260 



flowered ; scales broadly obovate, rounded at the apex, shining, 

 smooth ; flowers yellow. In salt marshes in the South Concan ; near 

 Raree Fort. Rheed. Mai. ix, t. 7. 



CXLI. ORCHIDACE.E. 



1. OBERONIA, Lindley. 



1. O RECURVA, Lind. A small, stemless plant; leaves bifa- 

 rious, fleshy, short acute ; raceme recurved, many flowered ; petals 

 obovate, subdentate ; lip subrotund, 4-lobed ; lobes erose, denti- 

 culate ; flowers minute, brick-red. Bot. Reg. 1839, p 14, Misc. 

 On trees on the Ghauts. 



2. O LINDLEYANA, Wight Ic. 1624. Much larger than the 

 preceding; leaves ensiform, short, fleshy, brown, slightly falcate; 

 stem compressed ; spike drooping towards the apex, densely covered 

 with innumerable small, sessile flowers; sepals broad-ovate obtuse, 

 entire; petals narrow-linear; lip 2-lobed at the apex; flowers 

 straw-coloured ; lip dull-orange. On trees on the Ghauts. The 

 free, spherical, reticulate, hollow cells in the leaves of this plant 

 are curious and beautiful objects. 



2. MICROSTYLIS, Nuttal. 



1. M RHEEDEI, Lind. Gen. and Sp. Orch. Stem leafy; leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate, plaited ; flowers in a long, slender spike, 

 purplish ; lip truncated, dentate, largely overlapping at the base. 

 Wight Ic. 902. In the Southern Concan ; flowers in June. Syn. 

 Malaxis rheedei, Willd. ; Epidendrum resupinatum, Forst. 



3. DENDROBIUM, Swartz. 



1. D LAWANUM, Lindl. in Proc. Linn. Soc. iii, p 10. Young 

 stems fleshy, ascending ; leaves membranaceous, lanceolate-acute ; 

 flowering-stem leafless, concealed under lax, membranaceous, 

 sheaths ; sepals and petals ovate, rather obtuse ; lip a little larger, 

 of the same shape, concave; flowers in pairs, of a beautiful shining 

 rose-colour. On trees on the Ghauts to the south. Syn. Dendro- 

 chilum roseum, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iv, p 291 ; flowers in 

 the cold season. 



2. D MACR^I, Lind. Gen. and Sp. Orch., No. 3. A large, 

 much-branched plant; stems many, long and pendulous, knotty, 

 and with many oblong pseudo-bulbs ; leaf 1, terminal, short-oblong, 

 on the terminating pseudo-bulb ; flowers solitary at the base of the 

 leaf, one in front and one behind, small, white ; middle lobe of the 

 lip much dilated, and the disk with 2 longitudinal fleshy crests. 



