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Distrih'ithn. Throughout the heavy rainfall tracts of the Western 

 Ghats and Western Peninsula generally. It wanders further out into 

 the Deccan than any of its congeners and its habit oi' thickly covering 

 the branches of even low trees makes it a conspicuously beautiful 

 plant at its flowering period which begins with the tirst onset of the 

 south-west monsoon. 



3. ^KIDES RADicosuM, A. RkJi. Fl Br'. Ind. VI, p. 46 ; Cooke 

 FL of Bombay, II, p. 700 ; Saccolabium rubrum, W/g/it. Dalz, and 

 Gibs., p. 264. 



Stems short, stout, covered (as in the other species) with the 

 sheaths cf fallen leaves. Leaves narrowly strap-shajed, up to 10 

 inches long, often mottled with pur|de, apex unequally bi-Iobed. 

 Injlo^esience a short raceme or panicle, flowers § inch in diamefer, 

 rose coloured, dorsal sepal oblong acute, lateral larger oibicular 

 gibbous, jtr^ti/s similar to dorsal sepal, l/p pendulous, longer than the 

 sepals, basal jiart short, lateral loles ^mall. oblong : a d(-uble callus 

 on the disk at the mouth of the s[)ur, white lineolate with purple, 

 midlobe ovate, tip rounded, a longitudinal dark purple band in the 

 centre, margins white, spur stout, slightly incurved, obtuse, white. 



Flowers ajjpear in May and June. 



Disir/bhti.in. Tlroughout the heavy rainfall zone of the Western 

 Ghats and Peninsula. 



A ^ er\ w bii t ] 1; nt. sent U me by Mr. Spoorer from Dharwar, 

 had larger and more distinctly mottled leaves, a Iranched inflores- 

 cence a foot long and /lowers quite one inch in diameter. 



{To be continued.^ 



