Spiranthes.'] oxlviii. orohide^. (J. D. Hooker.) 103 



imbricating, flowers in a dense cylindric spike. S. Wightiana, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 

 7378. S. densa, A. Mich, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, xv. 79 : S. australis, WiaM la. 

 t. 1724 [left-hand fig.).— m\g\m\ Mts. 



2. S. autumnalis, Bieh. Orchid. Europ. Ann. 67 ; glandular- pubes- 

 cent, root of elongate stout tubers, leaves in a tuft at the side of the flowering 

 stem OYate, bracts ovate-lanceolate acuminate exceeding the ovary, lip 

 oblong-panduriform glabrous, base 2-glandnlar. Lindl. Gen. & Sp. 

 Orchid. 469 ; in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 277 ; £oiss. Fl. Orient, v. 9(3 ; 

 Beichb. Fl. t. 4,7. 



Westeen Himaiata ; at Lohoo Ghat, Thomson- [¥\. May). — Distbib. Affghan- 

 istan, Caucasus to the Atlantic. 



Root of 2 fleshy fusiform or subcylindric tubers ^-IJ in. long. Leaves 1-1 J in., 

 on a very short lateral stem that flowers in the following year. Scape ' with the 

 rather stout raceme 4r-6 in. ; spike twisted ; flowers secund greenish white, variable 

 in size, usually larger than in S. australis. — This common European species has not 

 been recorded from any locality between the Caucasus and Afifghanistan. Boissier 

 errs in describing the tubers as napiform. In Europe it flowers in October to 

 December ; in India and Afighanistan in April and May. 



88. NBOTTXA, Urm. 



Terrestrial erect brown leafless herbs ; rootstock with fibres, stem 

 simple laxly sheathed. Flowers racemose. Sepals subequal, free, lanceo- 

 late, concave at length spreading, lateral falcate. Petals narrow. Lip pen- 

 dulous from the base of the column, larger than the sepals, 2-fid, base flat or 

 concave. OoZ'iMKm erect or incurved, subterete; stigma transverse ; anther 

 erect or inclined forwards, cells contiguous ; pollen in loosely connected 

 masses, pendulous from the gland of the rostellum. — Species 3, temperate 

 Europe and Asia. 



Neottia steateumatica, Br. Prodr. 319 (in note). In a note under Neottia 

 australis, Brown refers the Orchis strateumatica of Linnaeus (Plor. Zeylan. n. 319; 

 Sp. Plant. 1. i. 943) to Spiranthes, on the faith of a specimen in Hermann's 

 Herbarium ; but Linnaeus' character of " spur slender as long as the ovary " is 

 quite opposed to this determination. I do not know what it is. 



IT. listeroldes, Lindl. in Boyle III. 368 ; Oen. & 8p. Orchid. 458 ; 

 in Jowm. Lmn. Soc. i. 176. N. Lin'dleyana, Dene in Jacguem. Voy, Bot. 

 163, t. 163. 



Tempeeate Himalaya ; from Kashmir eastwards to Sikkim, alt. 5-10,000 ft. 

 in Kumaon, and 10-11,000 ft. in SikHm. ^ ^ „ , 



Stem with the raceme 8-14 in., high, stout or slender, stifl, flexuous ; sheaths 3-4, 

 lax. Raceme 6-12 in., lax-fld., laxly pubescent; bracts |-i in., sheathing, mem- 

 branous, as long as the erect pedicels ; floiversiin. long, red brown; sepals trun- 

 cate 1-nerved ; petals much narrower, margins convolute ; lip 2-3 times as long as 

 the sepals, linear- oblong, cleft into two ovate or linear-subacute parallel lobes from 

 a third of the way up, nearly flat with a dorsal ridge ; ovary pubescent. Qapsule 

 i in. long, ellipsoid, erect. 



89. IiZSTEIlA. Br. 



Terrestrial erect 2-leaved herbs, with fibrous roots from a short root- 

 stock. Xeaw* broad, subopposite. JS'foioer* rather small, racemed bepals 

 and petals subequal, free, spreading or reflexed. Lip pendulous from the 

 base of the column, usually longer than the sepals, narrow, entire or 2-fid. 



