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going, however, in several essential particulars. In the first 

 place, it is a smaller plant, has dull purple-pink pendent bells, 

 and is nearly always one-flowered. Then, too, the tiny 

 peduncles are not sharply twisted as in S. amplexifolius, but 

 bend downwards in a graceful curve. The rosy-hued bells 

 are quite hidden beneath the leaves and may be seen only 

 when the long stems are turned over. These bells are 

 streaked outside and lined inside with deep rose colour. 



SHORT-STEMMED TWISTED-STALK 



Kruhsea streptopoides. Lily Family 



Stems: smooth, simple, from an extensively creeping rhizome with 

 a few fibrous roots at each node. Leaves: ovate-lanceolate, acute, the 

 upper sessile, the lower clasping at the base. Flowers: stellate, solitary 

 on curved stalks in the axils at the backs of the upper leaves. Fruit: 

 a globose red berry. 



The stems of this plant grow four to eight inches high 

 from a creeping rhizome. The leaves are narrowly egg- 

 shaped, bright green and shining on both sides, and the little 

 dark rose-coloured flowers grow on curved thread-like stalks 

 at the backs of the upper leaves. The tiny sepals and petals 

 are both wine-coloured at the base, the petals having yel- 

 lowish-green reflexed tips. The berries are rounded and 

 bright red. The Short-stemmed Twisted-stalk closely re- 

 sembles the Pink Twisted-stalk, but differs from it in having 

 a much more slender rootstock and shorter stems. 



FLY-SPOTTED ORCHIS 



Orchis rotundifolia. Orchid Family 



Stems: slender. Leaves: leaf solitary, orbicular to oval, with one or 

 two sheathing scales below it. Flowers: spike two-to-ten flowered, sub- 

 tended by small bracts; sepals lateral ones spreading; petals similar to 

 the sepals ; lip longer than the petals, three-lobed, the middle lobe larger, 

 dilated, notched at the apex ; spur slender, shorter than the lip. 



