390 - CXX. ORCHIDEJE. dinis 
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| Flowers small, yellow, in imps or rekon spreading 
racemes in the u 
Besides the Australian Spiel which appears to be endemic, there are two or three 
— allied to it in East India and the Archipelago 
1 stylidioides, Reichb. f. in Herb. Kew. An erect glabrous plant, 
with ipi stems of 6 to 8in. Leaves almost grass-like, linear, taper- 
ing into long g qon, RPM, sheathing abeat bases covering the stem, 
in 
varying from ith 1, 3 or rarely more nerves pmen 
"nderneath. Racemes shorter than the leaves, slender but rigid. 
Bracts lanceolate, 1 to 2 lines long. Ovary nearly 3 lines long at the 
e owering, elongated but still vety narrow when in fruit. 
ditional staminode of that species, except that in some Aves I find the style abortive 
or nearly so, and n: as it were by a staminode. e dorsal points of the pe tals 
i appear sometimes on puis sep 
I have follo wed B Brown in considering the group of Apostasi iew as a tribe of Orchideæ 
Orpen CXXI. BURMANNIACEÆ. 
- Flowers hermaphrodite, regular. Perianth superior, porini 
tubular or campanulate, usually 6-lobed, the 3 inner lobes often smaller 
d, 
sometimes wanting. ens 8 or 6, inserted t nd 
shorter than the perianth rs 2-celled. Ovary inferior, 3-celled 
or with 3 parietal placentas, the ovules very numerous. Style single, 
with 3 short branches stigmatic at the clavate or dilated ends. F 
a capsule opening in loculicidal slits or valves. Seeds minute, the 
bryo appare mogeneous.—Herbs, often slender. Leaves entire, 
radical or nearly so, rarely alternate along the stem, sometimes all 
reduced to small scales h wers term solitary or several along à 
i nal, 
2-branched rarely 3-branched rhachis centrifugally Solent each 
flower opposite to a small often minute brac 
~ A small tropical aipee. usually ee ay nting swamps or wet places, or decaying € 
table soils, common dec and Old World. The only Australian genus 
general range o. of the C 
