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minate coarsely crenate upper sessile, stipules setose, peduncles 1-2, sepals 

 large ovate-cordate, standard orbicular spurred behind, terminal lobe of 

 wings very long pendulous, lip subcanipanulate, spur short spiral, capsule_ 

 long slender. , , ,::.: ^^'u^» 



.Temperate and subtropical woods of the Sikkim Himalaya, alt. 4-7000 ft. , ,-tv ..J 

 Stem 8-10 in., slender, sparingly branched. Leaves menibranons, 1-3 in., nan'owea 

 Into the slender cylindrical petiole, apiculate in the crenaturea. Peduncles sometimes 

 2 and connate at the base, ebracteate, very slender, shorter or longer than the leases. 

 :ers 1^ in. from the spnr to the tip of the apiculate stan.iard ; wings violet-purple, 

 the terminal lobe sometimes 1^ in. long, elliptic-oblong; lip deeply conoidal, intiated, 

 narrowed into the spiral spur, pale rose-coloured streaked with purple. Capsule I ^i^,y 

 Tfery slender.- Seeds small, globose, puberulous.— A lovely plant, closely allied to 

 /. arguta, but the flowers are almost invariably solitary, and it wants the cunoiw 

 united bracts. / ' ■ . * 



; 98. I. porrecta, Wall. Cat. 7275 ; slender, quite glabrous, stem simple, 

 creeping below, leaves petioled ovate or lanceolate acununate serrulate 

 2-glandular near the base, peduncles 2-3-flowered, bracts setaceous glana- 

 tipped, sepals ovate-lanceolate, standard orbicular spurred at the back, ter-. 

 niinal lobe of wings elongate pendulous, lip large conoid deep narruA\ea 

 into a rather long abruptly hooked spur. H. f. & T. in Jouni. Linn. 

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Khasia Mts., WaVifJi; in marshes at Kala Panee, alt. 5-6000 ft., /. D- S. <t T.T,^ 

 A^^m simple, 12-18 in, succulent. Leaves 14-24 in., membranous, many-nervea, 



petiole l-H in. Peduncle with the pedicels shorter than the leaves. Flowers ur^e, 

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99. I. scabrida, DC. Prodr. i. 687; glabrous or pubescent leaver, 

 ovate or lanceolate acuminate serrate, stipules of two large g^a"^^', j: 

 duncles short 2-6-flowered, bracts setaceous, sepals broad ovate-coraai , 

 standard very large orbiculaf spurred behind, wings smaller, liP-/°?^. yr 

 as long as the incurved spur. Wall. Cat. 4769 ; Wight Ic. t. :i23 ; ^/-^ V 

 in Joimi. Linn. Hoc. iv. 136. I. tricornis, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840, t. 9 i/ V 

 Bot. May. t. 4051. I. cristata and I. calycina, Wall, in Roxh. H- ^^*^-.^"' 

 tarey, u. 456 and 463. I. Haniiltoniana, Don Prodr. 204. , . \^^^^ 



. Shady woods of the temperate Himalaya, from Kunawar to Bhotan, »!*• ^:J^'gesfile 



fionietimes panicled, generaHy in several axils ; peduncle 1-2 in., pedicels «» ,* 

 standard cordate at tlie base, lateral lobe of wings short rounded, ternnnal mucu .^^^ 

 oblong. CapHuU 1-2 in., slender, straight, ribbed, glabrous or P"be™lous. « ^ 

 1-seriate, oblong, scarcely tubercled.-De Candolle describes the spur as ver^ 

 (longissimus), which is certainly not the case I have no Sikkim specimeii, uui ^ 

 a figure of the plant amongst Caihcart's drawings, which has 4 lateral sepals. 



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peduncles succulent 2-3-flowered, flowers large yellow, sepals Droau 

 cular-ovate, standard orbicular thick green with a dorsal spur, ^"?° | j^gr 

 large clawed S-lobed with an inflexed thickened auricle on 556^;^ 

 margin, lip funnel-shaped narrowed into a stout incurved spur. 



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