Sptranthes,] OXLVIII. OROHIDEEX. (J, D. Hooker.) 103 
imbricating, flowers in a dense cylindric spike. S. Wightiana, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 
7978. S. densa, A. Rich. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, xv. 79: S. australis, Wight Ic. 
t 1724 (left-hand fig.).—Nilghiri Mts. 
2. S. autumnalis, Rich. Orchid. Europ. Ann. 57; glandular-pubes- 
cent, root of elongate stout tubers, leaves in a tuft at the side of the flowering 
stem ovate, bracts ovate-lanceolate acuminate exceeding the ovary, lip 
oblong-panduriform glabrous, base 2-glandular. Lindl. Gen. & Sp. 
Orchid. 469; in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 277; Boiss. Fl. Orient. v. 90; 
Reichb. Fl. t, AT. 
,, WESTERN HIMALAYA ; at Lohoo Ghat, Thomson (Fl. May).—Distris. Affghan- 
istan, Caucasus to the Atlantic, 
Root of 2 fleshy fusiform or subcylindric tubers 3-13 in. long. Leaves 1-13 in., 
on a very short lateral stem that flowers in the following year. Scape with the 
rather stout raceme 4-6 in. ; spike twisted ; flowers secund greenish white, variable 
m size, usually larger than in S. australis.—This common European species has not 
been recorded from any locality between the Caucasus and Affghanistan. Boissier 
rts In describing the tubers as napiform. In Europe it flowers in October to 
December ; in India and Affghanistan in April and May. 
88. NEOTTIA, Linn. 
. Terrestrial erect brown leafless herbs ; rootstock with fibres, stem 
simple laxly sheathed. Flowers racemose. Sepals subequal, free, lanceo- 
» Concave at length spreading, lateral faleate. Petals narrow. Lip pen- 
ulous from the base of the column, larger than the sepals, 2-fid, base flat or 
concave, Column erect or incurved, subterete; stigma transverse ` anther 
erect or inclined forwards, cells contiguous; pollen in loosely connected 
Masses, pendulous from the gland of the rostellum.—Species 3, temperate 
urope and Asia, 
Neorrra srrargumatica, Br. Prodr. 319 (in note). In a note under Neottia 
australis, Brown refers the Orchis strateumatica of Linnaeus (Flor. Zey lan. n. 319; 
Sp. Plant, 1, i. 943) to Spiranthes, on the faith of a specimen in Hermann’s 
erbarium ; but Linnzus' character of * spur slender as long as the ovary ” is 
Quite opposed to this determination. I do not know what it is. 
, N. listeroides, Lindl. in Royle Ill. 368; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 458 ; 
163 CP. Linn. Soc. i. 176. N. Lindleyana, Dene in Jacquem. Voy, Bot. 
; t. 163 
in ROXPERATE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir eastwards to Sikkim, alt. 5-10,000 ft. 
neon, and 10-11,000 ft. in Sikkim. sodes 3-4 
lax em with the raceme 8-14 in., high, stout or slender, stiff, flexuons ; shea dene 
bran aceme 6-12 in., lax-fld., laxly pubescent; bracts j-3 in., § )ea iir g mem- 
eate 1. as long as the erect pedicels; flowers 4 in. long, red brow n; sepals tru n 
e se Weil petals much narrower, margins convolute ; lip 2-3 times as i ng as 
at ei " linear-oblong, cleft into two ovate or linear-subacute para el Capsule 
in, ] ? the way up, nearly flat with a dorsal ridge; ovary pubescent. 
* ‘ong, ellipsoid, erect. 
89. LISTERA. Br. 
Terrestrial erect 2-leaved herbs, with fibrous roots from a short root- 
and 54/746 broad, subopposite. Flowers rather small, racemed. me s 
basa o ats subequal, free, spreading or reflexed. Lip pendulous or) & d. 
of the column, usually longer than the sepals, narrow, entire or'z-üd. 
