895. (EGINETIA INDICA. (Roxb.) scape nearly simple, 
elongated, naked, one flowered : limb of the corolla shortly 
D clift. 
Jungles near Paulghaut, among decaying vegetation, 
very abuudant : flowering in June and July. 
On comparing my figure with those of Rheede and 
Roxburgh 1 cannot help thinking that, in quoting Rheede’s 
figure as a syncnym for his, Roxburgh has fallen into 
error and that Kheede's plant is identical with mine but: 
different from Roxburgh’s, I must however leave them as 
find them for the present. 
:896. BisBLLa ALBA. (Linn.) stem twining perennial : 
leaves ovate undulated : spikes peduncled simple. Spreng, 
۰ Syst. Veg. p. 95. 
This is a common plant oceurring in every part of the 
country: the succulent leaves are dressed and eat like 
spinage. 
the main spriug ofa watch. 
897. EUPHORBIA ANTIQUORUM: (Linn.) stems jointed 
erect ramous, 3-4 or more angled angles furnished with 
numerous protuberances (floral eyes or buds) each armed 
with two short spreading stipulary spines : joints straight: 
peduncles solitary or in pairs, usually 3 flowered, a little 
above the axles of the stipules. 
Common all over India :: a very polymorpheus plant. 
No character can be derived from the number of angles. 
that being most variable. It is however quite distinet 
from the following and 
straight not twisted stems and the peduncles being few, 
one or two, from each protúberance or bud; while in the. 
ether they are numerous, 
898. EupPHorBIA TORTILES. (Rottler.) stems erect; 
ramous, jointed, joints spirally twisted, angular; angles- 
furnished with armed protuberances ; flowers numerous. 
fascicled on the angles : peduncles 3 flowered. 
I suspect when this family shall have been more closely- 
studied the best specifie as well as sectional characters. 
‚will be derived from the parts enclosed within the cup of 
the involucrum, the appendages of the flowers, that is, 
viewing each stamen and ovary as a distinct flower 
These parts, as shown in this and the preceding plate, are 
sufficiently distinct in form to encourage further investi- 
gation in that direction. 
899. « 
ovate cordate : spikes central, upper segments of the iuner 
border of the perianth, corolla, oval emargiuate. 
This I have only seen wild on the Malabar coast, the 
figure was taken from a plant I. found' in Travancore near. 
Trevandrum. 
900. Remusarıa vivierra. (Shott.) in No. 798, I gave. 
from Roxburgh a figure of the vivipuous form (see Arum. 
viviparum) of this species. I here give the much rarer 
one, in which it presents the normal form of the genus. 
The drawing was prepared from specimens gathered at 
Courtallum along with the other, this being exceedingly 
rare, while the other was most abundant. 
901. Microsryzis versicoLor. (Lind.) stem leafy :: 
leaves cordate or ovate oblong,abruptly petioled, undulated : 
plaited ; lip transverse, dentated on the margin, cucullate, 
slightly overlapping at the base : column bicornate at the 
apex sepals: and petals secund. Lind. genera and species, 
ES 
: Liparis densiflora? Richard Ann. des scianees v. 15. 
Frequent on the 
tions in grassy pastures, - : i | s 
The د ممه‎ here figured was gathered on the Pulney 
mountains but is quite identical with theNeilgherry plant. | 
The most curious part of the structure of this. 
plant is the seed the embryo of which is rolled up like. 
easily distinguished by the: 
Kampreria GALANGA. (Linn.) leaves round 
Neilgherries and other elevated sta 
902. MicRosTYris ሺ88፳5፤፲. (Lind.) stem leafy : leaves 
oblong lanceolate plaited : lip truncated dentate, largely 
overlapping at the base. Lind. gen. and species, p. 21. 
Pulney mountains among pasture— August 1836. 
This species has long rested on Rheede's figure, and 
Dr. Lindley in his recent work “ Genera and Species of 
Orchideous plants" remarks * I do not think there are 
any materials in this country sufficient for determining 
exactly what the Malaxis Rheedii of Swartz is or rather 
the Basaala Poulou Maravara.of the Hortus Malabaricus 
upon which that species is founded." Under the convic- 
tion that this is actually Rheede's plant I pubiish this 
figure though less perfect in its details than 1 could wish 
partly owing to my indifferent acquaintance with the tribe 
whenit was executed, and partly from the Artists want 
of practice at that time in representing Orchideæ. 
903. Lerarıs oLivacea. (Lindley.) leaves binate or 
solitary, roundish cordate or oblong, acuminated, plicate, 
shorter than the erect many flowered raceme : scape te- 
rate at the base : lip obovate retuse with a mucro, bituber- 
culate at the base : sepals obtuse, lateral ones resting on 
the lip. Lind. l. c. p. 26. 
Pulney mountains, on rocky clifts covered with herbage. 
I have some doubts as to this being Lindley's plant from 
which it differs in some particulars. There are three in 
place of one or two leaves and the lip is emarginate re- 
tuse in place of mucronate, besides which there may be: 
other distinctions not marked, 
904. Liparis ATROPURPUREA. (Lind.) leaves two or 
three, roundish, acuminated, petiolated, plaited, obliquely 
cuculate at the base, about as long as the erect, few flower- 
ed raceme : labellum oblong, obtuse, recurved, crenulate*: 
lateral sepals oblong lanceolate oblique : petals long fili- 
form. Lind. l. c. p. 28. 
Pulney mountains among rocky clifts sparingly co» 
vered with pasture—also from Ceylon. 
Flowers purple, large in proportion to the size of the 
plant. å 
905. Lıparıs WarxEnra. (Graham Bot. Mag.) leaves 
two or three, roundish ovate, acute, petioled, plicate, ob- 
lique at the base, cuculare, shorter than the erect, many 
flowered, raceme ` peduncles angled : lip roundish, reflex- 
ed, crenulated : sepals spreading oblong, margins revolute, 
the germen and filiform petals equal. 
Graham Bot. Mag: No. 3770.. 
Tam uncertain whence I obtained the specimen here 
figured but believe it was at Courtallum in 1835. It is 
much larger than the one figured by Dr. Graham, but is I 
think unquestionably the same plant. 
906. Liparis LoNGIPEs. (Lind.) pseudo bulbs long, 
terete, two leaved: leaves ensiform lanceolate : raceme 
straight many flowered; scape ancipitous: lip ovate acute, 
without tubercles, length of the column: sepals ovate : 
petals linear. Lind. I. c. p. 30. 
Courtallum flowering in July and August. I have also 
specimens from Ceylon. My specimens are all much 
smaller than Dr. Wallich’s Nepaul one figured in the 
Plant. As. Rareores. 
907. PHOLIDOTA IMBRICATA. (Lindley) pseudo bulbs 
ovate oblong obtuse, somewbat angled : leaves solitary, ob- 
long lanceolate, plicate, acute : spikes the length of the 
leaves, pendulous و‎ bracteas membranaceous, concave, im- 
brecated : lateral sepals ovate carinate: lip subglobose 
cuculate, lateral lobes small, erect, intermediate une two 
lobed cordate. Lind. L c. p. 36. 
Courtallum—I have also frequently met with it in other 
stations also in Ceylon. e 
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