in my garden at Ormond, with one exception, were with- 
out a vestige of superterranean parts. In passing it may 
be emphasized that many terrestrial orchids appear to be 
prevalently subterranean in their nature, the stems, 
leaves and flowers being but a brief stage in the devel- 
opmental history. Noteworthy examples of this are the 
species of ‘Triphora including 7° trianthophora, and the 
remarkable Australian species RAizanthella Gardneri 
and Cryptanthemis Slateri, the latter a small herbaceous 
saprophyte wholly subterranean with the exception of 
the flowers which just reach the surface of the ground. 
It is as if the production of flowers were but an inter- 
lude in the vegetative life of the plant, something inci- 
dental to ensure wide distribution of the species. Whether 
or not the flowers of Zeuxine strateumatica are selt-polli- 
nated is a question for which the answer is yet to be 
found, but the rapidity of seed maturation and the abun- 
dance of fertile seeds (often polyembryonic) may be re- 
garded as in a measure bound up with the extraordinary 
rapidity with which the species is becoming established 
in peninsular Florida. 
Zeuxine strateumatica (JLinn.) Schlechter in 
Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 45 (1911) 394. 
Orchis stratewmatica Linnaeus Sp. Pl. ed. 1 (17538) 
943. 
Pterygodium sulcatum Roxburgh Hort. Beng. (1814) 
68, nomen; Fl. Ind. ed. 2, 8 (1882) 452. 
Spiranthes strateumatica Lindley in Bot. Reg. 10 
(1824) sub t. 823. 
Strateuma zeylanica Rafinesque FI. Tellur. pt. 2 
(1837) 89. 
Zeuxine suleata Lindley Gen. & Sp. Orch. Pl. (1840) 
485. 
A denostylis strateumatica Ames Orch. 2 (1908) 59. 
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