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column, white, with irregular brown streaks, midlohe 1 inch long! ovate 

 oblong, rose-purple, three lobed, base pressed against the column and 

 bearing two large white blotches, mirgins crisped, strongly recurved, 

 except at the base, spvr short, thick, blunt, green, incurved. 



Flowers appear in May and June. 



Disirihvtinn. 'J hroughout the heavy rainfall zone of the Western 

 Ghats and Konkan extendino- .southwards to Travancore. 



This is in many ways the finest of the P>ombay orchids and is, per- 

 haps, the one most commonly met with in cultivation. In the .dry 

 climate of the Deccan it will thrive and flower for years on tree 

 trunks fudy exposed to the scorching sun and wind. 



Plate VJil shows a small plant in flower. 



2. .Brides maculosum, i>/m//. Ft. Br. Ind. Vf,p.45; Cooke, 

 FL of B imhay, II, p. 699 ; fkdz. and Gihs., p. 266. 



Stems short, stout, clothed below with the brown sheaths of fallen 

 leaves. Leaves 6 to 9 inches long, strap-shaped, channelled, apex 

 unequally Iwo-lobsd. Flowers about one inch in diameter, in 

 drooping simple or branched racemes ; sepals and petals spreading, 

 white, deeply suffused with rose-purple and with darker purple spots 

 and streaks lateral sepals about ^ inch long, obovate, dorsal nar- 

 rower, petals a I'ttle shorter and narrower than the lateral sepals, lip 

 three-lobed, h inch long, standing out at right angles to the sepals 

 and petals, spur short, greenish at the tip which is curved into a 

 hook, base of lip with a fleshy two-lobed, white callus ; from each 

 lobe of this a purple line runs downwards into the spur, lateral lobes 

 pure white, very short, rounded, midlohe large, oblong, rounded, 

 retuse, bright purple all over, the colour forming distinct lines at the 

 base, margins crenulate and crisped. 



The above is the common variety. There are at least two others 

 which difi'er as follows : ~ 



Var. h. Sepals and petals almost white with only a few scattered 

 purple dots, ground colour of lip white, irrorated and banded with 

 rose-purple. 



Var. c. Inflorescence usually branched, sepals and petals larger 

 and broader, white, deeply suffused with purple upwards, spots and 

 streaks few, midlohe of lip dark purple down the centre, the colour 

 fading towards the margins. 



Flowers appear in May and June. 



