Plate 1784. 



A. OBERONIA RECURVA, Lindl 

 B. OBERONIA WIGHTIANA, Lindl, var. 



Orchide^e. Tribe Malaxidej;. 



0. recurva, Ltndl. in Bot. Reg. 1839, Misc. No. 8 ; Fol. Orchid. 

 Oheron. No. 24; parvula, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis, scapo 

 breyi bracteato, racemo gracili densifloro, bracteis lanceolatis flores 

 pedicellatos non excedentibus, petalis obovatis dentatis, labelli erosi 

 lobis lateralibns rotundatis terminali 2-fido, capsula pedicellata. — O. 

 setifera, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. No. 11. Malaxis setifera and recurva, 



Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 210, 212. 

 Hab. The Co^can, Law, Stocks, &c. 



Planta 2-4-pollicaris. Folia 1-1^ poll, longa, sicca merabranacea. 



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I have examined several flowers of Lindley's specimens of his 



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-• ^.yvi<A aim limiiy umers, anu iaueu. w jjiiu any «iw» ""^ "~ 



petals that he has drawn on the sheet with his specimen and described 

 in the ' Fol. Orchid.' ; in all the petals are as represented in Plate 



1784 A.— J. D. Hooker. 

 0. Wightiana, Lindl in Bot. Beg. 1 839, Misc. No. 9 ; Fol Orchid. 



No. 25 ; parvula, foliis lineari-oblongis ensiformibus acntis ; 

 »capo brevi bracteato, racemo gracili, bracteis lanceolatis v. oblongis 

 erosis flores minutos subsequantibus, petalis linearibus, labelli lobis 

 lateralibus magnis rotundatis, terminali 2-cruri, crunbus linearibus 

 subdentatis.— Wight. Ic. t. 1G27. 0. Arnottiana, Wight, I. c. t. IttRf. 

 O. stachyoides, A. Rich in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, xv. 15, t. i. A. 

 Malaxis Wightiana, Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 212. 



Hab. Nilghiri and Travancore Mountains, Wight Cetlon, 

 Walker, &c. 



Folia 1-4 poll, longa. Scapus cum racemo 3-6-pollicaris, ercctas v. 

 decurvus. Flores pallidi, & ad ^ poll. lati. Capsxla longe P ed,ceJlata. 

 Var. bracteis oblonms obtusis crenatis. (Nilghiri hills.)-J. V. 



Hooker. 



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A. O. RECUR va. Fig. 1. Bract. 2. Flower. 3. Pollmia. 4. Capsule. A 



enlarged. 



'urged. T - o Pollini'i 



B. 0. Wightiana var. Fig. 6. Bud and bract. 6. Flower, h 1*P- «• 



All enlarged. 



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