SPIRANTHES ó71 



SOTTO TIIIBI SlXO^Oi 



•>»1>II(ANTIÌK. 



Spiraìnthiì;,€ Puri. 



Spiranthid^e Lindi, orchid. p. 441. 



Perigonii ringentis phylla plus niinusve conniventia vel connata. 

 Labellnm difforme, cum gynostemio parallelum, in calcar vel saccuni 

 basi procluctum. Gynostemium teretiusculum , carnosum, in pcdem 

 prodiictum. 



ce. SPIRAMTIIES C. L. Wch. 



C. L. Rkh. in mém. du Museiim 4. p. 50. Lindi, orchid. p. 46S. Endl. 



geti: pi. p. 2J2. Reich. orchid. p. 150. 

 Ophrydis species Linn. sp. pi. p. 1340. 

 Serapiadis species Scop. (l. carn. edit. 2. lom. 2. p. 201. 

 Epipactidis species Ali. fi. ped. 2. p. 152. 

 NeottÌK species Wìlld. sp. pi. 4. p. 74 et pi. nuctor. 

 Orchiastruni Mich. nov. pi. (jen. p. SO. 



Perigonii pliylla exteriora lateralia labello subopposita , basi vix sac- 

 cata, patentia,supremum cum binis interioribus suba^qualibus connivens 

 vel plusminus connatum. Labellum anticum, basi vix saccatum, canalicu- 

 latum, gynostemium basi amplectens, lamina integerrima vel fimbriata, 

 recurva. Gynostemium subsemiteres , elougatura, apice stigma am- 

 plum, ovatum ferens. Anthera bilocularis, libera, stipitata, roslello 

 lamellari, recto, apice bifido incumbens. Pollinia 2 , iineari-clavata , 

 bifida , glandulse communi sublineari afiixa. Poliinis granula 4 in cor- 

 pum oblongum coherentia. Staminodia lamelliformia , brevia, acuta. 

 Ovarium oblongo-lineare, contortum, apice dorsi gibbum , cum perigo- 

 nio rectangulum, sessile. Capsula membranacea, oblongo-linearis vel 

 ovalis, sexcostata. Semina minutissima, linearla; integumento e cel- 

 lulis fibrosis composito, utrinque attenuato; embryone ovali. 



Abito. — Piante fornite di fibre radicali carnose, due, tre o quat- 



