GOODYEEEiE.
acufe. Prirf, ™.IIoi- tliM tlie Bspal., obliinely oblanceolale, pale pink or white
t.w,r .pices. hooked. Lip adiate ly its bass, to the face of the ooh.mn, a„d ,vttl, two
eaU.; cW „neqaally fin.briale; terminal lobes linoai-oblong, bl„„,, spraadi.w aod recnivco.^
Sfur oomcal a. loag the lateral sepals, „¡Ih two large wartlike processes
.ns.de Append.,ges „o the tro.,t of the col.a.n la,go, parallel, eMending
irom tiie ovate llesliy rostellum io the spur. Stigmas two, small, elliptic Anther
ac,.nun.le; four, clavate, i„ two pairs, „„i,ed at their b.ses and both
at ached to a l»„ceol,.,e gland. LmdI. Gen. and Sp. Oroh. »99; Roylelll 3.8;
Blumo rior. Ja™ 41, t. W B, fig. 2; Hook. f. Fl. Br. lad, ri, 95; King &
lanthng m Ann. R, Bot, Gard. Oalo. viii, 293, t. 390; Oollelt. Fl. Bin,l. 484;
87 t 'sr ' Roxlurghu Wall. Tont. Fl. Nep.
Below Simla at aboat .5,000 feet, Madian, CclUtt; on the Chnr near Simla, Ro,l, •
Kedarkanta .„ Teh.i-Garhwal, Flower, during J„]y and Angust. It eztond^
eastwards to Nepal, S.kkim, Bhutan, Aasan,, Sylhet, Manip,rr and CUna.
TEIBE VL-OPHIiYDEA
AntUr-om, sessile on the column, antieons or (in the Indian species of S a i M
lateral free or cont.gnous, but always d,stinct, parallel or diverging often with tX
front the,r bases, each w.th a atamirrode on ita outer snrface; r k l tw raTely four
»na ly w.th nd alwaya with glands; naked' i enclosed'ir. I sale
Lip inferior ; spur single, rarely none.
Eostelium not p.orainont (eioopt in Sermlnmrn ¡ramanm).
L,p w,lli nsu.lly a l„„g .^„i ,
ilowers purple, pi„k or oooulon.Uy white; poUini.t gknds often
»dosed i. . .
Flowers gieen or jollowlsh-gro.n, r.roly while; .nthet-oeU, oilen
"th long tubos, pollinior gUnds naked
I«p with no spur or wUh a very siorl one; flower, green, rarely wMte;
anther-cells with long tubes, polliniar glands naked. (Usually
dimiuutire plants) ^^ Htrmii'
Eoslellum «r, prominent (se. also £«•»,/«,•.„ ¡,„,„„•,„„); leaf solitary, '
taaioal, broad; £owers purple or white, lip sparreJ 43 Hmmli,
L,p superior, spur, two
40. Orchis Linn.
Terrestrial erect leafy herbs with oblong or digitately lobed tnhers, or with flcshv
fibrous „ots. sheathing, not plicate. FW, n,ediu,n.si.ed, nsnally nink or
parple, .n .sp.kos or racemes; loral Irkot s,nall, or leaf-like and ezceeding the' flower
snbeqnal, the dorsal one conniying to form a hood with the pUal,, the lateral pair
spreading. P.Ca, lite the .epaU or smaller. Lip adnate to the'b.s of t ^ o nn^
spreadtng or pendulons, entire or S-lobed, rarely l-or 6-lohed, always spurred I Z - '
very short. Anincr-oau two, anticoas, parallel, conlignoas, without Inhes; p„ttiA
nsnally altached to c.nd.cles; two, distinct or anited, lying in a conrn,™ pouch
0, naked. Sam.uoia rnplose, attached to the outer surfaces of the anthcr cclls or to
the column by therr s,des. „nited into a transrerse band lying across the
column for its wh,de breadth, or distinct and at the margins of the column ias in
0. ««„»niii).-Sp.cies abont 80, in Europe, and in the te,operate parts of Asia and
N. Africa; also in N. America and in the llasoerene Islands.
Stem stent, learcs three or n,o,'o, lip entire or oboorely 3-Iob«d
Flowers large, purple Ul.o or oooasionally white, pol|i„i„ gl.nd, enolosed
in a ponob ^ ^ latiMia
Flowers m„ob smaller, pirk or oooasionally white, polliniar ghni free' ' "'"''
and exposed fnii
Stem slender, leaves one to three, lip distinotly Sdobed . .' .' s o ' cIhITJ'"*'^''^'
Stem slendsr, 1,-af usually solitaiy and near the base of the stem.
Stigmas united, lip a-Iobod, spur longer than tbe ^ Sirach "
Sligraas distinct, lip entire, spur shorter than the ovary 5" O .^«¿/"h/X'
Amn. Eoy. Boi'. Gaud., Calc., Vol. IX.