102 CXLVIII. ORCHIDEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [Haemaria, 
Caudex very short. Stem ascending from the base, 6-10 in., stout or slender, 
pubescent. Leaves subradical, 1-3 in., shortly petioled, elliptic or ovate, apiculate, 
fleshy, dark red beneath. Racemes many-fld.; rachis and ovary tomentose ; bracts 
large, concave, membranous, acuminate, coloured; perianth à-2 in. diam.; petals 
pinkish, broadly ovate, apiculate, l-nerved, nerve with flexuous nervules ; sepals 
linear, 1-nerved ; lip longer than the sepals, recurved ; sac small, 2-lobed ; claw with 
dilated sides; lobes of limb divaricate, quadrately oblong.—Reichenbach’s var. 
Dawsoniana trom Moulmein (Trans, Linn. Soc. xxx. 142) consists of leaves only an 
is probably an Anectochilus; it may or may not be his var. Dawsonianus, Gard. 
Chron, 1872, 321 (Anectochilus Dawsonianus, Low in Gard. Chron. 1868, 1038) 
with red reticulations on the leaves. 
86. DOSSINIA, Morr. 
A Bornean genus, not hitherto found in British India. The plant referred to it 
by Lindley is Anectochilus brevilabris (see p. 95). 
87. SPIRANTHES, Rich. 
Terrestrial herbs, roots fibrous or tuberous; stem leafy, or the flowering 
leafless. Leaves various. Flowers small, secund, in often twisted spikes. 
Sepals subequal, free, or more or l »»»»rinz with the petals in an erect 
hood, lateral gibbous at the base. Lip sessile or clawed, erect, entire oF 
3-lobed, base concave, disk callous or lamellate. Column short, terete, 
base often decurrent on the ovary; stigma anticous, broad, rostellum 
erect obtuse or elongate and 2-fid ; anther erect, 2-celled ; pollinia pendulous 
from the gland of the rostellum.—Species about 80, temperate and 
tropical. 
1. S. australis, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 823; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 464; 
Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 178; tall, pubescent, root of many fleshy fibres, leaves 
on the base of the flowering stem linear-lanceolate or linear obtuse or acute 
or oblanceolate, spikes slender, bracts ovate exceeding the ovary, lip oblong 
crisped, base saccate 2-glandular, tip dilated retuse or apiculate, disk hairy. 
Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 270; Wight Ic. t. 1724 (middle and right-hand 
Jigs.). S.longispicata, A. Rich. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2?» xv. 78. S. flexuosa, 
& parviflora, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. under t. 823. S. pudica, Lindl. Coll. Bot. 
t. 30. S.amena, Bunge Enum. Pl. Chin. 63. S. nove Zelandicæ, Hook. Fl. 
New Zeald. i. 243. Neottia australis, Br. Prodr. 319; Don Prodr. 27. 
N. crispata, Blume Bijdr. 406. N. flexuosa & parviflora, Smith in Rees 
Cyclop. N. sinensis, Pers. Syn. ii. 511. N. amena, Bieb. Fl. Taur. 
Cauce. i3. 606. Gyrostachys australis, Blume Fl. Jav. 107, t. 37, 98— 
Spiranthes, Grif. Notul. iii. 984; Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 348. 
Throughout INDIA from the PANJAB and W. TrpeT to UPPER Assam, and south- 
wards to CEYLON and CHITTAGONG ; ascending to 7500 ft. in the Sikkim Himalaya, 
and 7000 " in the Nilghiris.—Disrris. Affghanistan, N. Asia, China, Java, Australia, 
. Seaiand, 
Plant 6-18 in. high, stout or slender, sometimes almost tuberous. Leaves 
1-5 in., very variable, rarely oblong and sessile, often scattered and lower long- 
petioled; sheaths rather distant. Spike 3-6 in., twisted, glandular-pubescent ; 
flowers secund, close-set; perianth j-} in. long, horizontal, reddish or whites 
sepals obtuse, tips (and of truncate petals) recurved.— There is a great difference n 
.the size of the flowers of this species, but the large and small fld. seem to inhabi 
the same areas. 
Var. Wightiana, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. 465; very stout, sheaths many almost 
