Order i\2. Orchidcce. 329 



DIVISION A. Section 1. Petals truncate, bifid or bipartite, 

 lip 3-lobed. 



1. H. digital a. One or two feet high, leaves oblong ovate, 

 waved, flowers greenish-white, the segments of the petals and 

 of the lip linear and much alike, bract spur and ovary nearly 

 the same length. 



Dapoli. Caranjah (D.). W. Ghauts (ff.). 



Smell strong and sickly. H. makes D.'s H. foliosa a var. of this ; 

 it is smaller, and has the peculiarity of having the hinder divisions 

 of the petals spirally twisted. I had it at Dapoli, D. in Salsette. 



* H. Gibsoni, very stout and leafy, "much like a gigantic state of 

 H. digitata with much longer leaves, and a few very large flowers" 

 (H.). Not in D. or G. Near Kyreshwar, Konkan, and Khandalla, 

 Dr. Gibson (H.). 



2. H. grandiflora (H. rotundifolia, D.). All smooth, about 

 six inches high, stem slender, arising from one round leaf 

 pressed close on the ground ; flowers few, divisions of the lip 

 about equal, middle one broader. 



Rutnagherry, on the rocks, and I believe very common at Dapoli, 

 but I have made some mistake in my notes. Between Ram Ghaut 

 and Belgaum, and Sivner Fort (D.). Konkan and Ghauts, and no 

 other hab. (H.). The specific name is very misleading. 



* 3. H. rariflora. Stem slender, leaves oblong lanceolate, 

 radical, or on the lower part of the stem ; flowers one or two 

 with bracts shorter than the pedicels, lower segment of petals 

 longer and narrower than the upper, lateral segments of lip 

 long and very narrow, spur very long and stout. 



S. Konkan (D.)- Ghauts and Deccan peninsnla ; leaves and 

 flowers very variable in size (H.)- 



* H. stenopetala, stem tall and stont, leaves oblong, raceme short 

 dense, flowers very variable in size, greenish, segments of petals 

 slender, sepals with filiform tips, segments of lip very variable, spur 

 as long as the ovary. Not in D. or G. Konkan, Stocks (H.). 



Section 2. Petals entire, lip 3-lobed, side-lobes broad, except 

 H. platyphylla, mid-lobe narrow. 



4. H. Susannce (Plafanthera S., D.). The giant orchis. 

 Two to four feet high, leaves ovate oblong acute, flowers very 

 large, upper sepal very broad, 4-sided, petals linear acute, 

 side-lobes of lip very broad, truncate, pectinated, mid-lobe 

 linear, spur very long, bracts leafy. 



Dapoli. Konkan and Ghauts in several places, but nowhere abun- 



