336 
orchide-Ze. (S. Moore.) 
[. Reristylus . 
5. P. ? gramineus, /S'. Moore. Very like P. spiralis , but the leaves 
are scattered, the flowers somewhat larger in. diam.) and arranged 
in a short dense spike and the spur is linear, obtuse, arched forwards 
and about as long as the labellum. Satyrium gramineum. Thouars, 
Orch. Afr. t. 6. Platanthera ? graminea, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 292. 
Habenaria graminea, Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 690 ; Bojer, Hort. Maur . 
310. 
Mauritius, banks of Moka river and at Quartier Militaire, JBojer. Also 
Madagascar. I have seen no specimen. 
6. P. flexuosus, S. Moore. Tubers fascicled, attenuated down- 
wards. Leaves twin, radical, equal or unequal, lanceolate, nearly 1J in. 
long, i in. broad. Scape wiry, ascending, about f foot high, with about 
two sheathing scales ; flowers about % in. diam., few together, col- 
lected at the top of the scape; bracts lanceolate, £ in. in length. 
Upper sepal ovate-oblong, obtuse. T x ¥ in. long. Lateral sepals and 
petals about the same length, oblong. Labellum 3-lobed ; lobes oblong, 
obtuse, the lateral a little the smaller ; spur obtuse, in. long. Grym- 
nadenia flexuosa, Rich. Orch. Maur. 27 ; Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 278 
(Gymnadenia P). Satyrium flexuosum, Thouars, Orch. Afr. t. 7. 
Mauritius, at Moka and Quartier Militaire, Bojer . Also Bourbon. I have 
seen no specimen from Mauritius. 
5. CYNOKCHIS, Thouars. 
Sepals and petals connivent, forming a hood over the column, the 
petals usually narrower than the sepals. Labellum patent, adnate to 
the lower part of the column, much longer than the other perianth- 
segments, lobed, usually with a long, slender, almost straight spur. 
Column short, straight ; cells of the anther at the top or hinder part 
of the column, going off into two long upward- and forward- reaching 
arms; pollen masses oblong or pyriform ; caudicles elongate ; glands 
naked, spheroidal ; rostellum fleshy, projecting upwards between the 
arms of the anther ; stigma of two broad foliaceous lobes, one on the 
outer side of each arm of the anther. — Terrestrial herbs with tuberous 
roots and radical leaves. Flowers small or rather large, usually in 
erect racemes or spikes. Distrib. The genus consists of a few species 
endemic ip. the Mascarene Archipelago. 
Sepals and petals nearly % in. long. Labellum 4-lobed, 
nearly 1 in. long ; spur elongate. Stigmatic lobes thin 
and glabrous, placed below the arms of the anther . 1 . C. purpurascens. 
Sepals and petals i in. long. Labellum 4-lobed, less than 
a in. in length; spur elongate. Stigmatic lobes fleshy 
and warted, ascending above the base of the arms 
of the anther 2. C. fastigiata. 
Sepals and petals about i in. long. Labellum 3-lobed, 
about ^ in. long ; spur short, clavate 3. C. Boryaxa. 
