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* D. Macraei, much-branched, steins 2 or 3 feet long, leaf one 

 terminal, oblong, flowers 2 or 3, small white, the middle lobe of the 

 lip much dilated, and the disk crested. On jdmbul trees at Ram 

 Ghaut (D.). * D. herbaceum (D. ramosissimum, D.). Much-branched, 

 branchlets leafy, leaves linear lanceolate, flowers few, small, 

 yellow, lip narrow, middle lobe shorter than the side ones. Maha- 

 bleshwar and Ghauts (D.). * D. crepidatum (D. Lawianum, D.). 

 Stems stout, erect, leaves linear lanceolate, flowers in pairs, white 

 or pink, lip yellow, roundish or broad ovate, concave. Pdtrika. 

 "The flowers are of a beautiful shining rose-colour" (-D.). On 

 trees on the Ghauts to the S. (D.). S. Konkan and Canara (-ff.)- 



All these six species are in Mr. Birdwood's Matheran list. 



4. ERIA. 



E. Dalzellii (including E. microcJiilos, D.). One or two 

 inches high, pseudo-bulbs lobed, reticulated with a white skin, 

 spike many-flowered, one-sided ; flowers minute, straw-colour 

 with dull orange lip, bracts sepals and petals more or less 

 lanceolate. 



Sawarda. "Wari country and Ghauts (D.). 



* E. reticosa (E. braccata, D.). Pseudo-bulbs round, enclosed in 

 a net-like skin, stem none, leaves about 2, lanceolate, scape one- 

 flowered with large boat-shaped bract ; flowers rather large, white, lip 

 yellowish, obscurely lobed and inconspicuous, spur broad incurved. 

 S. Konkan and Ghauts (D.). Matheran (Birdwood). * E. mysorensis, 

 leaves lanceolate, flowers from among them, curved, sepals petals 

 and lip more or less lanceolate, the latter clawed. Not in D, 

 Dharwar, &c. (H.). 



5. PHAJUS. 



* P. albus. Stems stout, pendulous, leaves in two rows, 

 oblong, soft, glaucous beneath, sepals and petals oblong lanceo- 

 late, 2 or 3 inches long, white, lip shovel-shaped, middle lobe 

 broad, toothed and crisped, white or yellow, veined darker, 

 spur short. 



Not in D. "Trees at Khandalla, rare ; a very beautiful parasite " 

 (Cr.). The Konkan. " Very variable in size of flower and colour of 

 lip (#.) 



The following belong also to this tribe : 



Liparis. Lip united to the base of the column, usually broad, 

 column long, bent in, margined or winged towards the top. * L. 

 paradoxa, 6 to 18 inches high, leaves erect, sheathing, lanceolate, 

 flowers racemed, yellow-brown, lip with the sides erect. * L. Dal- 

 zellii, stems 4 inches long, as thick as the thumb, leaves elliptic 

 ovate, flowers half an inch across, lip fleshy, dark purple, broadly 

 obcordate, tubercled at the base. Neither of these are in D. t and I 



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