THE ORCHIDS OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. 565 



1. Microstyiis rheedii, Wight. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 690 ; Dalz. and 

 Gibs., p. 260. 



Stem 6 inches high, stout, leaves usually suffused with brown, 

 5 to 7 nerved, pleated, stalk up to 3 inches long, blade from 3 to 7 by 

 1 to 3 inches, base often unequal, raceme slender, bracts lanceolate, 

 deflexed, flowers fragrant greenish yellow or purple, lip kidney or fan- 

 shaped, finely toothed all round the margin. 



Distribution. — Common throughout the Ghats, more especially southward?. 

 Flowers appear from June to August. Birdwood remarks that this plant is 

 very like a Plantago. 



3. LIPARIS. 



Terrestrial or epiphytic. Leaves membranous, base sheathing, flowers 

 small, column long, pollinia 4. 



1. Liparis dalzellii Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind., V. 698. 



Stem 4 inches long, as thick as the thumb. Leaves 2 to 3, sessile 

 elliptic ovate acute. Raceme stout, bracts lanceolate, flowers •£ inch 

 in diameter, sepals 5 nerved, obtuse, lateral falcately oblong 

 dorsal large, linear oblong, Up broadly inversely cordate, fleshy, 

 dark purple, base bituberculate, column stout, incurved, wings rounded. 



Distribution. — South Konkan (Dahell) according to Sir J. D. Hooker, from 

 whom the description is taken. The plant is unknown to me and it is included 

 by Woodrow in his list with this citation only. 



2. Liparis (paradoxa, Reichb.f.) Fl. Br. Ind., V. 697. 

 Pseudobulb ovoid, 1^ inch long, invested with loose sheaths on the 



narrow neck. Leaves 2, leathery, sessile, ovate-lanceolate, acute, four 

 by two inches, multicostate. Raceme about 8 inches high, racMs 

 quadrangular, angles slightly winged, bracts linear lanceolate, ^ inch 

 long, strongly reflexed, flowers \ inch long, thinly scattered on 

 the upper half of the rachis, green with a yellow tinge, dorsal sepal 

 oblong lanceolate, margins strongly recurved, lateral subequal and 

 similar to dorsal, j/etals as long as sepals, linear, margins strongly 

 recurved, Up green obcordate, bituberculate at base and channelled on 

 the disk, margins slightly orenulate, column incurved with narrow 

 wings. 



Distribution. — Collected in flower on the Belgaum and North Kanara Ghats 

 in August, by Mr. T. J. Spooner, who kindly communicated living specimens 

 to me. Having no means of comparison I am at present quite uncertain as to 

 what name this plant should bear. 



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