CXXV. OllCllIDACE.E. 677 



irregularly toothed. Lip usually longer thau the sepals, the margins 

 crenate or erose ; side lobes large, orbicular ; midlobe obcordate, 2- 

 lobulate, with usually a narrow sinus. Capsules i in. long, ovoid or sub- 

 obovoid, with elongate pedicels as long as the capsules. ¥1. B. I. v. 5, 

 p. 680 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 260 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, p. ] 37 ; Hook. f. 

 Icon. PI. (1888) t. 1784 A ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) 

 p. 518 ; Gammie, in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 16, part 4 (1905) p. 564. 

 Oheronia setifera, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. [Oberonia] (1859) p. 3. — Flowers : 

 Eeb.-Apr. 



Throughout the G-hdts and Konkan, Gammie. Konkan : Law I, Dalzelll Deccan : 

 Mahableshwar, Cooke '., Woudrow, H. M. Birdwood ; Khanclala, Law, 39 ! — Distrib. 

 India (W. Penuisula). 



3. Oberonia Brunoniana, Wiglit, Icon. v. 5 (1852) p. 3, t. 1622. 

 A large and handsome species. Leaves elongate, 6-14 by f-l:j- in., 

 linear-oblong, succulent, nearly as long as the inflorescence. Scapes 

 2-8 in. long, flattened, adnate to the upper leaf, 2-edged ; aduate leaf 

 1-4 in. long, usually falcate at the apex, variable in position ; bracts 

 lanceolate, denticulate, acute. Flowers ^ in. across, sessile, in dense stiff 

 erect spikes 4-6 in. long, like a rat's tail {Rooler). Sepals ovate, sub- 

 obtuse, reflexed, slightly longer than the petals, brown. Petals linear, 

 subacute, quite entire, pale yellow". Lip brown, cordate at the base, with 

 a concave disk, entire, constricted below the apex which is 2-lobed, some- 

 times with a small tooth between the lobes. Capsules j-^ in. long, 

 sessile or nearly so. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 681. This may possibly be the 

 plant which Dalzell & Gibson (Bo. Fl, p. 260) term 0. Lindleijana. 



Konkan: BalzclV. Kanaka: Kala naddi, Eitchie, 1405! — Distrib. ludia (W. 

 Peninsula), appai'ently endemic. 



Excluded Species. 



OBESONIA PLATYCAULON, Wight, Icon. V. 5 (1852) p. 3, t. 1623. Leaves 6-10 

 by ^-| in., uarrowlj ensiform, straight, subacute. Scape very broad, flat, adnate to 

 a leaf to the top and almost as bi'oad as the leaf; bracts ovate, sheathing the sessile 

 ovary, erose, obtuse. Flowers wliilish or pale yellow, about 5 in. across, in spikes 

 3-5 in. long with a stout rhachis. Petals narrow, linear, slightly shorter thau the 

 sepals. Lips broader than long ; side lobes broad, rounded ; midlobe 3-toothed, the 

 central tooth the smallest. Capsules sessile or nearly so. 



This plant does not appear to have been found in the Bombay Presidency. It 

 seems to belong to the Pulney Hills. Graham does not mention the plant (nor in fact 

 the genus) in his Catalogue, nor do Dalzell & Gibson include it in their 'Flora cf 

 Bombay.' Woodrow does not cite it, and Gammie says in his " Orchids of the Bombay 

 Presidency " (Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 16, p. 5(54) that he does not know the plant. 

 There are in all 2 sheets in Herb. Kew., one from the Pulney Hills from Wight's 

 Herbarium and one other (also from Wight's Herbarium) without flowers, on which is 

 a ticket apparently written by Wight — " 19. I'arasite, rare. Ida not know what it 

 is " ; and at the bottom of the sheet in pencil are the words " Bombay Graham." 

 Thus the only evidence as to the occurrence of the plant in Bombay depends on a 

 pencilled note which does not state that the plant was collected in Bombay, but 

 merely sent from there by Graham. 



2. MICROSTYLIS, Nutt. 



Terrestrial (rarely epiphytic) herbs, pseudobulbous or not. Leaves 

 one or more, membranous, plicate, continuous with their sheaths. 

 Flowers small, resupinate in terminal racemes. Sepals spreading or 

 recurved, subequal. Petals as long as the sepals but narrower. Lip 



