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' ■ 78. I. eiongrata, Am. in Hool\ Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 324; tall, stout, 

 glabrous, simple or brancbed, leaves stout-petioled elliptic acuminate 

 serrate thick, peduncles far exceeding the leaves very stout, racemes lax, 

 pedicels horizontal, sepals rather large ovate, standard small, lateral lobes 

 of wings small, terminal large, lip small, spur long very slender, Thwaiks 

 Emivi, 67 ; H.f. & T. inJoarn Linn. tSoc. iv. 150. 





Adam's Peak in Ceylon, alt. 3-4000 ft. i ■ <1 



Apparently about 3 it. high; stem woody below, straight or flexuons and scamcl 



above. Leaves 2-3 in. ; serratures ghind-tipped. Peduncle v^ry lax ; raceme 4-10 in., 



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79. I. cornlgrera, Am. in Cmip. Bot. Mag. i. 323; quite glabrous, 

 stem simple rather stout, leaves (rarely opposite) petioled elliptic-lanceolate 

 acute or acuminate crenate, peduncles subterminal slender erect, racemwr 

 short lax, pedicels capillary, sepals small ovate, standard oblong acuminate, 

 lateral wing-lobes minute,*^ terminal subquadrate with a broad claw, spu ^ 

 long or short rather stout circinate at the tip. Thwaites Lnum. o/, 

 //./. d: T. in Jom^. Linn. iSoc. iv. 150. 





Wanner parts of Cevlox, in damp woods. ' ' ' t.X 



Stem 6-24 in , stout or slender, usually the former, often naked below and very ica j 

 above. Leaves very variable, 3-6 in., som.etimcs variegated with white along ^"^ "^ * 

 rib, rarely seirate, crcnaturea ciliate ; petiole \-l iu. Peduncles ^"^^^^^ }^^f \ x^ 

 hhorter thin the leaves; raceme 1-2 in.; bracts small, ovate, acute; P^^^^^ V^j.d 

 lu)rizoutal. llmers I in. long, yellow, variegated with green or pale rose; stan < 

 concave, orbicular when spread out ; terminal lobe of wings with concavQ ^locs c ^^ 

 broad oblique notched apex; spur very variable, sometimes inflated ^^t'^J^' , • -^^ _ 

 J in., ellipsoid, turgid, beaked, glabrous. Seeds few, orbicular, compressed, shining. 

 The shining smooth compressed seeds ally this to /. Klcimi, &c. 



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80. I. Amottii, Thwaites Envm. 67 ; quite glabrous, stem sirnple 

 rather slender, leaves petioled elliptic-lanceolate acuminate cien^^^ 

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Very sm.ilar to I. cornujcra, Liit more slender, racemes bliorter "r Ao^f™ f"' j ter- 

 unibelled, red-purple, tinged yellow in the centre, and with very differently s"' 1 ^^ j^ 

 nmal wmg lobes wliieh are notched at the apex on one side.— The base ol me 

 this and i!s allies seems to form a perennial tuber. 



81. I. phoenicea, Bedd. in Madr. Journ. iii- 175: ^<^- f'l'^fJjd 

 p. 30, 1. 148; suffiuticose, erect, glubrous, leaves petioled lanceolate, n»^. ^^g 

 at both ends serrate, peduncles axillary as long as the leaves racemose, ^ ,^_ 

 cordate, raceme few-flowered, sepals ovate, standard ^road ovaie, ^^^.^^^j 

 small, lateral lobe cordate overlapping the much larger oblong j. 

 ou^, lip with spur triimpet-shaped incurved. ' : : .^ :X.;^''^i^« 



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>^ , Apparently a slender sparingly branched herb, quite glabrous. -^-^^^^* ^./. . axil*^^^>'' 

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