Spinmthes.'] OvchideCB, 2 1 7 



Z. nervosa, Lindl. is given for Ceylon in Journ. Linn. See. i. 187, on 

 authority of a specimen so labelled in Herb. Hk. at Kew. The locality is 

 an error (see Fl. B. Ind. vi. 108). 



4. Z. flava, Bejith. in Gen. PL iii. 600 (1883). 



Monochilus flavum, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 187; Thw. Enum. 

 313. Trim. Syst. Cat. 90. C. P. 3120. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 108. Hook. Ic. PI. t. 2176. Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcult. 

 viii. t. 386. 



Whole plant 10-24 in. high; stem stout, inclined or pro- 

 strate below, with long rooting internodes and roots clothed 

 with matted fibrils ; 1. 4-7, distant, 1-2 in. long, sessile or 

 shortly stoutly petioled, ovate, acute, or obtuse, 5 -veined, 

 bright green, membranous, sheath obliquely truncate, rather 

 inflated, hyaline ; ped. and spike sparsely hairy, purplish, with 

 few distant small lanceolate sheaths ; spike 3-5 in., slender, 

 laxly many-fid. ; bracts lanceolate, as long as the ov. ; sep. ^V 

 in. long, hairy externally, dorsal hooded, lateral ovate, obtuse, 

 spreading ; pet. dimidiate-oblong, obtuse ; lip rather longer 

 than the lateral sep., sessile, base saccate enclosing 2 twisted 

 spurs, claw naked, suddenly dilated into two divaricate, 

 oblong-quadrate wings, outer margins of wings entire or 

 toothed ; rostellum at length 2-partite, segm, erect ; anth, 

 ovate-lanceolate, pollinia obovoid, sessile or shortly stipitate 

 on an oblong gland. 



Moist region 1-3000 ft. in damp forests; rare. Dolosbagie; Amba- 

 gamuwa. Fl. Feb., March ; white, sac of the lip pink, limb tinged with 

 yellow. 



Himalaya, Assam, Burma, Java, Borneo. 



49. SPZRANTHES, Rich. 

 Small, terrestrial, leafy herbs ; roots of fleshy, cylindric or 

 tuberous fibres ; 1. narrow, bases sheathing or petioled ; fl. 

 small, secund in a twisted erect spike ; sep. subequal, dorsal 

 arched, forming a hood with the pet, below spreading from an 

 erect gibbous base ; pet. linear; lip as long as the lateral sep., 

 erect, obovate or fan-shaped, recurved, base concave or sac- 

 cate, sac not produced beyond the bases of the lateral sep. ; 

 column short, terete, rostellum short, stigma broad, anticous ; 

 anth. dorsal, erect, 2-celled, pollinia 4, united in pairs, 

 clavate, granular, pendulous from the rostellum by a small 

 gland. — Sp. 80 ; 2 in. Fl. B. Ind. 



S. australis, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. x., sub t. 823 (1824). 



Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 464; Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 178. Thw. Enum. 

 312. C. P. 550. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 102. Wight, Ic. t. 1724. Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutt. viii. 

 t. 369- 



