TAB. I I.
The parts of Fructification of L I P A R I S L O S E L I I (Gen. and
Sp. of Orch. PL p. 28) ; from a sketch made by Mr. Bauer
in 1801.
1. A front view of the expanded flower, shewing the relative position of
the petals, sepals, and column ; magnified 10 times.
2. A side view of the same.
3. A front view of the column of an expanded flower; magnified 20 times.
In this figure is shewn the true position of the anther, with regard
to the stigmatic cavity; the clinandrium is seen to have two obtuse
teeth at the back, and the column to have two fleshy ears or lobes
towards its summit, and a longitudinal furrow in its face. At an
earlier period there are two distinct tubercles at the foot of the
column, and the longitudinal furrow is shallower. Before impregnation
the anther is not incumbent upon the clinandrium, but so
much erect that the cells are distinctly visible nearly their whole
length, when the column is viewed from the front without disturbing
the anther. At this period the true stigma is found to consist
of two transparent, contiguous, but distinct, round glands, which
afterwards disappear.
4. Represents the same column with the anther turned back, so as to lay
naked the clinandrium and to expose the stigmatic cavity and pollenmasses.
From this it appears that the two fleshy ears or lobes at
the upper end of the column form the two sides of the quadrangular
stigmatic surface, that the clinandrium is at right angles with the
axis of the column, and that the position of the pollen-masses in
the cavities of the anther is side by side, and not incumbent.
5. Is a view of the face of the anther without its pollen; magnified
20 times. The position of its lobes will be found upon comparison
with tab. 1. fig. 12. to be the reverse of that of Malaxis.
6'. A transverse section of the last.