314 CXX. ORCHIDER. [ Spiranthes. 
Flowers small, spirally arranged in a terminal spike. Stems leafy, or 
sometimes at the time of flowering with sheathing scales only. 
A considerable genus generally diffused over the temperate and tropical regions of 
the globe; the ouly Australian species has a wide range over Asia and a part of 
rope, 
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a cluster of thick fibres or oblong tubers. Stem glabrous below the in- 
mg 
iis dilated near the base but not saccate. Labellum as lon 
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late crisped or almost fringed lamina. Anther scarcely acuminate but 
much longer than the rostellum.—Wight Ic. t. 1724; Hook. f. FI. 
oy ii. 15; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 476; Neottia australis, R. Br. 
rod. 319. ; 
Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton bay, F. Mueller; Armidale, Riley. 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, A. Cunningham, Woolls; Blue Moun- 
tains, Miss Atkinson; New England, C. Stuart; Macleay river, Fitzgerald, Clarence 
river, Beckler; Richmon river, Fawcett, but in most places said to be very rare, d 
ictoria. Mitta-Mitta, Broadribb and Snowy rivers and Lake Omeo, F. Mueller ; 
Portland, Crouch. : 
Tasmania. Circular Head, Gunn ; Cheshunt, Archer ; Swanport, Story. 
The species is also in New Zealand and in a great part of tropical and temperate 
Asia, extending to some parts of E D 
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27. CALOCHILUS, R. Br. 
Dorsal 
broadly lanceolate, spreading ; petals much shorter, broadly falcate. 
Labellum as long or longer, undivided, contracted at the base, uet 
1 rmi 
tubers. Leaf usually solitary, long and narrow, but usuall 
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erect almost leaf-like sheathing bracts on the stem. Flowers few in 9 
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