Out of this very variable plant M, Richard has 

 constituted two species, both of which are, I believe, 



sent one (1726), are too short, they having generally 

 a tendency to lengthen as they ascend. The speci- 



included in this plate, but which, however distinct in mens vary from 2 to 7 or 8 inches in height. 



the case of single specimens of extreme forms, are 

 still unquestionably but one species. Lindley at one 

 time made a third but which he afterwards reduced, 

 viz., S. Wightiana. The three divisions of the plate 

 contain 1st, (left figure) 5*. Wightianay Lind., 2d, S. 

 longi spicata^ Rich, J and 3d, *S. aensa? (Rich.) or per- 

 haps the 1st and 3d may both go to form his densa. 

 Richard adds a third species which [ have not yet 

 seen, viz. S. Australis, with purple flowers. Perhaps 

 there is some mistake here, as it was carefully look- 

 ed for this season, but in vain, but even supposing 

 such to be found it is not by any means clear that 

 it is a distinct species as this one varies in the colour 

 of its flowers. 



1724-615. ZuxipTE BRACTEATA (R. W.), crcct, leaves 

 long, narrow linear, slightly sheathing at the base, 



membranous : spike cylindrical, compact, many-flow- 

 ered: bracts broad naviculate at the base, tapering 

 to a long acumen, the lower ones often twice or 

 thrice the length of the flower, with a conspicuous 

 costa: posterior sepals and petals galiate, somewhat 

 saccate; anterior sepals free: lip fleshy, claw long 

 without callosities, lamina of 2 oblong, obtuse, spread- 



1727. CHEIROSTTIilS FIiABELIiATA (R. W. Mono- 



chUis Jlabellatum^ R, W. in Icon.), leaves ovate, 3- 

 nerved, acute, reticulately veined : scape pilose, few- 

 flowered on the apex ; lip orbicular, limb spreading, 

 deeply 2-cleft, lobes digitately 4-5-cleft, claw with 

 two callosities at the base: column furnished in 

 front with four arm-like processes. Flowers white, 

 leaves brown, tinged with pale red, and reticulated 

 with darker coloured veins. 



Kartairy Falls, Neilgherries, among decaying leaves 

 in the wood at the bottom of the Falls, flowering 

 in February. It has since been found by the Rev. 

 Edmund Johnson, flowering in November, near 

 Coonoor. 



1 inadvertently overlooked the union of the sepals 

 when originally naming this plant and referred it 

 to the neighbouring genus MonochiluSy an oversight 

 which I must beg the favour of the reader to cor- 

 rect. The lip of this species differs a little from 

 the character of the genus but not enough to entitle 

 it to a new generic denomination. 



The pollen which the draftsman has represented 



ing lobes. Colour unknown, but apparently white. 

 Syndibad, Stocks. Flowering February. 



I at first supposed this Z. sulcata, but the form flowers on each scape is from 4 to 8; petals pure 

 of the lip and want of callosities on the claw are white, the ovary green. 



as cleft, solid pollinia, is granular. The lip in aesti- 

 vation is curiously rolled inwards, and is inclosed 

 within the tube of the sepals. The number of 



adverse to that supposition. My specimens vary 

 from 3 to 10 inches in height. The spike is scarce- 

 ly represented dense enough. 



1725. 



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narrow, linear, acute, about twice the length of the 

 internodes, some of the lower ones slightly sheath- 

 ing : spike short, compact : bracts membranous, 

 longer than the flowers, linear acute, posterior sepal 

 and petals connate, galiate, convex at the base: lip 

 fleshy, limb sub-orbicular, cuspidate, claw without 

 callosities. 



Mysore, Jerdon. Flowering December and January. 



The plant is represented too large and stout and 



the upper leaves too large. In habit it approaches 



Z, sulcata and may be a variety of that plant but 



I think not. 



1726. ZuxmE robusta (R. W.), erect, leafy, 

 leaves broad at the base, stem-clasping or slightly 

 sheathing, approximated, 3-nerved, slightly coriace- 

 ous, acute: spike about half the length of the plant, 

 bracks broad, foliaceous, longer, than the flowers, or 

 the upper ones about equaling them: posterior sepal 

 and lanceolate petals connate, galiate ; anterior sepals 

 free: lip fleshy, limb orbicular, claw dilated, some- 

 what lob ed at the base: capsule short, thick, and 

 ventricose. 



Mysore, Jerdon. January. 



The respective habits of these two species have 

 not been well preserved in the drawings ; noQiing 

 can be more evidently distinct than the aspect of 

 the plants themselves, though so much alike in the 

 figures. 



The former slender and short leaved, the latter 

 thick and stout in proportion to its size. This has 

 partly happened owing to the tallest, not the most 



characteristic specimens, of each having been select- 

 ed for representation. The upper leaves of the pre- somewhat pubescent, ovate, acute, the posterior one 



1728. MoNocHiLus AFFiNE (Lind), stem pilose, 

 leaves ovate, petioled, nerved : scape furnished with 

 some sheathing scales: spike secund, few-flowered, 

 bracts roundish, cucuUate, acuminate, membranace- 

 ous, as long as the pubescent ovary: sepals ovate, 

 acute, petals rounded at the apex: lobes of the lip 

 oblong, coarsely crenate, with two involute, subulate 

 callosities. Flowers white. 



Courtallum, in dense woods, flowering August and 

 September. It was part of the specimens collected 

 when this drawing was made to which Lindley 

 refers and any discrepancies that may be remarked 

 between the character and the figure is attributable 



to the one being taken from recent the other firom 

 dried specimens. 



1729. GooDTERA PROCERA (Hooker), caulescent, 

 glabrous, leaves lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than 

 the scape : spike long, dense, cylindrical : bracts 

 ovate, acuminate, longer than the ovary: flowers 

 sub-globose: sepals and petals roundish, convex, ob- 

 tuse: lip bellied, the apex with a callous point, hairy 

 within, the upper angles of the column acuminate. 

 Flowers white, anther red. 



Burlear, Eastern slopes of the Neilgherries, on the 



banks of a stream, flowering July and August I 

 have found it at different seasons. It is a widely 

 diffused plant I have gathered it on the Neilgher- 

 ries, Courtallam, Malabar and Ceylon, and have 

 specimens from other places. 



1730. GooDTERA ovALiFOLiA (R. W.), roots re- 

 pent, leaves ovate acuminate or oftener a, nearly, 

 perfect oval, with a short point; petiol about half 

 the length of the limb, dilated, sheathing at the base : 



spikes long, slender, thinish (subrara), pubescent: 

 lower bracts as long as the ovaries acute, sepal? 



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