Habcnarm.] OrcIlideCB. 235 



'Cylindric; 1. 2-3 by i\-2 in., spreading or suberect, oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute or acuminate, coriaceous, strongly 7-veined, 

 base sheathing; spike 6-14 in., rather stout; bracts as long as 

 the erect hardly beaked ov., lower \ in. long, ovate-lanceo- 

 late, acuminate ; sep. and pet. \-\ in. long, subequal in length, 

 obtuse, I -veined, dorsal sep. oblong, lateral linear-oblong, 

 subfalcate; pet. larger, broadly oblong, tip rounded; lip 

 longer than the sep., thick, clawed, claw concave, limb 3- 

 partite, lateral segm. subulate or filiform, spreading and 

 recurved, median shorter, straight, slender, or short and 

 spathulate, spur as long as the sep. or longer, incurved, 

 globose, contracted into a long or short pedicel; anth. small, 

 cells parallel, tubes o, pollinia pyriform, grains large, caudicles 

 and glands obscure ; rostellum erect, truncate, plicate, toothed, 

 concealing the glands of the pollinia; fr. \ in., erect, fusiform, 

 very shortly pedicelled. 



Van latifolia. 



Stem 3-4 ft., very robust; 1. 4-5 by 2-2^ in., oval, acumi- 

 nate, very coriaceous, many-veined, base sheathing, fl. larger. 



Montane zone above 4000 ft; rather rare (?). Adam's Peak; Horton 

 Plains. Var. /3, Hantane; N. Eliya. Fl. Feb. and Sept.; green. 

 Endemic. 



17. K. cubitalis, Br. Prodr. 312 (18 10). 



Herm. Mus. 23. Fl. Zeyl. n. 320. Orchis cubitalis, L. Sp. PL 940; 

 Moon, Cat. 59. Platmithera cubitalis, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 292 ; 

 Thw. Enum. 310. C. P. 3202 (226 part). 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 157. 



Stem with spike 1-3 ft, slender, leafy below and upwards; 

 tubers small, oblong; 1. 2-6 in., sessile, linear-oblong or 

 -lanceolate, acute, flat, veins obscure, coriaceous ; spike 8-12 in., 

 narrow, many-fld. ; bracts \-\ in., ovate-lanceolate, as long as 

 the decurved ov. or shorter; fl. minute, rather fleshy, sep. and 

 pet. Jo in., obtuse, all with a diffuse thickened midrib, ending 

 often in a dorsal swelling below the tip, dorsal sep. linear- 

 oblong, obscurely 3-veined, lateral broadly obliquely ovate; 

 pet. oblong, obtuse; lip about as long as the sep., fleshy, claw 

 short, with 3 lobules at the mouth of the spur furthest from 

 the column, limb 3-lobed, lobes short, thick, spreading and 

 recurved, median shortest, spur as long as the sep., cylindric, 

 incurved ; anth. minute, cells parallel, tubes o, pollinia shortly 

 pyriform, subsessile on the glands; rostellum erect, truncate, 

 toothed, plicate, concealing the glands of the pollinia; stig- 

 matic processes short, clavate. 



Moist low country, in paddy fields, (S:c. ; rather common. Hewesse; 

 Morowak Korale. Fl. March, April ; sep. and pet. green, lip yellow. 



