NEOTTEJE— SPIRANTHIDJE. 465 
centibus, bracteis ovatis ovario longioribus, labello oblongo apice 
dilatato crispo supra piloso. 
Neottia crispata. Blume Bijdr. 406. 
a. Spicà pubescente mediocri. 
Epipactis foliis plerisque ex lineari-lanceolatis. Gmel. fl, sib. 1. t. 3. f. 1. 
Neottia amena. M. Bieb. fl. taur. cauc. 3. 606, 
Spiranthes amena. Brongn, enum. pl. chin. 63. Led. A. alt. 4. 173. 
B. spicá pubescente elongatà pluries spirali. 
Neottia flexuosa. Smith in Rees. 
S. flexuosa. Lindl. in Bot. Reg: 823. Spreng. syst. l. c. 
Neottia australis. R. Brown prod. 319. Don prodr. fl. nep. 27. 
y. Spicà valdé elongatà pubescente, floribus minoribus. 
Neottia parviflora. Smith in Rees. 
S. parviflora, Lindl. l. c. 
? Neottia strateumatica. R. Br. prodr. 319. 
? Spiranthes strateumatica. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 823. 
? Orchis strateumatica. Linn. sp. pl. 1336. fl. zeyl, 319. 
8. spicà breviore pubescente, foliis omnibus radicalibus (plantaginea). | 
S. Wightiana. Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7378. 
e. Spicà glabrà. 
S. pudica. Lindl. Coll. Bot. t. 30. Spreng. syst. 3.708. 
Aristotelia spiralis. Zour. f. cochinch. 
Neottia sinensis. Pers. syn. 2. 511. 
Hab. in Asia, a gradu 50? lat. Sept. ad. 43°. lat. aust.; ad Ircutiam et 
Catharinopolin, Gmelin ; Doroninsk, Prescott ; Bootan, Griffith herb. ind. 
19.; per omnem Indiam septentrionalem, Royle, Wallich ; necnon in 
montibus peninsule, Wight, et Zeylone, Walker; in China, Vacheli ; 
Java, Blume ; Australia ad Portum Jackson in palustribus, Cunningham ; 
Tasmannia, Gunn 754 ; (v. fere omnes s. sp.; €, v. c. et. s. sp. collegit cel. 
Vachell.) 
Of this very variable plant I have examined specimens from every 
country above enumerated, except from Java; and I have little doubt that 
all the forms and synonyms above quoted belong to one and the same 
species. To var. y some uncertainty may attach, but it does not seem to 
me to possess any greater peculiarity than that of the flowers being a 
little smaller. Differences in stature, pubescence, colour and developement 
of inflorescence, and the uncommon circumstance of an Orchidaceous plant 
being so widely dispersed (for the species of the order are usually local) 
have been the causes of so many species being proposed. In all the 
varieties I find the leaves inconstant in form. ‘The var. à is very like S. 
autumnalis, and has the greatest claim to be regarded as a species. 
This species scarcely differs from S. æstivalis except in the rounded 
dilated hairy apex of the lip and constantly smaller flowers. Sprengel, 
With singular perversity, characterizes my S. pudica, which is remarkable 
forits perfect smoothness, as a pubescent species! and, while he distin- 
guishes after me S. parviflora, flexuosa et pudica, reduces to S. amena, my 
S. congesta, which is really a different species. 
Asit appears that the Orchis strateumatica of Linnæus is a Neottia, 
according to Brown's idea of that genus, I presume it must belong to 
this species because I have seen no other Spiranthes from Ceylon ; at the 
same time it is to be observed that the character given by Linnaeus is 
altogether at variance with the genus Spiranthes, 
September 1840. PPP 
