1 70 OrchideCS. {AgrostophyUnvK 



Moist region at about 3000 ft.; rare. Hantane ; Punduloya (E. Green). 

 Fl. Jan. -March ; sep. and pet. pale olive-green, stained with purple, lip 

 bright yellow, with purple dots at sides of disk. 



Also in S. India. 



T. maculaia^ Hk. f. {Ania maculaia, Thw.) has to be deleted; the 

 plant is properly referred to C/irysog/ossuin, q. v. (See Fl. B. Ind. vi. 193. ) 



15. ARUNDZNA, BI. 



Terrestrial, erect herbs; rootstock creeping, sheathed; stem 

 elongate, rigid, terete, leafy; 1. distichous, narrow, flat, jointed 

 on their sheathing bases; fl. in terminal, erect, stiff, simple, 

 few-fld. racemes; bracts distichous in bud, coriaceous, per- 

 sistent; sep. and pet. oblong or lanceolate, flat, spreading, 

 many-veined ; lip large, broad, sessile on the base of the 

 colunm, and embracing it by its convolute side lobes, mid lobe 

 flat, crisped, disk lamellate; column long, slender, narrowl}' 

 winged, foot o; anth. 4-celled, pollinia 8, in two superposed 

 unequal groups of 4, united by a viscus, waxy, lower pair of 

 each group smaller, incumbent on the upper. — Sp. 8; 7 in 

 Fl. B. Ind. 



A. minor, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 125 (1831). 

 Thw. Enum. 301. C. P. 485. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 857. 



Stems 1-2 ft., tufted on the hard rootstock, as thick as a 

 small goose-quill, terete, leafless below, and there clothed with 

 long appressed distichous membranous sheaths, leafy above ; 

 I. many, erect, 2-3 by \ in., linear, acute, strict, keeled, striate, 

 sheath membranous, appressed, smooth, ribbed; raceme 

 2-3 in., 3-4-fld., ped. and rhachis stout, stiff; bracts broadh- 

 ovate, persistent; pedicel with ov. 'l in.; fl. \l in. across; sep. 

 and pet. subacute; fr. i-i| in., fusiform, erect. 



Wet places in moist region, up to 4000 ft.; rather common. Dolos- 

 bagie; Ramboda; (ialagama; Atampitiya, Uva. Fl. Jan., Feb.; pale 

 pink, lip yellow, with rose coloured margins. 



Endemic. 



16. AGROSTOPHYX.XjirnS, B/ume. 

 Epiphytes; stems tufted, flattened, stiff, rooting at the v^ery 

 base only, pseudobulbs o; 1. distichous, vertical, linear, or 

 linear-oblong, sheath flattened, persistent; fl. very small, 

 crowded in a sessile terminal head, mixed with paleaceous 

 bracts; sep. erect, conniving, concave, lateral broader, adnatc 

 to the foot of the column; pet. narrow; lip adnatc to the 

 foot of the column, erect, entire, or 3-fid.; column short, 



