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tem 10-30 in. in length, very leafy below, glabrous, loosely enveloped 
by the wide leaf-sheaths. Leaves many, long-petioled ; blade 4-8 in. 
long, elliptic or ovate-eclliptic, tapering at each end, acute or acumi- 
nate ; petiole stout, 14-3 in. long. | Peduncle bearing many lanceo- 
late acuminate bracts which are hairy above and glabrous beneath. 
Spike 3-8 in. long, many-and densely fld.; rhachis pubescent. 
Flowers minute, subglobose, white tinged with green; fl. bract as 
long as ovary, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent on the margin. 
Sepal glabrous, subequal, broadly ovate, obtuse. Petals clawed, 
-euneately obovate. Jip longer than sepals, with a large saccate 
base, its apex decurved, triangular, entire ; interior of basal sac with 
‘two rows of long sete on the sides and an oblong callus at the apex 
of each row. Column very short, with a transverse depression below 
the broad anticous stigma. Anther pyriform, obtuse. Pollinia clavate- 
cylindric, sessile on a small oblong gland. 
‘Dehra Dun (Mackinnon); N. Oudh in the Bahraich district (Duthie ) 
Flowers in May. Distris.: Outer Himalayan ranges of Garhwal 
and Kumaon, up to 3,000 ft., and eastwards to Sikkim and Bhutan ; 
also in Assam and on the Khasia and Naga Hills ; found alsoin Bengal, 
the C. Prov. and S. India, extending to China, Hongkong and Java. 
24. ZEUXINE, Lind]. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 106. 
Terrestrial herbs with succulent glabrous stems. Leaves mem- 
‘branous, sometimes withering at the time of flowering. Flowers 
small, in racemes or spikes. Sepals subequal; lateral pair free, 
the dorsal one concave. Petals like the dorsal sepal, and with it 
forming a hood to the column. Jip adnate to base of column, 
-eymbiform or saccate at the base; apical lobe shortly clawed 
or sessile, divided into two subquadrate more or less truncate 
diverging lobules, or entire, or with narrow decurved lobules, the 
basal sac with calli or lamine within. Colwmn very short, its 
anterior face with lamellar or conical processes ; stigmas 2, lateral. 
distinct. Anther membranous, sometimes ridged, the cells conti- 
guous ; pollinia pyriform, attached by an oblong gland to the 
erect rostellum. Species about 30, in Trop. Asia and in Trop, 
and §. Africa. . 
Z. suleata, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 485; Royle Ill. 368; 
F. B. I. vi, 106 ; Watt BE. D. ; K. & P. Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Caic. viii, 
286, t. 381 ; Duthie id, ix, part 2, 168 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 1029 ; Cooke 
Fl. Bomb. ii, 708. Pterygodium suicatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 452. 
