at base, somewhat enlarged, together with gibbose-saccate base 
of lip form an obtuse mentum. Petals agglutinate with dorsal 
sepal, at most oblique at base. Lip conduplicate, arcuate, lower 
half rather fleshy, excavate-gibbose at base with marginal thick- 
enings and continuous with the incurved column-foot. Column 
rather slender, horizontal to suberect, with a short, incurved 
foot; stigmata 2, confluent; rostellum filiform, thin, pliable. 
Anther ovate-cordate, acute; pollinia clavate with a linear- 
oblong viscidium. Ovary cylindric, barely twisted. 
Terrestrial, large plants with fasciculate, fleshy roots or tu- 
bers. Leaves, when present, basal, few. Scape erect, vaginate, 
terminated by a loosely few-flowered, commonly secund spike. 
Flowers large, horizontal. 
TYPE: Spiranthes hyemalis Rich. & Gal. 
Three species native to Mexico and Guatemala. 
Index to species 
Funckiella congestiflora (L.O. Wms.) Garay, comb. nov. 
Basionym: Spiranthes congestiflora L.O. Wms. in Bot. Mus. Leafl. 12: 
227, 1946. 
hyemalis (Rich. & Gal.) Schltr. 
Funckiella stolonifera (Ames & Correll) Garay, comb. nov. 
Basionym: Spiranthes stolonifera Ames & Correll in Bot. Mus. Leafl. 10: 
63, 1942. 
Galeottiella Schltr. in Beth. Bot. Centralbl. 37 (2): 360, 1920. 
Etymology: In honor of Henri-Guillaume Galeotti (1814 
1858) who collected extensively in Mexico, espe- 
cially orchids, between December 1835 and June 
1840. 
Sepals dissimilar, erect; dorsal sepal deeply concave, halfway 
adnate to back of column; lateral sepals long-decurrent on 
column-foot, basally somewhat connate, together with incurved 
tip of column-foot form an internal nectary, apices spreadingly 
revolute. Petals narrow, interior margins agglutinate with dorsal 
sepal, anterior margin thickened, ciliolate. Lip spathulate- 
cochleate, very fleshy with thin margins, sessile, parallel with 
column, somewhat gibbose at base. Column slender with a rec- 
tangularly bent apex and an incurved foot; stigmata 2, approxi- 
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