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668 base; upper part spreading and thickened; margins usually much crisped. Ovary glandular.—''Hook. f. Fl. Tasm.'' ii. 15; ''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 272; Benth. Fl. Austral.'' vi. 314. S. novæ-zealandiæ, ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.'' i. 243.

Terrestrial herbs, usually glabrous. Root of oblong or ovoid tubers. Leaf solitary, linear or lanceolate, often thick and fleshy but not terete; empty sheathing bracts 1 or 2 along the stem. Flowers few or many in a terminal raceme, sometimes reduced to one. Sepals and petals similar and equal or nearly so, spreading. Lip similar to the petals, quite free from the column at the base. Column short, erect, broadly 2-winged; the wings either produced behind the anther with a variously lobed or fringed or rarely entire margin, or with 2 prominent lateral lobes as long or longer than the anther; at the base the wings extend between the column and the lip and are united. Anther in front of the produced wing of the column or between its lateral lobes, erect, 2-celled; connective often produced; pollinia 2 in each cell, friable.