142 GYNANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
Bulbous-rooted Aretkusa. 
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. 
f f ft Anther terminal, movable, deciduous. Masses 
of pollen at length cereaceous. 
339. MALAXIS. Swartz. R. Brown. {Orchide(je.) 
Petals narrower than the lip^ spreading 
or deflected. Lip flattened^ undivided^ ses- 
sile^ (mostly situated behind.) Column 
porrected. Pollinia % parallel^ affixed to 
the summit of the stigma. — JVutt. 
liii'ifoiia. 1, M. leaves two, ovate-lanceolate; scape trique- 
trous ; interior petals filiform, reflexed, disco- 
loured ; lip concave, obovate, acute at the apex. 
— TFilld, and Purslu 
Ophrys trifolia, Walt. 
Oplirys scapo nudo, foliis radicalibiis, &c. Gron. 
Virg. p. 138. 
Epidendrum caiile 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. 
longifoiia. 2. M. bulb subrotimd; scape two-leaved; leaves 
broaddanceolate, longer than the scape; spike 
oblong; lip cordate, concave, canaliculate, shor- 
ter than the petals. B. 
M. correaiia, Bart. Prod. Ph. 
