Order 112. Orchidecz. 331 



Lanoli. Wari country and Ghauts (D.~). 



* H. subpubens (H. Candida, D.), perhaps only a form of this, but 

 more slender, leaves linear, flowers white, lip spathulate, clawed, 

 trifid (H.}. S. Konkan (D. and H.}. Mahableshwar (Cooke). 



8. H. marginata. Eight inches to a foot high, leaves near 

 the base, ovate with whitish margins, racemes dense, flowers 

 yellow, sepals and petals about the same length, lip longer, 

 mid-lobe obtuse, shorter than the linear side-lobes, spur short 

 and stout. 



Bandora and Dapoli. Caranjah and Ghauts about Junar (D.). S. 

 Konkan ((?.). The margins of the leaves in my specimens were very 

 slight. 



* H. flavescens, perhaps only a form of this, but a much more 

 slender plant, turning yellow, with fewer and smaller flowers, and a 

 distinctly beaked ovary (if.). Not in D. or G. The Konkan (Law}, 

 and known to no one else (fl".). 



9. * J9T. crassifotia (Platanthera "brachyphylla^ D.). Six 

 inches to a foot high, leaves 2, radical, roundish, fleshy, scape 

 with many sheaths, flowers many, small, white or greenish, 

 sepals and petals short and broad, lobes of lip about equal, 

 linear oblong obtuse, spur equal to the beaked ovary. 



High hills about Junar (Z).). From the Konkan to the Nilghiris, 

 common (#.). 



* H. affinis, one or two feet high, stem stout with many erect 

 lanceolate sheaths, leaves large lanceolate, spikes long cylindric, 

 flowers green, lip long, side-lobes longest, spur half as long as the 

 ovary, slender incurved. Konkan and Canara (ff.). Not in D. or G. 

 * H. viridifolia (Cceloglotsum luteum, D.), leaves radical, linear acumi- 

 nate, spike very slender, many-flowered, flowers small greenish- 

 yellow, lip longer than the sepals, lobes slender, variable in length, 

 spur about as long as the beaked ovary. Near Malwan (D.). * H. 

 diphylla, scape six inches high with many sheaths, leaves two, radical, 

 round cordate margined, pressed flat on the ground, flowers greenish, 

 sepals broader than petals, lobes of the lip filiform, lateral ones 

 longest, spur about equal to the ovary. S. Konkan (1?.). 



DIVISION B. Section 5. Petals entire, lip usually trifid ; 

 flowers usually very small, spur usually very short or saccate. 

 The leaves in the species here given are collected about the 

 middle of the stem. 



10. * H. Goody eroides (Peristylus } G., D.). Stem stout, 

 one or two feet high, leaves elliptic, lanceolate, spike long, 

 dense, flowers yellowish- green or white, lateral sepals oblong 

 obtuse, lip as long, recurved, spur minute. 



