cxxr. oEcniDACE.E. 709 



entire or emarginate at the apex. Coluraa very short, with 2 wings at 

 its apex coveriug the auther; arms of rostellum short, stout, parallel : 

 anther depressed, very shortly beaked, covered by the wings of: the. 

 column ; pollinia clavate, sessile on an oblong gland, 11. B. I. v. 6, 

 p. 106; King & Pantling, in Ann. Eoy. Bot. Gard. Calc. v. 8 (1898) 

 p. 286, t. 381 ; Trim. M. Ceyl. v. 4, p. 215 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 12 (1899) p. 519 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1029 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. V. 6, part 4, p. 355. Zeuxine hracteata, Wight, Icon. v. 5, part 1 

 (1852) p. 16, t. 1724 {bis). Z. brevifoUa, Wight, Icon. ]. c. t. 1725. 

 Z. rohusta, Wight, Icon. 1. c. t. 1726. — Flowers : Jan. 



KoNKAN : Stocks \, Law] Deccan : hills in the Deccan, Cooke I, Woodrowl S. M. 

 Country: Dharwar, Laivl Kanaka: Lawl Sind: Stocks, 4111 — Distrib. Through- 

 out India ; Ceylon, China, Japan, Java, Afghanistan, Philippines. 



2. Zeuxine longilabris, Bentli. in Benili. <^ Hook. f. Gen. PI. v. 3 

 (1883) p. 600. Whole plant about 6-10 in. high, slender, ascending 

 from a creeping and rooting base, about as thick as a crow's quill. 

 Leaves few, rather distant, 1-lf by ^-| in., shortly petiolate, ovate or 

 ovate-oblong, acute, 7-uerved, glabrous, base I'ounded ; sheaths short, 

 hyaline, inflated. Mowers in lux few-flowered spikes ; scape including 

 the spike 4-10 in. long, very slender, pubescent, with 2 or 3 distaut 

 lanceolate sheaths; rhachis of spike glandular-pubescent, 2-3 in. long; 

 bracts about as long as the pubescent ovary, narrowly lanceolate. 

 Sepals \ iu. long, greenish, oblong, obtuse, pubescent. Petals white, 

 twice as long as the sepals. Lip with a claw which is saccate at the 

 base, gradually dilated into the deeply 2-lobed obovate-cuneate midlobe, 

 the cuneate lobes or wings of which are separated by a narrow acute 

 sinus and are crenulate or coarsely toothed on the outer margin ; sac 

 with 2 spurs in the cavity. Auther with a long beak ; pollinia pyriform, 

 adnate for two-thirds of their length to the linear appendage of the 

 small gland. PL B. I. v. 6, p. 107 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, p. 216 ; Prain, 

 Beng. PI. p. 1029. Monochilus hmjilahre, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 

 (1840) p. 487; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 271. M. ajjiiie, Wight, Icon. v. 5, 

 part 1 (1852) p. 16, t. 1728. 



Rare in the Bombay Presidency. Konkan : Law'., Stocks I — Distrib. India (Ben- 

 gal, Assam, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



28. CHEIROSTYLIS, Blume. 



Terrestrial herbs ; stems decumbent and succulent at the base. Leaves 

 membranous. Flowers few, racemose. Sepals united in their lower 

 half into a ventricose tube. Petals shorter than the sepals. Lip saccate 

 or cymbiform at the base, the sac with enclosed calli or setae, the 

 anterior lobe shortly clawed, 2-lobed or fimbriate. Column short with 

 2 long fleshy appendages in front ; rostellum 2-cleft ; stigmas 2, lateral ; 

 anther ei-ect, its cells short ; pollinia 2, bipartite ; caudicle short ; gland 

 oblong. — Distrib. Species about 12, chiefly Indian and Malayan. 



1. Cheirostylis ilabellata, Whjhi, Icon. v. 5, part 1 (1852) p. 16. 

 Whole plant 4-8 in. high. Leaves thin, |-f by f-| in., ovate, acute, 

 3-nerved and reticulately veined, glabrous, base rounded or subcordate ; 

 sheaths hyaline, truncate, inflated ; petioles -l— | in long. Flov,'er8 few, 

 white, in short racemes which rarely reach 1 in. long ; scapes 6-7 in. 



