GENERA. 
Tab. I. 
The parts of Fructification of Malaxis paludosa (Gen. 
and Sp. of Orchid. PL p. 24) ; from a sketch made by 
Mr. Bauer in July 1801. 
1. A front view of the expanded flower, shewing the relative position of 
the petals, sepals and column; magnified 15 times. 
2. A side view of the same; the bractea seen at the foot of the ovarium ; 
magnified 15 times. 
3. A back view of the same, shewing the form of the ovarium and the 
twisted state of the peduncle; magnified 15 times. 
4. A side view of the ovarium, column, and labellum of the unexpanded 
flower, the sepals and lateral petals having been removed; the 
anther is seen laterally, reposing upon the thin anterior lip of the 
column; the pollen masses not yet visible; magnified 15 times. 
5. A back view of the column of an unexpanded flower, shewing the 
position of the anther with regard to the anterior lip of the column ; 
magnified 30 times. 
fi. A side view of the same, shewing the relative proportion and position 
, fi ie anther, the anterior lip of the column, and the prominence 
which occupies the face of the same part; magnified 30 times. 
6* A transverse section of the anther of the same, shewing the existence 
at this period of a separation in each cell in the middle of the 
pollen, which finally causes it to appear in the form of four incum¬ 
bent masses, as seen at fig. 13 and 14; magnified 30 times. 
7- A front view of the column in the same state ; this shews that the true 
form of the anterior lip of the column is two-lobed, with a marginal 
tumour between the lobes; this tumour is the true stigma. In front 
is the same prominence as is seen laterally at fig. 6; from which it 
appears that its superior extremity forms the anterior margin of 
the stigmatic cavity, and that at its lower extremity it is continuous 
with the labellum, the scar caused by the separation of which is 
distinctly shewn; magnified 30 times. 
