33O The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



dant (D.). " One plant has been found at Mahableshwar, and one at 

 Matheran " (Birdwood). 



t There is no mistaking this grand plant, from its height and the 

 size of the flowers, which H. pnts at three or four inches in diameter. 

 The deeply pectinated lobes of the lip are also very conspicuous. 



" From the root 



Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves 

 More aery, last the bright consummate flower 

 Spirits odorous breathes." Milton. 



5. H. longicalcarata. Two feet high, leaves oblong, elliptic, 

 stem clothed with sheaths of leaves, flowers white and green, 

 with peduncles and bracts equal, mid-lobe of lip narrow lanceo- 

 late, side-lobes truncated, crenate, spur several times longer than 

 ovary. 



Dapoli. Grassy pastures near Belgaum, abundant (D.). Khan- 

 dalla ((?.). Ghauts (#".) This also is a large and handsome 

 species. 



* H. platyphylla, six to eighteen inches high, leaves three to six, 

 sessile roundish or elliptic, pressed to the ground, flowers fragrant, 

 sepals broader than petals, mid-lobe of lip lanceolate, spur slender, 

 longer than ovary. Not in D. Mahableshwar (CooTce). Identified 

 by H. with G,'s plant of the same name (Belgaum and Dharwar), 

 which, however, he described as having a single round leaf pressed 

 flat to the ground. * H. suaveolens, six inches high, leafy at base, 

 leaves lanceolate acute folded, scape angled with one bract in the 

 middle, flowers few, petals and sepals alike, mid-lobe of lip narrow, 

 side-lobes obliquely truncated, slightly toothed, spur filiform as long 

 as the ovary. This species depends on Dalzell alone, who had it 

 between Vingorla and Malwan. * H. crinifera, very slender, leaves 

 oblong lanceolate, sepals broader than petals, lip much longer, clawed 

 and 4-partite, the side lobes tailed, spur much longer than the beaked 

 ovary. Near Vingorla (D.). Earn Ghaut (&.). D. calls it three to 

 five inches high. ; H. up to eighteen inches. 



Section 3. Petals entire, lip 3-partite, side-lobes very narrow, 

 entire, filiform. 



6. H. commelinifolia. Tall, robust, leaves oblong lanceolate, 

 bracts longer than the beaked ovary, mid sepal roundish, lip 

 with a linear blade, dividing into three very long filiform seg- 

 ments, spur incurved, green, very long. 



Salsette. S. Konkan (#.). Canara also (if.). Not in D. 



7. H. H&yneana. Stem short and stout, leaves narrow 

 oval, bracts leafy, hooded, large, sepals broader than petals, lip 

 thick, mid-lobe longer and broader than the side-lobes, spur 

 about as long as ovary ; flowers yellowish-green. 



