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almost hemisphencal below. Capsule f-1 in., linear, cuspidate, torulose, glabrous. 

 c«ea« lew young obovoid acute at the liilum, opaque.— Most nearly allied to I. urtici- 

 jma, \\ aJL, differing in the acute small serratures of the leaves, Bhoit peduucles, 

 caaucous broad bracts, and the curious concave boat-like spurless lip. 



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-107 1. bicornuta, Wall in Roxh. Fl. Ind. Eel Carey, ii. 460 ; Cat. 4765 ; 

 "f^^, stout, quite glabrous, leaves petioled elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate 



caudate-acuminate, racemes subterminal interrupted, pedicels 



crenate 



m^\ ^ ^^^.^^^ narrow persistent, flowers rather large, sepals small, standard 

 brSd -'^^"^^ caudate, lip horned at the tip produced downwards into a 



short hooked or incurved. 



L longicornu, 



prbicuL 



>road conoid or oblong incurved sac, spur 

 r'/f^^^rnu, Wall Cat 4729 in pari, not of Flor, Ind. 

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j^.^entral and Western Temperate Himalaya ; Nipal, Wallich; Garwhal, Stracn. & 



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branou ' • i*^' n^nch-branched annual; stem stout, succulent. Leaves 3-6 in., mem- 

 <* la- i ' sometimes a few scattered hairs on the upper surface, crenate, brist'es 

 M in * ' P^^^'^'^ 1-3 in., often with prominent basal stipular glands. Peduncles 



I>romin' ^^ 1 * stout, erect ; racemes manj-flowered ; bracts whorled, ovate, with long 

 iUqI . ^*'*ndular tips; pedicels |-1 in., slender. Flowers ^-1 in. long from tip of 

 enj of tl *^,.^*'^^^^^^^ j hnds 2-horned bj the spur and projecting glandular Iicrbaceous 

 Wral 1 if ^^'it^h is large, broad, and remarkably incurved ; wings with small 



dric R 1 '^"^ narrow terminal ones. Capmle (according to Wallich) 14 in., cylin- 

 <»nlM) Tr '• ^^^'^'^^^' ^^^^^ 8-10, subcylindric.— Under WalHch^s 4729 {/. hnfft- 

 lam 7 ^^^f %^ ^"^ specimen of this, together with one of L sulcata, and another of 

 *°tl aVth^ -Vc ^*^'^'^^r of which does his character of the double-horned bud apply ; 

 C^taloo- ^ ® specimen accords with another called /. Ucormita, but without a 



^escrinl; ^^^^^^ in Wallich's Herbarium, collected in Nipal in 1821, and with his 

 •pecimen" 1'^ P^^^^^ ^" Roxburgh's Flora Indica, I retain the name here. The 

 ^Aer m ^" v\ -^^^^'^^^^'ni boaring the Catalogue name of /. bicornuta^ has the spur 

 ^^g^corn^"^' V *^^* ^^ ^' ampliorata, but it has not the broad sepals. The name 

 ^kichit ^ ^^ Herbaiium is inapplicable to any of the 3 plants in ; 



the sheet to 



•^iaown /^f*^^5^^^j ^'^i^d had best be suppressed ; and all the more because it is not 

 7... ^' f-ongicornu published in Roxburgh (which is De Candolle's, and his own 



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slender'' ^P^<*rata, Edaew, in Tram. Linn. Soc. xx. 39; erect, branched, 

 landuln^^ ^V^^st, glabrous, leaves petioled elliptic acuminate-crenate with 

 ^foad np ?"P^^^' racemes subterminal subumbellately interrupted, bracts 

 *^^'ar do ?i*^"*' flowers large, sepals small broadly cordate, standard orbi- 

 Wad ra 1 ^ keeled or crested, wings with short lobes, lip a krge deep 

 linear, ^^^ <^onical obtuse sac with a short abrupt incurved spur, capsule 



ThS^ J^'^P^r^te Himalaya, from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 5-8000 ft. 

 ^^istantU \ ^"^i^ge of this are quite tliose of 7. bicornuta, but the petioles arc more 

 ^^ tile leaf io ". ^^^ ^^ *^® ^^®®» ^^'^^^ ^'^^ glands either sessile or stipitate, the apex 

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^fienam p"^^s ^'^piculate, never having the strong callous green points which suggest 



^^'W wiU ^'^^''""^a for that plant. The flowers are, ' ' " ' ■— ' "' 



^atOarA^^fdveins; the Hn nl^Pn " - - - -"^' 



or 



|s not so produced into an entire linear tail, the raceme is often hardly 



interrupted, the sepals are constantly cordate, and the Up is usually of a 



It shape, being very large, stihcylludric and saccate, rarely conoidal, and 



" ''^''- ' ' ' ' the strong callous green points which suggest 



^ The flowers are. I believe, rose-coloured and 



a RDuV • -•.""- i vxic lip, often f in., is In one^specimen from Simla, drawn out 

 capsuW^^^"'"^^*^ at the tip. and with the spur considerably over an mch long. 

 le 18 erect, |-12 in linear, Scumfnate. not at all clavate." Seeds few, large, 



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