708 CXXA'. 0HCHIJ)ACE7E. 



Leaves 4-5, alternate, usually cluslered near the l^nse of the 

 stem, l|-5 by | in., linear or linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 

 sometimes oblanceolate, shortly sheathing. Stem with a few distant 

 acute sheaths (reduced leaves). Mowers numerous, in spikes 3-6 in. 

 long on a glandular-pubescent spirally twisted rhachis ; bracts ovate, 

 acute or acuminate, exceeding the sessile ovary. Sepals ■} by -^ in., 

 subequal, ovate-oblong, acute, with broad bases. Petals slightly shorter 

 than the sepals, -^j in. broad, linear, obtuse, more or less connate with 

 the dorsal sepal into a hood. Lip j-^-^ in. long, 3-lobed, dilated at 

 base and apex, the base subsaccate, 2-glandular, the apex subquadrate, 

 truncate, retuse, crenulate. Pollinia cohering, clavate. Capsules | in. 

 long, fusiform, ribbed. Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 102 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 270 ; 

 Wight, Icon. t. 1724 (middle and riqlit-hand figs.) ; King & Pantling, in 

 Ann. Eov. Bot. Gard. Calc. v. 8 (1898) p. 278, t. 369: Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 519 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1028. 



Rare in tbe Bombay Presidency. Konkan: Stocks] S. M. Country: Cliorla 

 QhAt, DahcU tf- Gibson. Xanara : Dalzell, 40! — Distrib. Througbout tbe niotin- 

 tainous parts of India at suitable elevations ; Ceylon, Afghanistan, Northern Asia, 

 China, Java, Australia, New Zealand. 



27. ZEUXINE, Liudl. 



Terrestrial herbs ; stems decumbent at the base, succulent, glabrous. 

 Leaves membranous, sometimes withering at flowering time. Flowei's 

 small, in racemes or spikes. Sepals usually subequal; lateral pair free; 

 dorsal sepal concave and forming a hood with the petals. Petals like the 

 dorsal sepal. Lip adnate to the base of the column, cymbiform or saccate, 

 the apical lobe shortly clawed or sessile, divided into 2 oblong subquadrate 

 more or less truncate divergent lobules, or entire, or with narrow 

 decurved lobules ; sac at the base with calli or laminae inside. Column 

 very short, its anterior face with lamellar or conical processes ; stigmas 2, 

 lateral, distant ; anther membranous, sometimes ridged, its cells con- 

 tiguous ; pollinia pyriform, attached by an oblong gland to the erect 

 rostellum. — Distkib. Species about 20, Tropical Asiatic and African. 



Leaves linear, sessile ; lip not longer than the sepals ; pollinia 



sessile on an oblong gland 1. Z. sulcata. 



Leaves ovate, petii)late; lip twice as long as the sepals; 

 pollinia adnate for two-thirds of their length to tbe linear 

 appendage of the gland 2. Z. longilahris. 



^. Zeuxine sulcata, Undl. Gen. cj- Sj). Onlud. (1840) p. 485. 

 Whole plant 2-10 in. high ; stem passing into the peduncle, leafy, 

 glabrous. Leaves 1-2 by ^-^ in., linear, acun)inate, clasping, sessile on 

 the hyaline truncate sheaths, gradually passing into linear bracts 

 upwards. Flowers in densely-flowered racemes i-2 in. long ; bracts 

 \ in. long, much exceeding the ovary, ovate, caudate-acuminate, erect, 

 membranous; pedicels very short. Sepals unequal, greenish-white; 

 lateral pair i by ^-^^ in., smaller than the dorsal, obliquely ovate-oblong, 

 Bubobtuse ; dorsal sepal i by J^ in., concave, ovate, obtuse. Petals 

 greenish-white, slightly shorter than the dorsal sepal, J^ in. bi-oad, 

 falcately oblong, obtuse, united with the dorsal sepal to form a hood 

 over the column. Lip i in. long, hammer-headed, yellow, with a small 

 cymbiform sac at the base; apical lobe -}-^ by yV i"., subquadrate. 



