178 peoeessoe lindlet's conteibtjtions to 



23. S. australis, Lindl. in B. Reg. 823. (Sp. australis et densa, Wight, Ic. 

 t. 1724.— Spiranthes, Griffith, Notul. iii. 384. t. 348.— Sp. N. Zelandiae, 

 SooJcer, Fl. N. Zealand, i. 243.) 



Upper Assam, Griffith ; Sunderbunds, id. ; Bootan, id. ; Nilgherries, Per- 

 rottet (864) ; Western India, Jacquemont (411) ; Peshawur, Major Vicary; 

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

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

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

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

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

 of the species previously described {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 

 pudica, 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 Reinwardt' 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. Stylites ; foliis gramineis vix in caulem ascendentibus, caule elato 

 glabro 4-vaginato, spica laxa quaquayersa ovariisque tomentosis, floribus 

 glabris angustis elongatis, sepalorum marginibus rectiusculis, petalis 

 linearibus univeniis, labello oblongo canaliculato apice crispulo pubescente 

 basi calloso-sagittato, columna valde elongata rostello subulate 



China, province of Che-Kiang, Fortune. 



At first I took this for the 1ST. 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 reaches beyond the middle of the lip. 



X. Heepysma, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 506. 



25. H. longicaulis, lAndl. I. c. 



E. Nepal, at 3000 feet, J. B. S. (340). 



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

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

 with a very small middle lobe. 



XI. An^ctochiltts, Blume, Fl. Jav. prsef. vi. 



26. A. elattjs ; foliis radicalibus 3-4 subrotundo-ovatis apiculatis subtus 

 purpurascentibus venis concoloribus, scapo gracili erecto pubescente vaginis 



