Oberonta.] OvchidecB* 137 



shortly produced and flattened above it ; spike 2-3 in., stout, 

 curved ; bracts as long as the fl., lanceolate, acuminate, serru- 

 late; fl. very minute, about gV i"- broad, in obscurely whorled 

 fascicles, very shortly pedicelled ; sep. triangular-ovate, acute ; 

 pet. linear-oblong, obtuse, quite entire; lip shorter than the 

 Sep., much broader than long, subreniform, with large orbicular 

 side lobes and a short broad small mid lobe, margins quite 

 entire; fr. subsessile, about y\f in,, turgidly ellipsoid. 



Moist region at about 3-4000 ft. ; rare. Warriagala, Hantane, abundant. 

 First collected by Champion. Fl. November, December. 

 Endemic. 



2. O. recurva, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1839. Misc. No. 8. 

 O. Gardneriajta, Thw. Enum. 296(1861). C. P. 593. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 680. Hook. Ic. Pi. t. 1784 A. 



Stem very short; 1. i-2| by |-| in., ensiform, subacute or 

 obtuse, nearly straight; ped. short, terete, adnate below to a 

 small upper leaf, clothed with ovate acuminate appressed 

 bracts ; spike 2-3 in., very slender, decurved, dense-fld. ; bracts 

 as long as the ovary or shorter, margins subcrenulate; fl. 

 about yj in. broad, rather long-pedicelled, in obscurely whorled 

 fascicles ; sep. broadly ovate, obtuse, reflexed ; pet. obovate- 

 oblong, obtuse, irregularly crenate; lip twice as long as the sep., 

 3-lobed, margins crenate or erose, side lobes large, orbicular, 

 mid lobe broadly obcordate, 2-lobulate; fr. ^., in., pedicel very 

 slender, as long as the fr. 



Moist region ; very rare. Ambagamuwa (Gardner) ; Maturata 

 (Thwaites). Fl. Feb., August; reddish-pink. 



Also S. Indian Mts. 



In Fl. B. Ind. this is placed among indeterminable species, owing to 

 the absence of specimens at Kew, and the insufficiency of the description 

 (in Enum. PI. Zeyl.) to determine its position. An excellent drawing and 

 good specimens 'are in the Peradeniya Herb., and prove it to be in no 

 way different from the Concan O. recurva, which has been also described 

 by Lindley as O. setifera (Fol. Orchid. Oberon. 3), owing to an error in 

 regard to the shape of the pet. 



3. O. Thwaitesll, Hk.f. in Fl. B. Ind. v. 678 (li , 

 O. veriicillata, yslx. pubesce?ts, Lindl. Fol. Orch. Ober. 3; Thw. Enum. 

 296. C. P. 2572. 

 Fl. B. Ind. v. 678. 



Stem very short or o ; 1. 3-4 by | in., ensiform, straight, 

 subacute; ped. 1-2 in., stout, terete, adnate to upper l; spike 

 6-10 in., suberect or slightly curved ; bracts ovate, obtuse, 

 fimbriate ; fl. minute, sessile, in distinctly whorled fascicles ; 

 ov. very short ; sep. orbicular-ovate, acute ; pet. broadly oblong, 

 obtuse, erose ; lip longer than the sep., obcuneately obcordate, 

 side lobes obscure, terminal, 2-lobulate, lobules rounded with 



