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oblong, compressed; tesfa rugose. — The following varieties are distinguished as species 

 by Mr. Edgeworth ; — i '• 



. Var. 1. amphorata proper; stipular glands pedicelled, standard crested, wings un- 

 equally batchet-shaped, lip very obtuse, spur incun-ed, capsule subterete. I. ^^'f. 

 rala, Edgeworth, I.e. I. longicomu, Wall. Cat 4729, ^n part. I. unibrosa, JSoJ). tn 

 Linn.Soc. Jonrn. I. picta, Knoicles & Wescott Floral Cabinet, t. 128 {according P> 

 a specimen in Herh, Lindley). • \i 11 



Var. 2. umbrosa; stipular glands sessile obtuse, pedicels glandular, hp gratolij 

 narrowed into the incurved spur, capsule subtorulose. I. umbrosa. Edgew, in Ironi- 

 Linn. Sac. xx. 39. I. longicornu, var. a and S, nob. I.e. I. bicolor, Hoyle lU- loi, 

 t. 28. I. Rovlei, Klotzsch in Beise Pr. Wald. 121, t. 15 B. • ,-, j;' 



Var. 3. palkns ; stipular glands unequal ear-sbaped, pedicels thickened eglamuiiar, 

 'flowers smaller paler, lip gradually narrowed into a revolute spur. I. pallens, x-«i^e . 

 Z.c. 39. I. longicomu, var, pallens, Nob, Lc, 





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109. I. Ed^eworthii, Hook/.; tall, robust/branched, glabrous, leaves 

 large petioled elliptic acuminate acutely serrate, peduncles suote™^^ 

 fascicled, raceme short, interrupted, bracts large keeled persistent oiie 

 ' wLorled, flowers large yellow and red, sepals very large orbicular mia 

 crested, standard orbicular crested, lateral wing-lobes obliquely ^^^*J^^^°' 

 terminal oblong, lip funnel-shaped narrowed into an incurvea sp • 

 I. longicornu, var. y cristata, JVob. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv, 148. '^ ' 



Western Temperate Himalaya at Kundau and the Beas Valley in Kvh^f^^' 



This resembles very closely 7. Ucornnta in habit, stature, and foliage, ^^^^f^f^^^.^j.^ 

 are sharply Berrate, the serratures tipped with glandular bristles, the se"" " 

 lar^e, nearly J in. long, crested on the midrib, and the lip ^^ '^^^^■'^ y. ^-ff-^-- 'the 

 Without the callous green points of that species. From /. umbrosa it ^|°^^ i „ J 

 same points (except the last); The stipular glands are tumid ; the bracts »0|iJ;-- J ^^ 

 with long stiff glandular points; the flower 1 in. long from the tip o the stamv ^^^ 

 the spur; the sepals green, rest of the flower yellow streaked with rea, ex*, f ,^ 

 broad crested midrib of the standard, which is green. Capsule and seeas 

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110. I. mishmlensis, Hookf. ; quite glabrous, stem stout ^^^^^^^^ 

 leaves petioled elliptic-oblanceolate acuminate serrate, peduncies 

 axillary, flowers large white in broken whorls, bracts large wlioreuj-^ 

 sistent, sepals large broad ovate, standard orbicular obtusely spur ^ 

 the back, terminal wing-lobes elongate, lip funnel-shaped narroweu 

 short incurved spur. \ ;^. 



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A stout apparently succulent plant, 4 ft. high. Leaves 6 in., crowded ^^ ^iole 



ends of the branches, membranous, sometimes gland-tipped, nerves verv sieau . y^^^ 



1^-2 m. ; stipular glands or obsolete. Peduncles stout, shorter than the lea i^^^^^ 



ni., spreading, acuminate, concave, green; pedicels |-1 in. Flowers ^^ ' ^nlJf 



111. Z. radiata, 



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,.., Hookf.; tall, quite glabrous, much brancbed^„ncle3 

 long-petioled elliptic-ovate or lanceolate acuminate creiiaie, i j^grooJ 

 fascicled towards the ends of the branches erect, peclicels very^ „,^rp^ 



conical 



inoreorless whorled, bracts persistent, flowers suuiU X \ Vw cov^<^ 

 iepals small, standard orbicular, terminal, wing-lobe elongat^iK^^^^^ 



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