460 xxxii . GERANIACE^:. ( Balsamineoe, Hook, f.) [Impatient. 



A vi. EPIPHYTIC ^E. 



58. I. Jerdoniae, Wight Ic. t. 1602 ; epiphytic, glabrous, stem tumid 

 short stout prostrate, leaves few petioled elliptic acute serrate, peduncles 

 short, pedicels 1-3 very long, bracts setaceous, sepals long lanceolate, 

 standard small hooded, wings small 2-lobed, spur very large saccate ventri- 

 cose wrinkled, spur short horn-like or 0. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4739; //./. 

 <& T. in Journ. Linn. Hoc. iv. 141. 



Mountains of MALABAR, on trees at Sisparah, the Brahmagherrie and Palghat hills, 

 alt. 3- 5000ft., Wight, &c. 



Stem 3-6 in., green or purple-brown, often as thick as the finger, rooting. Leaves 

 2-3 in., deep green, with glandular cilia at the base and on the top of the stout petiole, 

 nerves few. Peduncles 1-3 in , green, stout ; pedicels sometimes 4 in., red. 7 

 1^-2 in. measured along the lip; sepals acuminate, uivn ; standard yell >w, orbicular, 

 apiculate, narrowly winded at the back; wiii^s yellow, almost included! in the lip, lobes 

 rounded overlapping; lip bright red, laterally compressed. In flower closely allied to 

 1. J r<///,v //. 1 have seen no specimen of Beddome's I. jmiaxitn-n ; his character of 



specmen 



it accords with that of /. Jerdonite in all but the green colour of the standard and 

 sepals, and the moniliform stem. I shall therefore provisionally add it to this as a 

 variety. 



VAR. ; stem moniliform, standard with a foliaceous crest and en. I. para- 



sitica, Bedd. in Madr. Jour. iv. t. 7, f. 2 ; Ic. PL Ind. Or. 28, t. 140. Anauiallay 

 hills, alt. 6-7000 ft., Btddome. 



59. I. auriculata, Wight in Madr. Journ. v. 8, t. 3 ; epiphytic, gla- 

 brous, stem short prostrate inteniodes very tumid, loaves petioled elliptic 

 acute, peduncle short, pedicels 1-3 erect very long, bracts ovate, sepals very 

 large ooliquely oblong pendulous red, standard small hooded, wings very 

 small 2-lobed, lip very large saccate wrinkled, spur short thick. 



Mountains of MALANAR and TRAVAXCOR, alt. 5000 ft., on branches of trees, Wight, &c. 



A smaller plant than /. Jertlonite, with the internodes much swollen, sonietiine-s as 

 large as nuts, the stem appearing annulate in dried specimens. Lt:r.<'X 1 -'J in , 

 obscurely crenulate, with but fe\v glandular setae at the lias.'. /',</,'< Is 1^1^ in. 7 

 1 in. measured alon^ the lip ; sepals verv remarkable, pendulous, acuie, much exceeding 

 the wings, and sometiim-s as loiii; as the lip, scarlet; standard dark peeii ; win^s dark 

 purple, the segments coehleate and overlapping; lip scarlet, laterally eoiiip 

 spur very variable. Ci>xulc. unknown. The sepals of this species are wholly diil'ereut 

 from any other in the genus, and han.j down like a spaniel's ears. 



60. X. viridiflora, Wight in Madr. Journ. v. 9 ; erect, glabrous, epi- 

 phytic, stem short extremely thick, branches few short nodose, leaves 

 petioled elliptic acute eremite-serrate, peduncles short, pedicels 1-2 slender, 

 sepals linear, standard orbicular 2-lobed back strongly keeled, lip saccate 

 narrowed into a stout involute spur. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. 29, t. 141. 



Mountains of MALABAR; forming masses on the trunks of trees at the Sivagherry 

 ghat, alt. 5000 ft., Witjht. 



Stem ofien 1 in. diani.. fleshy. Leaves 1^-2 in., sometimes obovate or lanceolate, 

 with very few glandular cilia at the base, rather fleshy, crenatures large ; petiole stout. 

 Peduncle }-$ m., usually 2 -flowered ; bracts subulate. Flowers 1 in. measured along 

 the lip, wholly green ; sepals reflexed or deflexed, acuminate ; standard small, deeply 

 hooded ; wings fleshy, 2-lobed, lateral lobes hid under the standard, terminal oblong 

 rounded ; lip wrinkled, laterally compressed. Capsule glabrous. 



