212 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



(D.). A specimen sent to me by Dr. T. Cooke, as being common afc 

 Mahableshwar, was identified as this at Kew. The species which I 

 found at Mahableshwar I took to be U. reticulata, but the descriptions 

 vary only in the spur of the latter being conical and shorter ; and if 

 the plants are different species they are certainly very much alike. 



4. U. orbiculata. One or two inches high, very slender, 

 leaves round petioled, flowers few, blue with yellow throat, 

 sepals rounded about equal, lower lip with 5 obtuse equal lobes, 

 spur rather thick, curved forwards. 



5. Konkan. Very common in the Bhore Ghaut. Dr. T. CooTce. 

 Almost throughout India in the hills (#.) 



U. exoleta, two inches high, slender, leaves of many capillary seg- 

 ments, flowers yellow with orange streaks, one or two at the top of 

 the scape, sepals unequal, spur blunt. Not in /). or 6r., but it is, I 

 believe, R.'s U. biflora. I had it at Dapoli. * U. affinis ( U. decipiens, D.), 

 like U. arcuata, but smaller in all parts, and the spur straight or only 

 slightly curved. Vingorla (IX). U, racemosa (U. nivea, D.), flowers 

 few, scattered, white, spur conical, twice as long as the lower lip, 

 scales attached to the scape by the middle. Vingorla (D.}. H. has 

 corolla blue or whitish, lower lip of corolla obscurely 4-lobed. 



The eight orders which follow form a very natural group, 

 containing all the plants with what Kousseau in his "Lettres 

 elementaires sur la botanique," called " fleurs en gueule," which 

 may be described as those having a two-lipped corolla and 

 didynamous stamens. It is not that all the plants contained in 

 these eight orders have these two peculiarities, for there are in 

 them a number of genera or species with flowers either regular 

 or obscurely two-lipped, and others with stamens not didynamous. 

 But by far the greater number of species contained in the eight 

 orders, which between them make up at least 700 genera, have 

 these distinctions. 



The stamens in these orders, as in corolliflorals generally, 

 are placed on the corolla. The other characteristics of each 

 order are given in the usual way, but the following short state- 

 ment of obvious differences will be found useful. It refers not 

 to all the species or genera contained in each order, but to the 

 plants found in W. India, and described in this book. 



1. SCROPH CLARINET. Herbs, the greater part inconspicuous. 

 Stem generally round, fruit generally a many-seeded capsule. 



2. OROBANCHEJS. A small order of leafless parasites, which 

 can scarcely be taken for anything else. There are only six 

 species in W. India. 



