328 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



* Z. longilalris (Monochilus I., D.). Very small, leaves ovate 

 petioled, scape scaly, spike glandular pubescent, few-flowered, bracts 

 roundish hooded as long as the ovary, lip much longer than the 

 sepals, winged and toothed, flowers white with green sepals. Chorla 

 Ghaut (Z).)- Ghauts and S. Konkan (#.). 



13. FOGONIA. 



P. carinata. Erect, leaf cordate much pleated, quite separate 

 from "the stem, petals and sepals equal lanceolate, green, lip 

 about the same length, white streaked with red or purple, mid- 

 lobe broad, capsule oval, 6-winged. 



Dapoli. Common in Konkan jungles (D.}. Plains of India (#.). 



* P. fldbelliformis " differs from the last in the many-nerved leaf: 

 the flowers are not readily distinguishable in dried specimens " (H.). 

 D. also found no better distinctions " Densest and shadiest thickets 

 of the Konkan ; also near Dharwar ; " but he had never seen the 

 flowers. 



* P. plicata, leaf round cordate hairy, petiole often rusty purple, 

 or brown ; flowers one to three, yellowish-green wich whitish or 

 rose-coloured lip; sepals and petals spreading; lip embracing the 

 column, the tip broad 2-lobed. Not in D. or G. Konkan (H.). 

 " Growing under the thick shade of bamboos in the vicinity of Cal- 

 cutta ; immediately after the flowers decay the leaf from each bulb 

 appears " (-2.). 



To this tribe also belongs Clieirostylis. Stem leafy, sepals com- 

 bined in a tube, lip erect, base saccate, limb clawed and then dilated, 

 column short with two appendages in front. * C. flalellata, scape 

 glandular, pubescent, leaves ovate acute, flowers few white, limb of 

 lip roundish, deeply 2-cleft, the divisions 4 or 5-lobed, the claw with 

 two callosities at the base. Chorla Ghaut (Z).). Konkan (H. \ 

 " The leaves are almost transparent and most beatifully veined " 

 (ZX). 



Tribe 4. OPHRYDE.E. 



14. HABENAKIA. 

 To this tribe most of the well-known English orchids belong. 



H. has no less than 106 species of Halenaria in his Flora, and 

 divides them into two divisions and eight sections. Of the species 

 given below all except the last four are in division A, which has 

 " lateral sepals spreading, deflexed or reflexed." Division B has 

 " lateral sepals erect or ascending, or forming a hood with the dorsal 

 sepal and petals." 



Note, The flowers are nearly always white, though sometimes 

 tinged with green or yellow. 



Note. Dr. Dymock gives Mhenas as the Marhatta name of the 

 various species of this genus. 



