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23. S. australis, Lindl. in B. Seg, 823. (Sp. australis et densa, WigU^ Ic. 

 t. 1724.— Spiranthes, Griffith, NotuL iii. 384. t. 348.— Sp. N. Zelandi®, 

 HooJceTy FL IT, Zealand, i. 243.) 



Upper Assam, Cfriffith ; Sunderbunds, id. ; Bootan, id, ; Nilghemes, Per- 

 rottet (864) ; Western India, Jacquemont (411) ; Peshawur, Major Tlcart/i 

 Java, Seinwardt ; Hong Kong, Champion ; China, Sowchow, Fortune ; 

 Chusan hiUs, id.; Canara, Dalzell in hb. Stocks; N.W. Himalaya, 

 6000-9000 feet, T. Thomson (326) ; Khasia, 4000-6000 feet, id., Lohh^ 

 Griffith ; Sikkim, 6000-10,000 feet, J. -D. K. (327). 



In the long list of localities here given, there occur all the forms 

 of the species previously descrihed {Gen. et Sp. Orch. 465) and 

 others, but they run into each other in so many directions, that 

 any attempt further to define the forms would be unsuccessful. The 

 most distinct of all is the Chinese plant, which I formerly called 

 pttdica, and which seems to have invariably a smooth rachis and 

 ov^ry, while all the others are more or less downy. Fortune's 

 Sowchow plant is said to have yellow flowers, which I take to be 

 a mistake, there being nothing whatever in its structure to sepa- 

 rate it from the red-flowered S. pudica. One of the Java plants 

 in Keinwardt*s herbarium has the red flowers, in another they are 

 white, and it appears that in this respect, as well as in the size of 

 the flowers, the specimens vary from hill to hill. Griffith seems, 

 however, only to have seen the white sort. 



24. S. STT1ITE3 ; foliis gramineis vix in caulem ascendentibus, caule ebto 

 glabro 4-vaginato, spica lax4 quaquaversa ovariisque tomentosis, floribus 

 glabris angustis elongatis, sepalorum marginibus rectiuscidis, petalis 

 linearibus univeniis, labello oblongo canalicnlato apice crispulo pubescente 

 basi calloso-sagittato, column^ valde elongate rostello subiilato. 



China, province of Che-Kiang, Fortune. 



At first I took this for the N. American Sp. cernua, some of the 

 states of which it much resembles, and with which it corresponds 

 in the sagittate lip ; but its flowers are narrower in proportion to 

 the breadth, and its column is so long that the attenuated point 

 of the rostellum rea<;hes beyond the middle of the lip. 



LindL Gen 



longicaulis 

 al, at 3000 



Flowers white, tinged with pink (Cathcart). The lip is some- 

 times rounded and nearly equally 3-lobed ; sometimes it is oblate 

 with a very small middle lobe. 



XI. Ai^jECTOCHiiiiTS, BlvmCy Fl. Jav. praef. vi. 



26. A. ELATTTS; foliis radicaUbus 3-4 subrotundo-oVatis apiculatis aubtufl 

 purpurascentibus venis concoloribus, scape gracili erecto pubescente vagim« 



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