102 oxLViii, OBCHIDBJ!. (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. Racemes many-fld. ; rachis and ovary tomentose ; bracts 

 large, concave, membranous, acuminate, coloured; perianth i-% in. diara.; petals 

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

 linear, l-nerved ; lip longer than the sepals, recurved ; sao small, 2-lobed j claw with 

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

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

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

 Chron. 1872, S2l {AnectocMlv^ Dawsonianus, Low in Gard. Chron. 1868, 1038) 

 with red reticulations on the leaves. 



86. DOSSXNIA, Morr. 



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

 by Lindley is Aneeciochilus hrevilahris (see p. 95). 



87. SPXRANTHES, Rich. 



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

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

 Sepals subequal, free, or more or 1 jituria^ with the petals in an erect 

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

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

 . base often deourrent on the ovary ; stigma anticous, broad, rostelluni 

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

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

 tropical. 



1. S> australis, Lindl. in Sot. Beg. t. 823 ; Oen. & Sp. Orchid. 464 ; 

 Joinrn. Limn. 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. Sf Oils. Bomb. M. 270; Wight Jet. 1724 {middle and right-hand 

 figs.). S. longispicata, A. Rich, in Arm. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, xv. 78. S. flexuosa, 

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

 t. 30. 8.a.iaas-n.a., SungeRnum. SI. Chin. 6S. S. -aoYse Ze]a,niicaB,Sook.M. 

 New Zeald. i. 243. ISTeottia australis, Sr. Srodr. 319; Son Srodr. 27. 

 K". crispata, Slume Sijdr. 406. IT. flexuosa & parviflora, Smith in Bees 

 Cyclop. N. sinensis, Sers. Syn. ii. 511. N. amoena, Bieh. Fl. Taur. 

 Cauo. iii. 606. Gyrostaohys australis. Blame Fl. Jav. 107, t. 37, 38. — 

 Spiranthes, Griff. Notul. iii. 384 ; Ic. Slant. Asiat. t. 348. 



Throughout India from the Pahjab and W. Tibet to Upper Assam, and south- 

 wards to Ceylon and GHiTTAOONa ; ascending to 7500 ft. in the Sikkim Himalaya, 

 and 7000 ft. in the Nilghiris.— Distbib. Affghanistan, 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 3-6. in., twisted, glandular-pubescent ; 

 flowers secund, close-set ; perianth ^L-l in. long, horizontal, reddish or white '; 

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

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

 the same areas. 



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



