(394.) 
MALA/XIS*. 
Linnean Class and Order. Gyna'ndria+, Mona'ndhia. 
Natural Order. Orchi'de.e, Linn. — Juss. Gen. PI. p. 64. — 
Sm. Gram, of Bot. p. 81. ; Engl. FI. v.iv. p. 3. — Lindl. Syn. p. 256 ; 
Introd. to Nat. Syst. of Bot. p.262. — Rich, by Macgilliv. p. 412. — 
Loud. Hort. Brit, p.536. — Mack. FI. Hibern. p. 274. — Macr. Man. 
Brit. Bot. p. 224. — Hook. Brit. FI. (4th ed.) p. 425. — Palmares ; 
order, Musales ; sect. Orchidinah; type, Orchidaceaj; Burn. 
Outl. of Bot. v. i. pp. 391, 437, 453, & 461. 
Gen. Char. Perianlhium ( calyx and corolla) (figs. 1 & 2.) 
superior ; sepals (fig. 1 , c,c,c.) 3, herbaceous, egg-shaped, spreading, 
permanent. Petals (fig. I, d, d.) 2, herbaceous, reflexed, smaller 
than the sepals. Lip ( nectary) (fig. 1, e.) uppermost, undivided, 
without a spur, much smaller than the sepals, and similar in size 
and shape to the petals. Anther (see fig. 3, c.) terminal, deciduous, 
of two close cells, depositing the four waxy pollen-masses upon the 
stigma. German (fig. 3, a.) inversely egg-shaped, angular. Style 
( column) (see fig. 4.) very short, convex at the back, flat or con- 
cave in front. Stigma close beneath the anther in front, obsolete. 
Capsule elliptic-oblong, with 3 orb’ ribs. Seeds numerous, minute, 
each with a lax chaffy tunic. 
The spreading sepals ; the reflexed petals , smaller than the 
sepals ; the spurless, entire, reversed lip ; the very short column ; 
and the two pairs of waxy pollen-masses ; will distinguish this from 
other genera in the same class and order. 
One species British. 
MALA'XIS PALUDO'SA. Marsh Malaxis. Marsh Bog-orchis. 
Marsh Twayblade. Marsh Ophrys. 
Spec. Char. Stalk with 5 angles. Leaves about 4, oval, very 
concave, papillose at the tip. Lip entire, concave, acute, half the 
length of the sepals. 
Swartz in Stockh. Trans, for 1789, p. 127. t. C. f. 2. Engl. Bot. t. 72. — Hook. 
FI. Loml. t. 197. — Willd. Sp. PI. v. iv. pt. I. p. 91. — Sm. FI. Brit. v. iii. p. 910. ; 
Engl. FI. v. iv. p. 47. — With. (7th ed.) v. ii. p. 41. — Gray’s Nat. Arr. v. ii. p. 214. — 
Lind. Syn. p. 263. — Hook. Br. FI. p. 379. — Macr. Man. Brit. Bot. p. 229. — Brown in 
Ait. Hort. Kew. (2nd ed.) vol. v. p. 208. — Kelli. FI. Cant. (3rd. ed.) p. 366. — Hook. 
FI. Scot. p. 255. — Itev. G. E. Smith’s PI. of S. Kent, p. 59. — Winch’s FI. of North. 
& Durli. p. 57.— Irv. Loml. FI. p. 113.— Mack. Cat. PI. of Irel. p.77. ; FI. Hib. p.281. 
— O'phryspalnddsa, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1311. — FI. Dan. t. 1234. — Rose’s Elem. App. 
p. 450. t. 2. f. 3. — Iluds. FI. Angl. (2nded.) p. 389. — With. (2nded.) v ii. p. 989. — 
Lightf. FI. Scot. v. i. p. 525. — Abb. FI. Bcdf. p. 196. — O.paliistris, Huds. FI. Angl. 
(lsted. ) p. 339. — Ophris bifolia palustris nostras, Pluk. Phyt. t. 247. f. 2.; 
O. bifolia minor palustris, Pluk. Almag. 270. — Orchis minima bulbosa, D. 
Preston. Ray’s Hist. v. iii. p.587.; Dill, in Ray’s Syn. p. 378. — B folium pa- 
lustre, Park. Tlieatr. Bot. p. 505. — Ray’s Syn. 2nd ed. p. 243. ; 3rd ed. p. 385. 
Fig. 1. Front view of a Flower ; a. bractea ; b. gerinen ; c. C. c. sepals ; b. b. pe- 
tals ; e. lip. — Fig. 2. Back view of a Flower. — Fig. 3. Side view of ditto, with the 
sepals and petals removed ; a. germen ; b. lip. before the flower is expanded ; 
C. anther. — Fig. 4. Back view of the Column and Anther. — Fig. 5. The two pairs 
of Pollen-masses. — All more or less magnified. — Figs. 2, 3, 4, & 5, reduced from 
Professor Lindley’s magnificent work, intitled “ Illustrations of Orchidaceous 
Plants,” from drawings by Francis Bader, Esq. F. R. S., &c. &c. 
* From mulakis, Gr. softness ; from the tender nature of the plant. 
+ See folio 8, note t. 
