1028 BENGAL PLANTS. [Spiranthes. 
924, Spiranthes Rich. 
Terrestrial, leafy herbs, with tuberous or fibrous roots; leaves 
linear. Flowers small, secund, in spiral spikes. Sepals s subequal, 
the lateral pair gibbous at the base. Petals like dorsal sepal, 
sometimes connate with sepals to form an erect hood; lip erect, 
entire or 3-lobed, the base concave but neither saccate nor spurred, 
the disk bearing lamelle or calli. Column short, terete; stigma 
single, broad, anticous; rostellum erect obtuse, or elongate and 
2-fid. Anther erect, 2-celled; pollinia 4, united in pairs, sessile 
on a small gland. 
2104, pe Gear AUSTRALIS LindL; F. B. I. vi. 102. 
ngal, Duars, in grassy savannahs; Chittagong. 
A pei or eal terrestrial herb, 6-18 in. high. 
This species has been found near Chittagong, floating in 
ponds at sea-level. 
925. Vrydagzynea BI. 
Terrestrial, leafy herbs, stem creeping below, roots fibrous; 
leaves petioled, ovate. Flowers small, suberect, spicate. Sepals 
free, dorsal rather smaller than lateral. Petals like dorsal sepal, 
and with it forming a hood over the column; Jip included, sessile 
at the base of the column, membranous, concave, entire ; spur 
ge, inflated, exserted beyond the base of the sepals, with 2 
stipitate calli in its lumen. Column short, inappendiculate, stig- 
matic lobes lateral; rostellum short. Anther short; cells distant; 
pollinia 2, sessile on a large gland. 
2105. beetouminstes viRIpIFLORA Hook. f.; F. B. I. vi. 96. 
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i as terrestrial herb. 
926. Zeuxine Lindl. 
Terrestrial herbs, with succulent, glabrous stems; leaves mem- 
branous, sometimes withering at flowering-time. Flowers small, 
in racemes or spikes. Sepals subequal, the lateral pair free, the 
dorsal concave. Petals like dorsal sepal, and with it forming @ 
h to the column; lip adnate to base of column, cymbiform oF 
saccate, the apical lobe shortly clawed or sessile, divided into two 
oblong, subquadrate, more or less truncate, diverging lobules, oF 
entire, or with narrow, decurved lobules; the basal sac with ¢ 
or lamine within. Column very short, its anterior face with 
