86 MALAXIDEZ. 
concave, entire or slightly erose at the apex, aud with a deep depression at the base just 
under the column. Capsule short, turgid, often gibbous. King & Pantl. in Ann. 
Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, p. 4, plate 3. 
Common on the trunks of trees in Dehra Dun, and on ET outer ranges from 
Mussoorie to Kumaon, up to 4,000 feet; extending 91 to Sikkim and the Khasia 
Hills. It flowers during the old season. 
2. OBERONIA Ғатсохеві Hook f. Ic. Plant. t. 1780; Fl. Br. Ind. v, 678. 
Stems short. eaves 2°5—7 cm. long, straight or faleate, acute, coriaceous." Peduncle 
of inflorescence much shorter than the leaves, terete, bracteate. Racemes erect or decurved, 
overtopping the leaves; the rachis stout, deeply grooved in fruit. Floral bract longer 
than the ovary, oblong or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, serrulate, membranous, very 
pale green. Flowers very small, shortly pedicelled, Sepals ovate, acute, reflexed. Petals 
falcately lanceolate, obtuse, a little longer and narrower than the sepals, spreading. 
Lip oblong or subquadrate, upper surface glistening with many scattered gland-like 
specks ; lateral lobes small, with truncate or emarginate tips, the apex with two small 
incurved obtuse lobes separated by а broad sinus.  An/her obovate, its lip emarginate. 
Capsules shortly pedicelled. О. iridifolia Wall. Cat. 1948 (1 and 3). 
Common in Dehra Dun, chiefly оп mango trees, and on the outer ranges between 
the Jumna and the Ganges up to 3,500 feet; flowering during September. It extends 
eastwards to Sikkim and the Khasia Hills, and occurs also in Behar, Chota Nagpur 
and in the Konkan. 
The sepals and petals are brownish-yellow, and the lip is green. According to Sir Joseph Hooker 
this species is nearly allied to О. pyrulifera Lindl., but is more robust, with shorter and broader leaves, 
and with short lateral lobes or shoulders to the lip, the terminal lobes of which are short and distant, 
Prate 94. Oberonia Falconeri Hook. f—A plant,—of natural size. Fig. 1, front view 
of a flower; 2, lip; 3, anther; 4, pollinia;—a// enlarged. 
3. (ОВЕВОМА ENSIFoRMIS Lindl. Fol. Orch. Oberonia, p. 4. 
Stems 7—8 cm. Leaves linear-ensiform, acuminate, faleate, 7—99 cm. long and 
1—2 cm. broad. Inflorescence erect, shorter than the leaves, subtruncate; its peduncle 
5--7:6 cm. long and bearing numerous minute lanceolate appressed pale bracteoles ; 
raceme about twice as long as the peduncle, its rachis thick, fleshy, terete; floral bract 
longer than the ovary, convolute, ovate-rotund, sub-acute, erose. Flowers 2 mm, long, 
pale brown, not at all sunk in the rachis, Sepals subequal, broadly ovate, sub-acute, 
entire, not ciliolate, reflexed, Petals ovate, sub-acute, stiffly pubescent, the edges entire 
and ciliolate. Lip twice as long as the sepals, 3-lobed, with two large rounded entire 
basal lobes; mesochile subquadrate, smooth, slightly concave, bearing on its edges two 
large projecting blister-like processes; terminal lobe obreniform, with two rounded 
lobules, separated by а broad subquadrate apical sinus; the whole surface and margins 
of the lip, except the smooth mesochile, clothed with stiff hairs. Hook. f. Fl. Br. 
Ind v, 679; King & Pantl in Aun. Roy. Bot. Gard. Cale. Vol. тш, p. 9, plate 9. 
