264 



the Ghauts; flowers greenish-white. Syn. Micropera viridiflora, 

 Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, 282 ; the lip is beautifully painted 

 with white and rose-colour, 



3. S PAPILLOSUM, Lind. Bot. Reg. t. 1552. Leaves strap- 

 shaped, unequally 2-lobed at the apex ; peduncles much shorter 

 than the leaves ; sepals and petals subspathulate ; sepals equal, 

 larger than the petals ; lip 3-lobed ; lateral lobes short-obtuse, middle 

 one suborbicular, saccate at the base ; flowers yellow, transversely 

 streaked with purple; lip white, transversely streaked with rose- 

 colour; flowers very stiff and fleshy. Exceedingly common in the 

 Concan. Syn. Aeridesundulatum, Smith ; Cymbidum praemorsum, 

 Swartz ; Epidendrum praemorsum, Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 43; Vanda 

 wightiana, Wight Ic. 1670. 



4. S KUBRUM, Lind. Leaves channelled, bowed, bidentate at 

 the apex ; racemes erect, many-flowered ; sepals and petals ovate- 

 obtuse; spur cylindrical-obtuse, incurved; laminae oval-acuminate, 

 fleshy at the apex, bicorniculate at the base ; flowers deep rose- 

 coloured ; leaves mottled with purple, pale on the under surface ; 

 flowers, like most other Orchids, in the rainy season. Salsette, 

 pretty common. 



10. SARCANTHUS, Lind. 



1. S PENINSULARIS, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, p 343. 

 Stem simple, terete, flexuose, leafy, pendulous ; leaves linear-acumi- 

 nate, thick, coriaceous, a little 3-edged ; racemes opposite the 

 leaves, and half their length ; spur as long as the flower, horn-like, 

 obtuse pendulous, completely bilocular; the throat closed by 2 

 tubercles ; lip short, entire, ovate, obtuse, thick, fleshy, erect, painted 

 with white and violet. On trees near Virdee, in the Warree Coun- 

 try ; flowers in July and August. Syn. S pauciflorus, Wight Ic. 

 1747. 



11. EULOPHIA, R. Br. 



1. E BICOLOR, Dalz. loc. cit. p 43. Root like a small potato; 

 leaves 2 to 3, linear-lanceolate acute, with many folds coming after 

 the flowers ; scape a foot and a-half high, longer than the leaves, 

 with 9 to 10 rather distant flowers, which are either purple or 

 yellowish-green ; sepals linear-oblong, acute, 7-nerved ; petals 

 oblong-obtuse, shorter than the sepals, 3-nerved in the middle ; lip 

 obtuse saccate, 3-lobed ; lateral lobes short, flat, erect ; middle one 

 elongated, recurved, with crisp margins, with 10 crested veins on 

 the disk. On the Ghauts ; flowers in June. Native name " Am- 

 berkund." Wight Ic. 1690(7). 



2. E PRATENSIS, Lindl. in Jour. Proc. Linn. Soc. iii, p 25. 

 Leafless ; stem-sheaths about 5, very acute ; raceme lax, many- 



