Order LXXXIII. ORCHIDACE.^:. 
Sep. 3, usually coloured. Pet. 3, 2 above, 1 below (lip) fre- 
Muentlylobed and spurredand unlike theothers. Stam. 3, united 
in a central column, 2 lateral abortive, or (in C upripedilum) the 
middle one a.bortive. Pollen powdery or cohering in masses. 
Ovary 1-celled, inferior, with 3 parietal placentas. Style form- 
ing part of the column with the stamens ; stigma a viscid space 
;n front of the column. Caps. 3-valved. Seeds very many, 
minute. Testa loose, netted. — Raphidiferous. 
Tribe I. OPHRYDINEjE. Anther wholly adnate to the co- 
lumn. Pollen-masses in divisible lobes which are indefinite 
in number and waxy, stalked. — Root ^vith 2 fleshy entire or 
palmate knobs helotv thejibres. 
* Anther-cells irith a prolongation of the stigma between 
j their bases. 
1. Orchis. Perianth ringent, hooded. Lip 3-lobed, spurred. 
Grlands of the stalks of the pollen-masses in a common pouch. 
2. 6ymnadeni.\. Glands of the pollen-masses without a 
pouch. Otherwise like Orchis. 
3. AcEEAS. Lip without a spur. Otherwise like Orchis. 
** A plate in front of the glands of the pollen-masses. 
4. Neotlnea. Perianth ringent, hooded. Lip 3-lobed, 
spurred. Glands of the pollen-masses in separate hollows 
behind the broad recurved rostellum, which is bounded 
laterally by 2 semicylindrical ascending processes diver- 
ging from its base. 
