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Peristylus.| ORCHIDE& (Rolfe). 115 
sessile; rostellum subulate or tooth-like, situated between the 
anther-cells. Capsule ellipsoid or oblong 
Terrestrial herbs with ope sometimes leafy stems, and oblong or subglobose 
rs ; leaves radical and cauline, few or numerous, decreas asing upwards ; flowers 
rather small, shortly pedicelled, ‘arranged in narrow spikes or racemes ;_ bracti 
icteas 
Species about 50, the majority Indian and extending into the 
Malayan and Chinese regions, with six tropical Shien ose and the 
following Caruehas anomalous species within our limit 
Me A pak oe plant 1-1} ft. high, slender, somewhat 
‘nal with | and a few narrow basal s eaths ; leaves 
4-5, subsessile, aliptic ovat, — e or acuminate, Salton 1-24 
in. long, 4-1 in, broad; racemes 1—3 in. long, lax ; bracts narrowly 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, peri 3 lin, long ; pedicels shorter than 
the bracts ; flowers small ; sepals ovate, subobtuse, about 1 lin. long, 
l-nerved ; ’ petals obliquely ovate-oblong , subobtuse, rather gp eas 
Otia oo —— no 108 ; Bolus in Journ. Lin ; ; 
Krénzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i Platanthera wavabdacs Schlechter 
in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 50, : 
Eastern REcIon: Natal; Ingoma, on half-decayed trees, Gerrard, 1541! 
XXIII. STENOGLOTTIS, Lindl. 
Sepals free, subequal, ultimately spreading. Petals somewhat 
narrower than the sepals, suberect. Lip continuous with the base of 
the column, sire wang spurless, 3—5-fid at the apex. Column 
very short and broad; anther-bed broad and erect, thickened at 
the margin. aa pede pollinia granular, affixed a 
short stipes to a small oblo ong gland ; staminodes ose oblong,« 
tuberculate or glandular at the apex. Stigmatic processes 2, clavate 
or oo short - rostellum broad and very short. Capsule oblong, 
erect 
estrial herbs, with short stems, and tuberiferous or thickened fleshy 
eee roots ; leaves val, numerous, —— or owers small, 
eonty: pedice: lled, ooo loose metimes dense nd ae one-sided 
; brac 
Dies RIB. — 3, two occurring within our limits, the third in British 
Central Afric 
Leaves se ange or less blotched with brown ; ip 
3-lobed, rarely with a pair of short lateral teeth ... (1) fimbriata. 
Leaves lai lip lobed 2-0 ep fo — 
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