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shorter and thicker, spur shorter and flowers double the size. H. has 

 petals very variable white with purple nerves, lip white with yellow 

 nerves, bracts very long. The Konkan (D.). * E. ochreata, leaves 

 elliptic with 3 broad loose sheaths, bracts lanceolate, petals broader 

 than the sepals, acute, flat, lip oblong serrated, with all the veins 

 fringed, spur small, hemispherical. "A small -flowered species with 

 rather dense cylindrical raceme : all parts of the flower membranous " 

 (J5.). Konkan and Canara, and no other hab. (H.). 



7. CYMBIDIUM. 



* G. bicolor (C. aloifotium, D.). Leaves long sword-shaped, 

 the tip unequally lobed, racemes pendulous, many-flowered ; 

 petals and sepals lanceolate, yellowish-red, lip dark lilac or 

 purple with saccate base and acute side lobes, disk with 2 

 curved thick side appendages. 



Mahableshwar and Konkan (D. and G.). " One of our largest 

 orchids, growing in great bunches on the branches of trees, and 

 even on palms " (D.). 



8. EHTNCOSTYLIS. 



R. retusa (Saccolabium guttatum, D.). Stem stout, leaves 

 thick linear channelled, ragged at the apex ; flowers very many, 

 in large and beautiful drooping racemes, pale with purple spots, 

 sepals and petals closely joined and spreading, so as to make 

 the flower as broad as long, lip long narrow, bending over to 

 the column, spur short baggy. 



Very frequent on mango trees in the Konkan, and spread more 

 or less all over India. It is very conspicuous, and one of the most 

 beautiful of the plants which " drink the bright shower, and feed 

 upon the air " (Dr. Darwin). 



9. BRIDES, 



jiE. maculosum. Leaves oblique at the point, obtuse, petals 

 broader than sepals, lip ovate with a tubercle at the base of 

 the middle lobe, and a short straight spur ; flowers pale rose- 

 colour, spotted with purple. Ichwach. 



Rutnagherry and Mahableshwar. Pretty common in Konkan 

 jungles (D.). Matheran (Birdwood). This also is a large and hand- 

 some species, and is no doubt G.'s JE. multiflorum. H. seems to make 

 the size much smaller, and does not refer to either D. or G. 



* JE. crispum, stem very stout, leaves strap-shaped, obliquely 2- 

 lobed, panicle large, the terminal raceme long and drooping, sepals 

 and petals very broad, mid-lobe of lip broad ovate crenate or toothed, 

 spur short, obtuse, projecting forward, flowers rose-coloured, lip 

 darker. RaMising, pausing. S. Konkan and W^ri (D.). W. Ghauts (ff.). 



