270 



19. PERISTYLUS, Blume. 



1. P GOODYEROIDES, Lind. Stem 12 to 18 inches high, erect, 

 round, leafy, the upper ones gradually increasing in size; flowers 

 small, white, in a densely-crowded spike, furnished with lanceolate 

 bracts. South Concan ; flowers in the rains. Syn. Habenaria goody- 

 eroides, Spr. syst. iii, p 690 ; Bot. Mag. 3397. 



2. P LAWII, R. Wight Ic. 1695. Stem loosely vaginate at the 

 base, 3 to 4-leaved in the middle, above naked; leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate acute ; scape longer than the leaves, slender ; sepals 

 linear-lanceolate, obtuse, narrower than the petals; lip equalling the 

 sepals, 3-lobed at the apex ; lobes all equal; spur short, bladdery. 

 Belgaum. 



3. P ELATUS, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, p 344. 1 foot 

 high, as thick as a swan's quill ; stem vaginate at the base, leafy 

 in the middle ; leaves few, spreading, elliptic, lower ones obtuse, 

 amplexicaul, upper longer acute, with a callous mucro, all shorter 

 than the scape, abruptly going off into acuminate scales; upper sepal 

 rounded ; lateral oblong, cucullate at the apex, with a mucro on the 

 back ; petals longer, lip almost entire, rounded, like the petals ; spur 

 spheroidal, scrotifoi m ; bracts lanceolate-acuminate, longer than the 

 flower; spike cylindric, many-flowered; flowers small, crowded; 

 leaves 5 to 7 inches long, 2| to 3 broad. Mai wan; flowers in 

 July. 



20. POGON1A, Juss. 



1. P CARINATA, Lind. Root a subglobular white bulb ; leaf 

 appearing after the flowers, radical, solitary, cordate, smooth, 

 7-nerved ; scape with 1 to 2 sheaths, bearing at the apex a raceme 

 of many flowers ; flowers large, sepals and petals unilateral, linear- 

 lanceolate, pale-green ; lip rhomboid subtrilobate, middle lobe 

 crenate, with purple veins and spots on a pale greenish-yellow 

 ground ; capsule oval, 6-winged. Common in the Concan Jungles. 



2. P FLABELLIFORMIS, Lind. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 415. Leaf 

 somewhat like that of the preceding, but with many folds, like that 

 of the Borassus. We have never seen the flowers, which appear 

 in the rains ; found in the densest and shadiest thickets of the 

 Concan, also near Dharwar. 



21. SPIRANTHES, Lind. 



1. S AUSTRALIS, Lind. Radical and cauline leaves linear or 

 linear-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, sometimes ensiform ; flowers spi- 

 ral, glabrous, or pubescent ; bracts ovate, longer than the ovary ; lip 

 oblong, dilated at the apex, crisp, pubescent above ; flowers white. 



