THE ORCHIDS OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. 



BY 

 G. A. GaMMIE, F.L.i^. 



Part VIII. (With Plate VIII.) 

 {Continued from page 8o4: of Volume XVIIT.) 



U). BRIDES. 



Epiphytes with two-rtiiiked, fleshy, strap-shaped leaves. Floioers 

 showy, pink or purple, in dense or loose racemes which are often 

 hranched in luxuriant examples, brads minute, sepals spreading, the 

 lateral adhering to the base or foot of the column, petals similar to 

 sepals, lip spurred, three-lobed, lateral lobes small, midlobe large, 

 column short, foot short, anther 2- celled, pollini a 2, globose, furrowed, 

 strap long or short, gland various. 



*' Lip horizontal. 



Stems long. Floioers fragrant, midlobe of lip ovate. 1. jErides 

 crisp um. 



Stems short. Flowers not fragrant, midlobe of Up oblong. 2. 

 iE rides maculosum. 



*'* Lip pendulous. 



Stems short. Leaves usually mottled. Midlobe of lip ovate, o. 

 brides radicosum. 



1. J^RiDES CEISPUM, Lhull. FL Br, Tnd. VI, p. 45 ; Cooke, Fl. 

 of Bombay, II, p, 700 \ Bah. and Gibs., p. 265; M. Lindleyana, 

 Wight. Dah. and Gibs., p. 265. 



Roots flattened, far spreading, clinging closely to the bark of trees 

 Stems stout, often attaining a length of 12 inches, the lower part 

 invested with the sheaths of decayed leaves. Leaves 4 to 8 inches 

 long, strap-shaped, unequally 2-lobed at the apex. Floioers X\ inches 

 in diameter, sweetly scented, in simple or branched racemes w'hich 

 are often a foot in length, pedimcle half the length of the inflores- 

 cence, stout, green ; pedicels robust, about 1 inch long, bracts small, 

 ovate acute, sepals white, tinted and streaked with pink, dorsal 

 obovate obtuse apiculate, f inch long, lateral obliquely ovate oblong- 

 acute, petals white, tinted and streaked with pink, a little narrower 

 and shorter than the lateral sepals, lip 1^ inch long, inflexed at the 

 base, lateral lobes short, rounded, standing erect on each side of the 



