THE FLORA OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. 571 



jolia, L. tenvifolia, Cottonia macrostachya, Rhynchostylis retusa, 

 jErides maculosirm, A. crispum, A. radicoswm, A. odoratvm, Vanda 

 parvijlora, V. roxburghii, Saccolabivm maculatum. 



Of saprophytic plants, which grow upon decaying organic matter 

 and absorb the products of decay, only two species are known to me 

 belonging to the Order Burmanniacece : Burmannia coelestis and 

 Bu rmannia p uss ilia. 



The class of insectivorous plants which obtain more or less nourish- 

 ment from the dead bodies of small animals captured by means of a 

 special apparatus, has also a few representatives in the Bombay Flora. 

 Drosera burmanni and I). indica have glandular hairs secretin o- 

 a sticky fluid to which insects, mistaking it for honey, adhere. The 

 greater part of the animal substance is dissolved by means of a 

 digestive fluid secreted by the plant. To the other group, the so- 

 called " eel-trap " plants, which are furnished with bladder-like 

 appendages for the capture and digestion of small insects, the follow- 

 ing species belong : Utricularia stellar is, U. flexuosa, U. exoleta, 

 U. albo-eoeridea, U. arcuata, U. affinis, U. ccerulea, U. reticulata, U. 

 nivea, U. striatula. 



These are a few statistical notes which are intended to convey a 

 more distinct idea of the Flora of the Bombay Presidency than the 

 mere enumeration and description of the different plants are apt to 

 give. The completion of Cooke's Flora and further discoveries of 

 new species will slightly modify the numbers as given above, but 

 they will not change the main features which they express. 



