Anther ovate-cucullate, acute; pollinia clavate with an elongate, 
oblong-linear viscidium. Ovary subcylindric-fusiform, some- 
what twisted. 
Plants terrestrial, erect, commonly leafy during flowering 
time. Roots fasciculate, stipitately fusiform, fleshy. Leaves sev- 
eral, mostly cauline on lower part of stem, vaginate. Stem erect, 
vaginate-bracteate above, terminating in a conical to cylindric, 
densely many-flowered spike. Flowers large, showy, bicolored, 
erect, quaquaversal. 
TYPE: Neottia cinnabarina Llave & Lex. 
One species native to Mexico and Guatemala. 
Index to species 
Dichromanthus cinnabarinus (Llave & Lex.) Garay, comb. nov. 
Basionym: Neottia cinnabarina Llave & Lex., Nov. Veg. Desc. 2, Orch. 
Op: 3, 1825, 
Dikylikostigma Kral. 
Preussii Krzl. = Discyphus scopulariae (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 
Discyphus Schltr. in Fedde, Rep. 15: 417, 1919. 
Etymology: Prefix Di= two and skyphos = cup, in reference 
to the nature of the stigmata, which are terminal 
and in dry condition form distinct cup-like 
cavities. 
Syn.: Dikylikostigma Krzl. in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 7: 
321, 1919. 
Type: Dikylikostigma Preussii Krzl. 
Sepals subsimilar, ringent; dorsal sepal deeply concave, bas- 
ally fuse with lateral sepals for a short distance; lateral sepals 
connate at base, long-decurrent on column-foot, together form 
an internal, cyathiform nectary. Petals somewhat sinuous, free 
from dorsal sepal, with a decurrent base. Lip long-clawed, the 
claw fully adnate to connate part of lateral sepals, fleshy sagit- 
tate at base. Column short, conduplicate-furrowed in front, 
basally produced in a long-decurrent, incurved foot; stigmata Z. 
terminal on top of truncate column, cupuliform, well separated 
by the frontal furrow of column, rostellum arrect, deeply bifid to 
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