330 BURMANNIACEAE, | Bagnisia. 
for the size of the plant, }-3in. long, about $i. broad, bright rose-pink 
Ne faesh  Parianth campanulate-lanterniform ; tube obovate-oblong, 
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SULLESUS ULicvU oy 
This step appears to me to be retrograde, and NOt at atin necpie .-— 
of late years in the family by Warming, Urban, and Engler. 
Ligh. tomes tice: See HS SH 
Family XXIII. ORCHIDACEAE. 
Herbs, either terrestrial and tuberous-rooted, with annual herbaceous 
stems, or epiphytes with creeping rhizomes emitting fibrous or fleshy 
roots and bearing simple or branched leafy stems often thickened into 
pseudobulbs. Flowers hermaphrodite, solitary or in spikes or racemes 
or panicles, often large and showy. Perianth superior, irregular, of 6 free 
or more or less combined segments, in 2 series; the 3 outer (sepals) all 
similar or the dorsal one larger and more concave than the 2 lateral 
which are always alike; the 3 inner (petals) always dissimilar (except in 
Thelymitra), the 2 lateral alike, but the third (called the lp, or labellwm) 
usually exceedingly different, often spurred, lobed, fringed, or furnished 
with glands or other appendages. Stamens and style confluent into a 
fleshy variously shaped central body facing the lip, called the column; 
anther usually solitary (2 in Cypripedium), placed on the front, top, or 
back of the column, and either free or adnate to it, persistent or deciduous, 
usually 2-celled ; pollen granular or waxy, usually cohering in each cell 
into 1, 2, or 4 pairs of pollen-masses (pollinia), which are either free or 
attached, directly or by a candicle, to a gland on the apex of the stigma | 
(rostellum). . Ovary inferior, 1-celled; ovules numerous, on 3 parictal | | 
placentas ; stigma a viscid depression towards the top or on the front 
of the column, below the anther, facing the lip, upper margin often pro- | 
duced into a beak or peint called the rostellum. Fruit a 1-celled 3-valved | 
capsule ; seeds numerous, very minute; testa loose, reticulate; albumen 
wanting ; embryo solid, fleshy, 
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