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Chorla Ghaut. Grows everywhere, from Siberia to New Zealand, 

 and most probably the same as the European species ^Estivalis. 



22. CHE1ROSTYLIS, Blume. 



1. C FLABELLATA, Wight Ic. 1727. Leaves brownish, ovate, 

 3-nerved, acute, reticulately veined ; scape pilose, few- flowered at 

 the apex; lip orbicular, limb-spreading, deeply 2-cleft ; lobes 

 digitately 4 to 5-cleft, claw with 2 callosities at the base ; flowers 

 white ; the leaves are almost transparent, and most beautifully 

 veined. Chorla Ghaut. Syn. Goody era flabellata, Richard in 

 Ann. Soc. Nat. xv, t 12. 



23. MONOCHILUS, Wallich. 



1. M LONGILABRIS, Lind. Gen. and Sp. Orch. p 486. Stem 

 pilose ; leaves ovate, petioled, nerved ; scape furnished with some 

 sheathing scales ; spike secund, few-flowered ; bracts roundish, 

 cucullate, acuminate, membranaceous, as long as the pubescent 

 ovary ; sepals ovate-acute ; petals rounded at the apex, lobes of the 

 lip oblong, coarsely crenate, with 2 involute, subulate callosities ; 

 flowers white. On Chorla Ghaut, along with the preceding. Syn. 

 M affinis, Wight Ic. 1728. 



CXLII. MARANTACE.E. 

 1. PHRYNIUM, Willd. 



1. CAPITATUM, Willd. sp. i, 17. Root tuberous, stem none; 

 leaves radical, long-petioled, oblong-entire, smooth on both sides, 

 6 to 1 8 inches long ; petioles longer than the leaves, slender and 

 round, flower-bearing ; flowers numerous, collected into a pretty 

 large sessile head bursting from the anterior margin of the jointed 

 petioles, of a pale rose-colour. Common in shady jungles in the 

 Concan. 



CXLIII. BURMANNIACE.E. 

 1. BURMANNIA. 



1. TRIFLORA, Roxb. Fl. Ind/ ii, 117. Flowers 1 to 3, in a 

 terminal head ; scape 4 to 6 inches high, filiform quadrangular, with 

 3 to 4 remote stem-clasping pointed bracts ; flowers about three- 

 fourths of an inch in length, of a beautiful purple ; wings of the 

 perianth semi-oval. At the hot-springs near Mahar. No leaves 

 were found on this plant. 



