194 OrcJlldeCE. {Diphccnfrum. 



conical; column very short, rostellum obscure; anth. de- 

 pressed, truncate, polHnia oblong, strap short, spathulate, 

 gland large, 2-fid; fr. i-^- in., obovoid, erect, ribs thick, pedicel 

 I in., very stout. 



Low country below 2000 ft., on bushes and rocks ; rather common, 

 especially in the dry and intermediate districts. Fl. March-September; 

 entirely bright deep chrome yellow. 



Also in S.W. India. 



A striking species, the long erect peduncles carrying the flowers high 

 above the bushes over which the plant climbs. 



31. SZPIiOCBNTRUM, IJndl. 

 Epiphytes; stem short, pseudobulb o; roots long, stout; 

 1. distichous, narrow, fleshy, subterete or complicate; peduncle 

 lateral, branched; fl. small, subspicate on the spreading 

 branches; sep. spreading and incurved, dorsal oblong, lateral 

 larger; pet. like the dorsal sep.; lip rather longer than the 

 Sep., tongue-shaped, jointed on the base of the column, entire; 

 shortly 2-spurred at the base, disk fleshy, spurs short, col- 

 lateral ; column very short, clavate, 2-auricled, truncate, foot o; 

 anth. flat, ovate, obtuse, 2-celled, cells very small, at the broad 

 end of the anth., pollinia 2, small, sulcate or 2-partite, waxy, 

 strap very large and broad, gland broad. — Sp. 2 or 3 ; 2 in 

 Fl. B. Ind. 



D. recurvum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. xviii. sub t. 1522 (1S32). 



Thw. Enum. 306. C. P. 3192. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 78. Wight, Ic. tt. 1680, 16S1 (Z?. longifolium and 

 D. recurvum). 



Stem 2-6 in., densely leafy, very stout ; internodcs short ; 

 roots very long, flattened ; 1. 4-6 by \-\ in., linear, recurved, 

 coriaceous, keeled, unequally obtusely 2-fid ; panicle 5-8 in. 

 long, shortly peduncled, curved, branches {q.\v, long, spreading 

 and decurved, many-fld.; fl. about \ in. broad; bracts minute, 

 acute, deciduous; dorsal sep. oblong, obtuse, lateral larger, 

 falcatcly broadly oblong, 3-veined ; pet. like the dorsal sep., 

 I -veined; lip ovate-oblong, side lobes obscure, disk fleshy, 

 excavate, with a median ridge, spurs short, conical, acute, 

 incurved; auricles of column incurved; anth. truncate, cells 

 minute, basal; strap of pollinia large, cuneiform, narrowed 

 from the broad base upwards to the insertion of the minute 

 pollinia; fr. \ in., clavate, strongly ribbed, stoutly pedicclled. 



Moist region ; very rare. The only specimens were collected by 

 Gardner somewhere in the Central Prov., but have no locality attached. 

 Fl. described as pink, with a darker s})ur. 



Also in S. India. 



