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TRIBE V.—GOODYEREA. 
Anther posticous, vertical but inverted; pollinia two, or four in two pairs, attached to 
a single gland either by one or by two caudicles, or without а caudicle ; pollen granular 
or sectile. 
Stigma single, anticous; pollinia 2, or 4 in two pairs 
Spike spirally twisted, lip not saccate, pollinia 4 . . 36. Spiranthes. 
Spike not twisted, lip saccate, pollinia 2 . . . . . 37. Goodyera. 
Stigmas 2, distant, lateral pollinia 2, bipartite (4 in 
Anoectochilus Roxburghii) 
Lip saceate or eymbiform at the base . . . . . . 88. Zeuzine, 
Lip spurred, its apex deeply 2-lobed . . . . . . 39. Anæctochilus. 
36. Spiranthes Richard. 
Terrestrial herbs with tuberous or fibrous roots. Stem leafy. Leaves (in the Indian, 
species) linear. Flowers small, secund, in a spiral spike. Sepals subequal, free or some- 
times cohering with the petals to form an erect hood, the lateral pair gibbous at the 
base. Lip erect, entire or 3-lobed, the base concave, but neither saceate пог spurred, 
the disk bearing lamell or calli. Column short, terete. Stigma single, broad, anticous; 
rostellum erect, obtuse or elongate and bifid. Anther erect, 2-celled; pollina 4, united in 
pairs, sessile on a small gland. Species about 80, in temperate and tropical regions. 
Roots fibrous, leaves lanceolate, radical 
А la Ио ھا‎ S$ SIMON. 
Roots tuberous, leaves ovate all radical . . . . . . . . 2, 8, autumnalis: 
1. SPIRANSHES AUSTRALIS Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub. t. 823, 
Whole plant 12 to 45 dm. high. Root-fbres thick and fleshy. Stem stout or 
slender. .Leaves alternate, clustered near the base of the stem, 3:5 to 10 em. long, 
shortly sheathing, linear or oblanceolate, acute or acuminate. Peduncle with a few 
distant very acuminate bracts. Spike 7-5 to 15 em. long, rachis glandular-pubescent. 
Flowers very small, crowded, secund, arranged in а spiral, white or pink; floral bract 
ovate, longer than the sessile ovary; регатй 3 to 5 mm, long. . Sepals Subequal, ovate- 
oblong, with broad bases and acute reflexed tips. Pedals smaller than the sepals, linear, 
obtuse, their apices reflexed. р oblong, erisped, its base saccate and  biglandular, the 
apex sub-quadrate, truncate, erose. Column short. Rostellum pointed. Stigma broad 
Capsule about 12 mm. long, fusiform, ridged, pubescent. Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch, 464; 
in Journ. Linn. Soc, i, 178; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 270; A. Rich. in Ann, Se. 
Nat. Ser. 2, xv, 78; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 102; King & Pantling in Ann. R. 
Bot. Gard. Cale. viii, 2978 t. 869; Collett Fl. Siml. 495; Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
xxxvi, 4l. 8. flexuosa and S. parviflora Lindl. in Bot. Reg. under t. 823. S. amena 
Bunge Enum. Pl. China 63. 5. nove-Zelandie Hook. £. Fl. New Zeal. 243. Neottia 
australis К. Br. Prod. 319; Don Prod. Fl. Nep. 27. М. crispata Blume Bijdr. 406 
Ann. Roy. Вот, Garn., Carc, Vor. IX. 
