Physurus.'] OrcMdecs. 1 1 I 



1. C. parvifolia, IJndl. in Bot. Reg. xxv. Misc. 19 (1839). 



Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 488; in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 187. Thw. 

 Enum. 313. C. P. 3071. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 105. 



Whole plant '^^-6 in. high, slender; stem prostrate below 

 with short, tumid, green internodes, the upper internodes 

 enclosed in hyaline sheaths; 1. 3-6, rather distant, ^-i in. long, 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, dark greenish-brown 

 above, glabrous, veins obscure; petiole \ in., sheath hyaline, 

 inflated ; raceme elongate, puberulous, bracts about as long as 

 the pedicels; fl. minute, sep. jV in., glabrous, connate to the 

 middle, dorsal broadest, ovate, obtuse; pet. oblong-obovate, 

 obtuse, tips exserted ; lip rather longer than the sep., base of 

 claw subsaccate, enclosing 2 small forked calli, limb exserted, 

 subquadrate, 6-8-lobed; column with 2 parallel appendages 

 in front; rostellum at length bifid, arms subulate; anth. 

 dorsal, ovate- cordate, pollinia pyriform, sessile on a short 

 narrow gland. 



Moist region, 2-4000 ft.; rare. Ambagamuwa ; Hantane. Fl. Jan., 

 Feb.; pinkish-white. 

 Endemic. 



2. C. flabellata, Wight, Ic. v. i, 16 (185 1). 

 Thw. Enum. 313. C. P. 3377- 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 105. Wight, Ic. t. 1727 {Monochilus flabcUatus). 



Whole plant 6 in. high; stem stout, prostrate below with 

 tumid internodes; 1. few, i-| in., petioled, ovate, acute, 

 3-veined, glabrous, sheaths hyaline, truncate, inflated ; ped. 

 very slender, flexuous, and bracts and tubular parts of perianth 

 glandular-pubescent, sheaths few, loose, narrowly lanceolate; 

 raceme short, few- and lax-fld., bracts lanceolate, longer than 

 the very short pedicels; cal. about \ in. long, tube ventricose, 

 lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse ; pet. linear-oblong, falcate, obtuse, 

 tips exserted ; lip with a very short saccate claw, and a broad 

 spreading suborbicular 2-lobed limb, lobes sub 5-fid, sac cym- 

 biform, with 2 enclosed calli; appendages of column and 

 rostellar arms long, subspathulate; anth. with a dilated mem- 

 branous tip, pollinia 2, pyriform, subsessile on the elongate 

 gland. 



Montane zone, 3-6000 ft. ; rare. Ambagamuwa; Nuwara Eliya. Fl. 

 Feb., March. 



Hills of S. India, Bhotan, and Burma. 



45. PKYSURVS, Rich. 

 Terrestrial herbs; stem stout and creeping below; roots 

 fibrous; 1. petioled, ovate, acute; fl. in a small terminal spike; 



