102 CXLVIII. ORCHIDEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Haemaria. 



Caudex very short. Stem ascending from the base, 6-10 in., stout or slender, 

 pubescent. Leaves subradical, 1-3 in., shortly petioled, elliptic or ovate, apiculate, 

 fleshy, dark red beneath. Raeemes many-fld. ; rachis and ovary tomentose ; bracts 

 large, concave, membranous, acuminate, coloured ; perianth ^~f in. diam. ; petals 

 pinkish, broadly ovate, apiculate, 1-nerved, nerve with flexuous nervules ; sepals 

 linear, 1-nerved ; lip longer than the sepals, recurved ; sac small, 2-lobed ; claw with 

 dilated sides; lobes of limb divaricate, quadrately oblong. Reichenbach's rar. 

 Dawsoniana from Moulmein (Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 142) consists of leaves only and 

 is probably an Ancectochilus ; it may or may not be his var. Dawsonianus, Gard. 

 Chron. 1872, 321 (Anectochilus Dawsonianus, Low in Gard. Chron. 1868, 1038) 

 with red reticulations on the leaves. 



86. DOSSXNXA, Morr. 



A Borneau genus, not hitherto found in British India. The plant referred to it 

 by Lindley is Ancectochilus brevilabris (see p. 95). 



87. SPIRANTHES, Rich. 



Terrestrial herbs, roots fibrons or tuberous ; stem leafy, or the flowering 

 leafless. Leaves various. Flowers small, secund, in often twisted spikes. 

 Sepals subequal, free, or more or 1 j>*i iriag 1 with the petals in an erect 

 hood, lateral gibbous at the base. Lip sessile or clawed, erect, entire or 

 3-lobed, base concave, disk callous or lamellate. Column short, terete, 

 base often decurrent on the ovary ; stigma anticous, broad, rostellum 

 erect obtuse or elongate and 2-fid ; anther erect, 2-celled ; pollinia pendulous 

 from the gland of the rostellum. Species about 80, temperate and 

 tropical. 



1. S. australis, Lindl. in Sot. Reg. t. 823 ; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 464 ; 

 Joum. Linn. Soc. i. 178 ; tall, pubescent, root of many fleshy fibres, leaves 

 on the base of the flowering stem linear-lanceolate or linear obtuse or acute 

 or oblanceolate, spikes slender, bracts ovate exceeding the ovary, lip oblong 

 crisped, base saccate 2-glandular, tip dilated retuse or apiculate, disk hairy. 

 Dalz. $ Gils. Bomb. Fl. 270; Wight Ic. t. 1724 (middle and right-hand 

 figs.}. S. longispicata, A. Rich, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, xv. 78. S. flexuosa, 

 & parviflora, Lindl. in Bot.Reg. under t. 823. S. pudica, Lindl. Coll. Sot. 

 t. 30. S. amcena, Bunge Enum. PI. Chin. 63. S. novse Zelandicee, Hook. Fl. 

 New Zeald. i. 243. Neottia australis, Br. Prodr. 319; Don Prodr. 27. 

 N. crispata, Blume Bijdr. 406. N. flexuosa & parviflora, Smith in Rees 

 Cyclop. N. sinensis, Pers. Syn. ii. 511. N. amosna, Bieb. FT. Taur. 

 Cauc. iii. 606. Gyrostachys australis, Blume Fl. Jav. 107, t. 37, 38. 

 Spiranthes, Griff'. Notul. iii. 384; Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 348. 



Throughout INDIA from the PAN JAB and W. TIBET to UPPER ASSAM, and south- 

 wards to CEYLON and CHITTAGONG ; ascending to 7500 ft. in the Sikkim Himalaya, 

 and 7000 ft. in the Nilghiris. DISTRIB. Afghanistan, N. Asia, China, Java, Australia, 

 N. Zealand. 



Plant 6-18 in. high, stout or slender, sometimes almost tuberous. Leaves 

 1-5 in., very variable, rarely oblong and sessile, often scattered and lower long- 

 petioled ; sheaths rather distant. Spike 36 in., twisted, glandular-pubescent ; 

 flowers secund, close-set ; perianth T \y- ^ in. long, horizontal, reddish or white ; 

 sepals obtuse, tips (and of truncate petals) recurved. There is a great difference in 

 the size of the flowers of this species, but the large and small fld. seem to inhabit 

 the same areas. 



VAR. Wightiana, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. 465 ; very stout, sheaths many almost 



