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1. Oberonia recurva, Lindley Fl. Br. Ind. V. 680; Dalz. and 

 Gibs, p. 260. 



Sometimes very minute and seldom more than 2 or 3 inches high, 

 including the inflorescence, leaves oblong, lanceolate acuminate green, 

 •peduncle short, bracts entire, flowers minute, yellowish red, lip minutely 

 gashed on the margin, lateral lobes distinct rounded mid lobe bifid sinus 

 usually narrow. 



Distribution. — Throughout the whole of the Ghats and Konkan. Flowers in 

 the dry season. 



2. Oberonia falconbrt, Hooh.f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 678. 



A slightly larger plant than the above but similar in appearance, 

 bracts slightly toothed, flowers yellowish, lip inversely heart-shaped, 

 oblong, margins entire, lateral lobes almost obsolete, midlobe with two 

 small, incurved, well separated divisions leaving a broad sinus. 



Distribution. — This plant may be plentiful in the Konkan, but it has only 

 been received from W. S. Millard, who obtained it from Kalyan in flower in 

 September. It is also recorded from the Tropical Himalaya, Kumaon, Dehra 

 Dun, Behar and Chutia Nagpur. 



3. Oberonia platycaulon, Wight. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 682. 



Leaves narrowly sword-shaped acute, 6 to 10 inches long, peduncle 

 broad flat joined to a leaf to the top, spike 3 to 5 inches long, straight 

 bracts broad obtuse, gashed on the margins, sheathing the sessile ovary 

 flowers I inch in diameter, petals narrow, lip broader than long, with 

 broad, rounded lateral lobes and a very short bifid or trifid terminal one. 



This species is unknown to me and the description has been taken from the 

 Flora of British India. 



Its distribution is said to be from the Konkan to the Nilgiris and Pulneys. 



Dalzell and Gibson, Bombay Flora, page 260, describe Oberonia Lindley ana, 

 Wight, as growing on trees on the Ghats. 1 heir description is not referred to in 

 the Flora of India, and I do not know the plant. There is still another large 

 species to be described. It is rare on the Kanara Ghats and my specimens, 

 notes and drawing were unfortunately lost when the Herbarium of the 

 College of Science was destroyed by fire some years ago. 



2. MICROSTYLIS. 



A terrestrial plant. Stem elongate, with 3 to 5, membranous, 

 ovate acute leaves with sheathing stalks. Floicers small, in terminal 

 racemes, sepals and petals spreading, lip flat, produced upwards into 

 pointed auricles, column very short, with short spreading arms 

 pollinia 4. 



