332 The Floivermg Plants of Western India. 



S. Konkan (D.). Deccan peninsula (H.}. The size of the flowers and 

 the lobes of the lip are very variable (#.). 



11. H. Lawii (Peristylus, L., D.). Stem slender, with 3 or 

 4 leaves, elliptic or lanceolate, flowers very small, sepals 

 narrower than petals, lip with* 3 equal lobes, spur short and 

 bladdery. 



Lanoli. Belgaum (D.). Konkan and Mysore (H".). H. gives the 

 flowers as yellow ; I noted sepals brown, petals white. 



* H. Stocksii, stem rather stout, 6 to 18 inches high, leaves obovate 

 or elliptic, spike twisted, flowers on one side, yellowish, petals ovate 

 obtuse, fleshy, lateral lobes of the lip incurved, claw broad, concave, 

 spur as long as the sepals. Not in D. or G. Konkan and Mysore 

 (H.), not elsewhere. *H. Wightii (Peristylus elatus, D.). Stem one 

 or two feet .high, rather stout, leaves oblong, lanceolate, flowers 

 greenish, crowded, dorsal sepal and petals broad, roundish, lip 

 almost entire, shorter than the sepals, spur spheroidal. Mai wan (D.) 



D. had two species which U. cannot identify : * H. Caranjensis, 

 flowers small, yellow, upper sepal rounded, petals half ovate, obtuse, 

 mid-lobe of lip oblong, side-lobes shorter, truncate, spur club shaped, 

 shorter than the ovary ; Caranjah ; and *H. modesta, stem leafy at 

 the base, flowers greenish-white, mid-lobe of the lip oval, shorter, 

 cohering with the tip of the petals and upper sepals, and concealing 

 the column, side-lobes linear lanceolate, spreading ; spur filiform, a 

 little longer than the ovary. Salsette. 



I have no means of giving a list of orchids introduced into Bombay 

 gardens and verandahs, of which there must be a great number. 



Of useful products of plants of this order there seems to be only 

 two : Vanilla, from the fleshy pod-like fruit of some species of the 

 climbing genus Vanilla; one of these, F. aromatica, is said by D. to 

 do well in Deccan gardens. H. has five species, mostly belonging to 

 the south of India. The other product is Saloop, a nutritious 

 starchy substance made from the roots of tubers of various species 

 of Orchis, EulopTiia, and probably other genera. It is known in 

 England, and on this side of India is called Sdlap misri. It is made 

 from one species which grows commonly at Dapoli, but my note about 

 it is not forthcoming. 



ORDER 113. SCITAMINE^E. 



Herbs often large, rarely with woody stem ; leaves simple, 

 often radical, pinnately nerved from a midrib ; flowers irregular, 

 hermaphrodite (except Musa), arising generally from mem- 

 branous spathaceous bracts, sepals free or tubular, sometimes 

 spathaceous ; corolla tubular with 3-partite limb ; stamens 

 (except in Musece) one, with 5-petaloid staminodes ; ovary 

 inferior 3-celled, or imperfectly so, style slender, stigma entire, 

 fruit usually a 3-celled capsule. 



