62 Malawis ophioglossioides.
ovate, amplexicaule leaf, from the bosom of which the stem seems
to emerge. Leaf glabrous and shining on both sides, finely reticulated—
the reticulation very apparent when the leaf is old or dried.
Spike long, crowded, a few flowers only expanding at a time. Flowers
small, pedunculate, siskin-green; germ large after florescence. Grows
in rich shady woods, near the roots of trees, in the same kind of soil
in which the Orchidean plants generally delight. Not common.
Flowering in July and August.
The figure represents the plant as large as life—specimens occasionally
are found larger, with more flowers of the spike expanded,
but many are much smaller, with only one or two flowers open.
