Tab. 30. 
SPIRANTHES PUDICA. 
Nar. Orv. Orchidex. Sect. 2. Br. Linn. Syst. Gynandria Monandria. 
SPIRANTHES, Rich. Ophrys, Linn. Neottia, Sw. ‘Br. Gyrostachys, Pers.—Perianthii laciniw in cylindro 
conniventes. Labellum porrectum, planum, apice fimbriatum, basi bicallosum, marginibus columnam cum eo pa~ 
rallelam arcté amplectentibus. Herbe graciles (Europe, Americe Septentrionalis, et Asie temperate). Folia 
angusta, radicalia. ‘Spice dense, tortiles. 
Sprrantues (pudica), foliis lineari-lanceolatis, labello sub-sessili apicem versus crenulato : callis subrotundis, péri- 
anthii laciniis ovario rachique glaberrimis. 
bracteis vaginantibus, 
_Descr. Folia erecta, lineari-lanceolata, acuta, plana, enervia. Scapus glaberrimus, teres, subflexuosus, 
acuminatis vestitus. Flores parvi, albi, erubescentes, in spic tortili elaberrima horizontaliter dispositi. Lacinie glaberrime, 
ovato-lanceolate, obtuse, cum labello parallele. Labellum breviter pedicellatum, oblongum, apice dilatatum, pubescens, co- 
lumnam marginibus oppositis amplectens ; basi callis duobus, villosis, globosis munitum. Columna porrecta, clavata, anticé 
nizum hemisphericum, viridissimum, glabrum ferens, apice in lingua lanceolata, obtusiuscula, dorso uniglandulosa productum. 
? ? b) 
Anthera postica, erecta, 2-locularis, massas pollinis 4, farinaceas, per paria coherentes, elandule gynizi adherentes promens. 
<i AE NTS torent 
We have already, under the article Goodyera pubescens, Tas. 25, endeavoured to explain why we prefer the name 
Spiranthes to that of Neottia ; and on what grounds we differ from the learned President of the Linnean Society 
in considering it distinct from Goodyera. And we think, if the details of the two genera as expressed upon our plates 
be compared, there can be no reasonable doubt of their being truly distinct. 
This very pretty species of Sprranthes was imported by the Horticultural Society from China in the spring of the 
present year (1821) ; and flowered in their stove in July last. The form of its leaves, and the total absence of pu- 
bescence from every part of its inflorescence, afford abundant marks of difference between it and Spiranthes autum- 
nalis, estivalis, and tortilis, with which alone it can possibly be confounded. | 
After the flower of this genus has been expanded for a short time, the glandular portion of the gynizus separates 
from the rest, and adheres firmly to the pollen masses ; thus giving the top of the gynizus, after a certain time, the 
appearance of being cleft. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
1. A flower-bud. 2. The same without its bractea. 3. The same after the lacinie have been removed. 4. The same with- 
out the labellum. 5. The lastin front. 6. The same after the anther is removed. 7. Anther of the bud. 8. Expanded flower. 
9. Thesame without the lacinie. 10. Labellum. 11. Gynizus seen from the side. 12. Anthera. 13. Pollen masses. 
