Zeuxine.] Orchzdecs. 215 



48. ZEUXINE, Ltndl. 

 Terrestrial, leafy herbs; stem creeping below; 1. sessile or 

 petioled, narrow or broad, membranous; fl. in a terminal spike, 

 small ; sep. subequal, dorsal cohering with the pet. in a hood, 

 lateral free, connivent or spreading; pet. narrower; lip sessile 

 or shortly clawed, cymbiform or saccate, with a small entire 

 or wing-like terminal lobe, sac not produced beyond the base 

 of the lateral sep., with two calli or spurs at the base within ; 

 column very short, 2-keeled or winged in front, rostellum 

 short, stigmatic lobes 2, marginal; anth. dorsal on the column, 

 2-celled, membranous, pollinia 2, pyriform, attached by a 

 gland to the rostellum with or without a (sometimes append- 

 aged) caudicle. — Sp. about 20 ; 11 in FL B. Ind. 



L. all cauline, sessile, erect, narrow . . . . i. Z. sulcata. 

 L. towards the base of the stem, ovate or oblong. 



Wings of lip toothed 2. Z. longilabris. 



Wings of lip entire. 



L. oval-lanceolate 3. Z. regia. 



L. broadly ovate 4. Z. flava. 



I. Z. sulcata, Lindl. Gen. aiid Sp. Orch. 485 (1840). 



Fl. Zeyl. n. 319. Orchis stfateitiiiatica, L. Sp. PI. 943. Lindl. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. i. 186. Thw. Enum. 312. C. P. 3017. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 106. Wight, Ic. tt. 1724 bis (Z. bractcafa), 1725 

 (Z. brevifolui), and 1726 (Z. robiista). Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutt. viii. t. 38 1. 



Whole plant 2-10 in. high, leafy throughout, glabrous; 

 roots fibrous; 1. erect, lower 1-2 in., sessile, linear-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, upper gradually smaller, margins usually recurved, 

 midrib stout; spike J-2 in., strict, dense-fld., bracts |-i in., 

 about as long as the fl. or longer, erect, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 hyaline; sep. about ^ in. long, oblong, obtuse, membranous; 

 pet. oblong, obtuse; lip about as long as the lateral sep., 

 cymbiform, contracted into a short pubescent claw, terminated 

 by a very small hammer-headed simple or 2-lobed limb; 

 column very short, top 2-winged ; anth. short, ovate, covered 

 by the wings of the column, pollinia pyriform, attached 

 to the face below the tip of a linear gland; fr. \ in. long, 

 ellipsoid. 



Low country; rather rare. Kukul Korale ; Dolosbagie ; Nilgala, Uva 

 Pasdun Korale. Fl. Dec, Jan.; sep. and pet. greenish-white, lip yellow 



Throughout India, China, Burma, Java, Philippine Is. 



R. Br. (Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 319) remarks that Hermann's specimens 

 of Orchis strateinnatica., Z., are a Neottia as he understood that genus ; 

 hence Lindl. (Gen. and Sp. Orch. 465) referred the name to Spiranthes 

 aicstralis as being the only species of that genus from Ceylon. 



