2 1 8 Orchidece. \Corymbis. 



Roots of elongate, fleshy, white, cylindric or almost tube- 

 rous fibres; stem 6-18 in., rather stout or slender, distantly 

 leafy; lower 1. 1-5 in., linear oblong or oblanceolate, obtuse, 

 narrowed into a long or short petiole, upper subulate ; spike 

 1-6 in., slender, dense-fld., twisted, glandular-pubescent ; 

 bracts ovate, acute or acuminate, exceeding the short suberect 

 ov. ; fl, ^jy-\ in. long, glabrous ; scp. linear-oblong, tips obtuse, 

 recurved ; pet. narrower ; lip oblong or sub-flabelliform, trun- 

 cate, crenate-toothed, margins undulate, tip rctuse or apiculate, 

 base saccate, 2-glandular within, disk pubescent; f^r. ] in., 

 fusiform, pubescent. 



Montane zone, above 4000 ft. in grass on open patana land ; common. 

 Fl. May, &c.; white. 



Throughout India, N. Asia, Burma, Java, Australia, New Zealand. 

 Very like the ' Ladies'-tresses ' {S. autumnalis) of the English downs. 



50. CORV3VIBIS, Thouars (Corymborchis, Bl.). 

 Tall, terrestrial, rigid, leafy herbs; roots fibrous; 1. broad, 

 plaited, base sheathing; fl. in very short stifif spreading 

 axillary panicles ; sep. and pet. very narrow, at first cohering 

 in a tube with spreading tips, persistent ; lip inserted on the 

 base of the column, erect, linear, channelled, tip dilated and 

 recurved ; column nearly as long as the pet., erect, terete, tip 

 clavate, top 2-lobed or 2-auricled, rostcllum at length bifid, 

 anticous, 2-lobed; anth. terminal, narrow, erect, acuminate, 

 2-celled, pollinia long, clavate, granular, grooved, peltately 

 attached by a subulate caudicle to a gland ; fr. elongate. — 

 Sp. 6 or 7 ; 4 in Fl. B. Ind. 



C. veratrifolia, B/. Orch. Arc hip. Ind. 125 (1CS58). 



Coryvibis disticha, Thw. Enum. 314 (non Thouars). C. P. 3206. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 91. Bl. 1. c. t. 42, f. i. Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutt. viii. 

 t- 354- 



Stem 4 ft. high, as thick as a swan's quill or thicker, leafy 

 throughout; 1. 12-18 by 3-4 in., oval or oval-lanceolate, cau- 

 date-acuminate, veins very many and strong, sheath strongly 

 ribbed; panicles 4-6 in. long and broad, bracts ovate-lanceo- 

 late; fl. i-ij in. long, erect, scp. and pet. subsimilar, narrowly 

 oblanceolate; lip lanceolate, acuminate, column \ in. long, 

 slender; fr. sessile, i^ in. long, fusiform, erect. 



Moist region in low country; very rare. Maturata (Moon); Four 

 Korales. Fl. October; greenish-white, according to Blume's figure. 



S. India, E. Bengal, Andaman Is., Malaya. 



The llcrb. Peraden. specimens are in fruit only (^.ood flowers are 

 wanted to complete the description. — J. D. H. 



