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Leschenaullii is probably a more robust, smaller leaved and flowered state 

 of this plant. Thwaites {Enurn. p. 65), who unites bipartita, Am., with 

 cuspidata, remarks that the anterior lobe of the petal varies a good deal. 

 I have a specimen marked I. cuspidata, W.& A., by Gardner, and gathered 

 by himself on the Nilgherries, in which the capsule is f'- long, and the 

 leaves, almost all alternate, have long soft spines at the base and on the 

 petiole. 



I have no doubt of this being Linnseus's I. latifolia, having examined 

 the plant so named in the Linnean Herbarium ; it consists of only the 

 top of the stem, with the upper alternate leaves and one very large 

 flower, with a curved spur that is forked at the tip for a long way 

 up. There is no authority for the specimen in Linnajus's Herbarium, 

 ])ut I. bifida is written on the paper; so this is probably the original 

 I. bifida, Thunb., described by Thunberg as having a bifid spur, and 

 erroneously supposed to have been a native of the Cape of Good Hope, 

 where it has never since been found. 



21. I. LUCID A {Heyne in Wall. Cat. 4738 !). Glabra, ramosa, foliis 

 (2-4") longe petiolatis membranaceis inferioribus alternis, vel aliis 

 oppositis aliis alternis lanceolatis ovato-lanceolatisve acuminatis cre- 

 natis basi setosis, pedicellis subsolitariis, sepalis parvis ovatis acumi- 

 natis, labello concavo calcare elongato gracili, vexillo obovato, alis bi- 

 lobis, lobis obovatis. — An. var. I. latifolia, L., floribus minoribus ? 



I. latifolia, Wt. ^ Am. Prodr. 138 ; Wall. Cat. 4737 ! non Linn. 

 Hah. Mont, tropicis Malabarise ! Heyne, Wight, Gardner. 

 Herba 1-2', caule basi crassiusculo. Petioli ^-V, graciles. Folia sub- 

 nitida, utrinque angustata, flaccida. Flores pro planta parvi, i-f " lati, 

 albi V. pallide rosei {Wight). Capsula \ unc. longa, elliptica, turgida, 

 utrinque attenuata, glabra v. pilosa. Semina sub 4, magna, oblonga, 

 compressa, opaca, grosse reticulata. 



Wight and Arnott remark that this diff'ers from /. Leschenaultii in the 

 densely pubescent capsules, but I find that to be a very inconstant cha- 

 racter. 



22. I. Leschenaultii {B.C. Prodr. i. 686; Wall. Cat. 4/39). Suf- 

 fruticosa, glaberrima, ramosissiraa, foliis 1-1| poUicaribus plerisque 

 oppositis petiolatis lanceolatis v, ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis serratis, 

 pedicellis solitariis v. binis, sepalis parvis ovato-subulatis, labello 

 saccato acuminato calcare elongato gracili curvo, vexillo late obovato 

 rostellato, ahs bilobis lobis obovatis. — W^i^r^; Sf Am. Prodr. 136. 



An var. I. latifolise, L.? ; Wight, p. 970 bis. 



Hab. Mont. Ceylonia, Leschenault (fid. D.C.) et Malabarise ! frequens, 

 Wight, Sfc. (fl. tot. ann.). 



Suff'rutcx 8-pedalis, ramosus, foliosus, cauUbus ramisque suboppositis 

 crassiusculis. Folia subcoriacea, petiolo i-^'' longo. Flores fere 1" 

 diametr., pallide rosei v. albi. Capsulce et semina /. latifolice simillima 

 sed minora. — Potius varietas /. latifolia, rigidior, densior, foliis mino- 

 ribus, brcvius petiolatis, magis serratis. 



