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acute, plicate, occupying the lower part of the stem ; stem slender, 

 1 to 2-flowered ; flowers long-peduncled, bracteated ; bracts 

 convolute oval, acute, usually shorter than the peduncle; petals 

 oval, oblong, acuminate, with a longer linear appendage ; lip 

 3-parted ; lateral segments the longest, linear subulate, somewhat 

 spreading ; spur longer than the ovary ; flowers white. Southern 

 Concan. 



13. H CRINIFERA, Lind. 3 to 5 inches high; radical leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate ; raceme few-flowered ; bracts acuminate, about 

 one-third the length of the ovary ; lip 4-times longer than the sepals, 

 unginculate at the base ; limb 4-parted ; lobes dentate, with 

 subulate apices ; flowers white. Near Vingorla, and on trees at 

 the Ram Ghaut. 



17. CCELOGLOSSUM. 



1. C LUTEUM, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, 263. Leaves few, 

 linear, acuminate, congested near the base ; scape clothed with 

 a few ovate-acuminate scales ; spike very slender, many-flowered ; 

 bracts acuminate, half the length of the ovary ; lip tripartite, callous 

 at the base ; lateral segments filiform, twice the length of the 

 middle, tongue-shaped segment; spur filiform cylindric, as long 

 as the ovary. Near Malwan; flowers yellow, small, appear in 

 August. Syn. Habenaria peristyloides, Wight Ic. 1702. 



18. PLATANTHERA, Richard. 



1. P SUSANNA, Lind. The giant Orchis, 3 to 4 feet high; 

 stem leafy, about 3 flowered ; leaves ovate oblong-acute, upper ones 

 cucullate, acuminate; sepals ovate-obtuse; lateral ones oblique, 

 upper one rhomboid ; petals linear acute; lip 3-parted; lateral lobes 

 truncate pectinate ; middle one linear ; spur double its length ; 

 flowers very large, white. Concans and Ghauts in several places, 

 but nowhere abundant. Syn. Flos. susannaB, Rumph ; Habenaria 

 Susannas, R. Br. ; Orchis gigantea, Smith Exot. Bot. t. 100; 

 Hook. Bot. Mag. 3374; Wight Ic. 920. 



2. P BRACHYPHYLLA, Lind. Leaves 2, radical, fleshy, reni- 

 form-orbicular ; scape clothed with acuminate scales ; bracts ovate- 

 acuminate cuculate, as long as the flowers ; sepals ovate roundish, 

 upper ones obtuse, lateral ones acute ; petals smaller ovate ; lip 

 deeply 3 cleft, shorter than the sepals, 3 times shorter than the 

 clavate spur; ovary beaked ; flowers white ; spur greenish. On the 

 high hills around Jooneer ; flowers in June and July. Wight 

 Ic. 1694. 



