1 38 OrchideCB. \pberonia. 



a broad obtuse sinus, margins quite entire ; fr. very small, 

 sessile or very shortly pedicelled, subglobose. 



Dry or intermediate region ; rare. Puttalam ; near Kurunegala. Fl. 

 July, August; yellow. 



Endemic. 



Fl. B. Ind. quotes for this C. P. 2516, which is of an old (afterwards can- 

 celled) numbering. The C. P. numbers in Herb. Kew and Herb. Lindley 

 do not tally with those of the Peradeniya Herb. Both the former Herbs, 

 are very deficient in species and specimens of the Ceylon Oberonias. 



4. O. long-lbracteata, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 15 (1830). 

 Lindl. Fol. Orch. Ober. 2. Thw. Enum. 296. C. P. 543. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 678. 



Stem 1-6 in., flexuous, flattened above ; 1. 2-3 by \-\ in., 

 nearly straight, linear or linear-oblong, acute; ped. adnate to 

 the upper leaf, very slender ; spike sharply decurved, 1-2 in. 

 long, slender; bracts \ in. and upwards, subulate, quite entire, 

 much longer than the sessile fl., which are about 2V i"- broad, 

 and whorled ; sep. broadly ovate, obtuse, petals broadly 

 oblong, quite entire, tip rounded ; lip hardly longer than the 

 Sep., broadly 3-lobed, side lobes small, orbicular, mid lobe 

 large, orbicular, retuse or obscurely 2-lobed ; fr. ^V i'l- lorig- 

 pyriform, pedicelled, strongly ribbed. 



Montane zone 3-6000 ft.; rather rare. Hantane ; Hewaheta; Hak- 

 gala. October-March; pale red, lip darker red. 

 Endemic. 



5. O. zeylanlca, Hk.f. in Ic. Plant, xviii. t. 1782 (li 

 O. Brtawniana, Trim. Syst. Cat. 87 (non Wight). C. P. 3869. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 680. Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1782, f. A. 



Stem very short ; 1. few, 4-7 by A— | in., linear-ensiform 

 or loriform, obtuse, nearly straight; ped. 3-4 in., very stout, 

 hardly compressed, with a small adnate leaf reaching to 

 about the middle ; spike 3 in., very stout, straight, curved or 

 decurved, dense- fld. ; bracts ovate, acuminate, sub-entire ; 

 fl. subsessile, in dense fascicles, about yV i"- broad ; sep. 

 triangular-ovate; pet. linear; lip longer than the sep., 

 quadrate, obscurely lobed towards the angles, margins quite 

 entire; fr. sessile, broadly ellipsoid, | in. long. 



Montane zone 4-6000 ft.; rare. East Matale (Beckett); Hakgala. 

 Fl. December, January. 

 Endemic. 



6. O. tenuis, IJndL Fol. Orchid., Ober. 3 (1859). 

 Thw. Enum. 296. C. P. 2654. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 682. Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1779, f. B. 



Whole plant 2-3 in. high; 1. few, 1-3 by \-l in., oblong 

 or cnsiform, acute ; ped. very short, slender, bractcatc to the 

 base, bracts subulate or setaceous, hyaline, quite entire, longer 

 than the very minute (^V '"•) pedicelled 11.; raceme 2-5 in.. 



